06.29.10

It’s a muesli world.

Posted in General at 6:17 pm by Janet

There is one thing Dale and I disagree on.  Breakfast cereal.  He continues to extol the virtues of a big bowl of muesli every morning.  I answer back that my bowl of oatmeal is tastier and far healthier, at least for me. 

One of the things our mission taught us is that Europeans have a superior brand of muesli mix, and European yoghurts are better than American style yoghurt.  Oatmeal is oatmeal where ever you go.  After a year and a half of living in Germany and eating muesli virtually every morning we came back to the USA.  We brought back a bag of muesli mix mostly so we could make our own mix from stuff we could get here.  We have a very nice grocery coop where they have every kind of rolled grain imaginable.  But they didn’t have all we needed.  We had to travel to Utah to a Honeyville Farms store to find a big bag of a cereal that is very similar to the German kind.  He doctors it up with added sunflower and other seeds.  We buy it in 50 pound bags and haul it back to Washington in the car. 

Dale mixes up his muesli the night before using the mix adding his special blend of seeds and nuts and then stirring in lots of yoghurt.  The next morning he adds fresh fruit and a palmful of almonds to this concoction.  I know all of you out there are salivating at the thought, but I can guarantee that it doesn’t taste as good as it sounds.  On top of that it looks like something that somebody already ate and then threw up into a bowl. 

So how does it go over in the family?  There opinions are divided between the true Swiss and the one who married into Swissdom.  Most of the kids love the stuff, it is almost a craving with Leslie.  Kurt can take it or leave it.  I can’t stand the stuff, I detest it!  I would only eat it if there was nothing but road kill for breakfast (and only after thinking about it for a while).  So we decided that you have to be true Swiss in order to enjoy muesli.  But then I could be wrong, I don’t think either of Dale’s sisters would eat muesli.  They are as Swiss as their brother, one-half.

Why do I dislike muesli?  Two simple reasons.  I don’t like raw grains or flour, hence, I don’t eat raw dough, or batter of any kind.  Also, I am not a fan of yoghurt, at least American style.  German yoghurt is okay, probably because of a higher fat content, which I don’t need.  Mix the two together and what do you get?  Nasty raw grains with slimy yoghurt.  Blech.

For now I will eat my delicious cooked steel-cut oats for breakfast every day.  This week I am adding a teaspoon of real maple sugar for a change.  Next week maybe toasted walnuts.

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