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Muesli

The muesli portion of this blog is from my first plant based diet attempt. Muesli is loosely defined, by me, as a mixture of dried add-ins with uncooked rolled oats. This dried mixture is not cooked, but soaked in a liquid such as oat milk and eaten cold.   There was a point in my first experiment when I was eating muesli 3 meals a day since it was filling, plant based, and easy. Hence the phrase "Body by Muesli." I started with a prepared mixture from Bob's Red Mill and then mixed my own. To this day my go to combination is oats, raisins, coconut shreds, sunflower seeds/ pecans, and sometimes puffed millet or rice. All of which are the versions without any added sugar. The raisins themselves lend enough sweetness to satiate my palate. I'll be honest, I am not much of a sweet tooth. I have found that if I soak a bowl of muesli in coconut milk or oat milk over night, it is also very delicious. The oats soak of the liquid and start having a soft cooked oatmeal texture. ...