Information Courtesy Chet Day, Healthy and Beyond Weekly

What a healthy and pleasant way to bust the sugar blues—MUESLI! First, a little history lesson for those of you who've never heard of Muesli, which is pronounced properly as 'mju:zli. (Oh, that was a big help, wasn't it?) Anyway, natural health physician Maximilian Bircher-Benner created Muesli for patients in his Swiss healing clinic around 1900.

A major part of Bircher-Benner's therapy involved the use of a diet featuring plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables. His healing diet was inspired by something he'd been served while hiking in the Alps, a food he called a "strange dish."

If you're old enough, you may remember when the cereal giants discovered Muesli in the 1960's and first started advertising their highly processed knock-off versions of the real thing. Well, serious performers in the natural health circus make their own Muesli, and we want to tell you exactly how to do it:

Healthy Raw Muesli
Go ahead and experiment with different ingredients for variety, but here's a good basic recipe to start with

1 cup organic rolled oats
1/2 cup organic rolled spelt
1/2 cup organic rolled triticale
1/2 cup organic rolled kamut or barley
1/4 cup chopped organic dates
1/4 cup organic raisins, currants, cherries, Goji
berries, or cranberries
1 dried organic apricot or pear, chopped (roll in oat
flour to prevent stickiness)
1/4 cup raw, whole, organic unblanched almonds
1/4 cup raw organic cashews
8-10 organic raw filberts
4 organic raw pecans

In a blender or spice/nut grinder, grind filberts and pecans into coarse crumbs or powder, depending on preference. Combine all ingredients in an airtight container. For each serving, place a heaping 1/3 cup in a bowl and top with your favorite healthy liquid (nut milk, raw milk, juice, etc.)

You're not going to find a muesli or breakfast cereal at the supermarket that could touch this recipe with a thirty-foot pole. In fact, you could sell this stuff at flea markets and probably earn a nice little supplemental income!