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I am so excited for strawberry season I can hardly stand it! I am quite sure that this past winter must have hit some sort of record book where I live for the longest winter ever.

I probably say that every year. But those long winters and slow to warm up springs bring us some of the best strawberry picking around. We hit up our local U-Pick every late June and pick some of the most beautiful, juicy strawberries you have ever seen! My goal is typically 40-ish pounds of strawberry picking. You can’t beat U-Pick pricing so I stock up and we rarely have to buy strawberries from a store during the year.

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So what do I do with all of those strawberries?!

I freeze a majority of them. They make perfect smoothies and additions to yogurt. But this year I wanted to try making store-able cereal with some of the strawberries. I took my plain, grain-free granola recipe that I make often using applesauce and raisins and swapped for strawberry puree and strawberries. I was more than impressed, and it was a hit with my family.

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I used Brazil nuts in the recipe as I am working on nourishing some thyroid issues through selenium since my last pregnancy. You can do an equal swap with a different nut variety if you want. If you are nut-free, you can swap the nuts for sunflower seeds or pumpkin seeds. Otherwise, the recipe should be quite allergen-friendly for all!

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My plan this June is to quadruple this batch that I am sharing with you today. Granola stores well in airtight containers or bags and I plan to store in the freezer with such a large quantity. It makes for quick pull out breakfasts on busy mornings. I will probably even store one bag way far back in the freezer so I forget about it until about January. What a treat to have summer strawberry cereal in the dead middle of winter! We usually enjoy ours with raw milk or in our raw yogurt. But if you are dairy-free, you can enjoy it with coconut milk or coconut yogurt. It is even super yummy just on its own!

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A quick note if you don’t have a dehydrator! Don’t make that stop you from making your own granola. I have only had a dehydrator for the last year, and before that, I made granola all the time. Just set the granola mixture on baking sheets in your oven at the lowest temp on a day where you are at home and can stir it around every so often. It works just as well, and if you make a big enough batch you only have to do it every so often. You can read more about using your oven as a dehydrator in this post.

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Strawberry Granola Cereal :: Gluten-Free, Grain-Free, Dairy-Free, Refined Sugar-Free

Yield: Approx. 10 Cups
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: 3 hours
Total Time: 3 hours 15 minutes

What a treat to have summer strawberry cereal in the dead middle of winter! We usually enjoy ours with raw milk or in our raw yogurt. But if you are dairy-free, you can enjoy it with coconut milk or coconut yogurt. It is even super yummy just on its own!

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. Before you make the cereal, you will want to soak your nuts or seeds to make them easier to digest. Put the chopped nuts in a medium bowl with the sea salt and fill the bowl with water until the nut mixture is covered completely. Let the bowl sit in a warm spot in your kitchen 8-12 hours (It is pretty cold where I live so I set them under the light in my oven in the winter). After soaking, simply strain out the water in a fine-mesh strainer and dump the nut mixture into a large mixing bowl to combine the rest of the ingredients. **I soaked my nuts during the day and then got the granola into the dehydrator overnight. You could also soak the nuts overnight and get them into the dehydrator during the day.
  2. Add the rest of the ingredients except the chopped strawberries, to the nut mixture in the large mixing bowl, and combine well.
  3. Fold in the chopped strawberries.
  4. Spread the granola mixture on your dehydrator trays and dry out according to your machine. I did mine at 135 degrees overnight. If you don’t have a dehydrator, you can still make this! Set your oven at the lowest temp and dry out over a few hours – you will want to do this during the day so you can keep an eye on them and stir the granola around a bit.
  5. After the granola is dried out, let it cool to room temperature, and then break it apart into the size pieces you want. I keep some bigger as that is how my hubby likes it for his yogurt breakfast at work. And I keep some quite small since I have little mouths eating it.
Nutrition Information:
Yield: 12 Serving Size: 1
Amount Per Serving: Calories: 19Total Fat: 0gSaturated Fat: 0gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 0gCholesterol: 0mgSodium: 1mgCarbohydrates: 4gFiber: 1gSugar: 3gProtein: 0g

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During my time on the AIP I learned a lot, but breakfasts were, by far, the hardest meals for me to plan out. I was an eggs-for-breakfast kind of gal and turns out, I react to eggs so those for sure had to go. What’s a gal to do when she’s had her favorite go-to breakfast taken away?

Get creative!

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