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SUGAR-FREE GRANOLA

Learn how to make your own homemade sugar-free granola and always have something ready for breakfast. You can have it with fruit, yogurt, milk; it’s an easy and healthy solution for everyday life. Forget about industrial cereals and mueslis, buy natural nuts, sugar-free whole grain cereals, and add a few more ingredients to prepare different delicious mixes that will be the basis of your granola and some perfect energy bars to take with you. I don’t know if this happens to you, but when I wake up I’m not usually hungry and I don’t feel like eating anything solid. I like to drink water and coffee until my body asks for food. With this homemade sugar-free granola, you can vary your breakfasts and organize your week.

 

This isn’t usually a problem if I stay at home, but when I have to leave early, either for training or for work, the problem is that I get hungry and I don’t have my homemade preparations on hand.

I must say that over the years I have been coming up with different healthy snacks to take with me, I even have my tricks for ordering from the cafeteria without causing any problems, but even so, I consider it a challenge to have all those options “on the go” ready every week.

One way to achieve this is by planning in advance what you are going to need for the rest of the week, for example, on Saturday you start thinking about it, make the shopping list and prepare the ingredients, and on Sunday, when you have a little quiet time, you get to work work.

 

Spoonful of sugar-free granola

 

A healthy snack to take with you can be a boiled egg, a handful of nuts, some cheese tacos or a piece of fruit, without any further complications, but sometimes these basic options tire us out.

If you get saturated by always eating the same thing and more than once you have succumbed to buying a bar at the gym machine or have If you end up at the bar next door eating too much, you’ll love this sugar-free granola or the homemade bars made with it.

 

Use sugar-free granola to make your homemade bars, a perfect snack “on the go”.

 

Maybe you’re lucky enough to be able to have breakfast at home some days, then this sugar-free granola will add variety to your mornings, you’ll be able to broaden your horizons beyond the usual toast or yogurt.

When you go to make your granola or your bars to go, it is very important to calculate the appropriate quantities for the whole week and prepare the corresponding portions, it keeps well between 5 and 7 days, I don’t it would last longer, it can soften.

If you prepare this sugar-free granola at home and also make a few bars, I assure you that your level of happiness during the week will increase, even if it’s just a little just thinking that you already have your breakfasts and mid-morning snacks sorted.

I suppose you’ve already seen many recipes for homemade granolas and also cereal bars always with the label “healthy”, but when it comes down to it, they are not so much because they are rich in sugars, do not despair, you can get excellent results without using sugar of any kind, I assure you.

 

You can have your granola with yogurt, milk, fresh fruit, chocolate…

 

The problem is that “healthy” recipes are frequently promoted that contain a large amount of sugars and carbohydrates. They are usually based on whole grains, whole wheat flours, dried fruits and sweetened with syrups, maple, agave or even panela or honey.

What’s wrong with these recipes? that it cannot be said that their ingredients are harmful in themselves, nor can it be said that they are unhealthy, but they can be criticized for presenting themselves as “healthy recipes” and even “light”, because they are really not “for everyone”.

 

sugar-free granola with yogurt and fruit

 

And it is very common for overweight people, with pathologies chronic diseases, such as diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidemia, etc., in good faith because they are trying to take care of themselves, adopt them as part of their daily life and believe that they will help them feel better, but unfortunatelyObviously, that’s not the case.

To prevent this from happening, we need nutritional education and to tell things as they are, because I still detect a lot of lack of information around me.

 

Learn to replace the usual snacks with healthier homemade preparations.

 

A quick example: A few weeks ago, in a coffee shop in my town, my companion asked to have the packet of white sugar replaced with saccharin. The waitress went to get it and from the bar asked her, “Do you prefer saccharin or do you want brown sugar?”

It’s clear, right? In this case, my companion asked for the saccharin because he tries to avoid sugar, but with black coffee he still can’t, so he resorts to saccharin when is away from home.

But imagine that her problem had been diabetes, it is evident that the waitress does not know all the reasons why sugar should be avoided, but she also does not know that white sugar, brown sugar, panela and any syrup are metabolized in the same way.

She, the waitress, in good faith thought that brown sugar is healthier than saccharin and offered it as a better alternative, she was unable to understand that if someone asks you for saccharin it is because they DO NOT want sugar, whatever it is.

There are many anecdotes like this, and the only thing they reveal is a lot of ignorance regarding many foods, and without a doubt the group that takes the cake is sugar.

This is the result of years and years of indoctrination by the industry that have had their effect and are undoubtedly difficult to reverse.

There is a misconception that if sugar is not refined is better, that syrups are more “natural” and therefore healthier, and that honey, being a food full of interesting nutritional properties, I do not doubt that, is harmless and can be taken without worry.

 

Brown sugar, panela and syrups are not better than white sugar, they are the same.

 

This story is repeated with other foods, the paradigmatic case is flour, low quality refined white wheat flour seriously harms your health, low quality whole wheat flour too.

To prepare this granola you need some nuts and rolled oats, you also need a fatty ingredient, you can use butter or coconut oil if you want a vegan and dairy-free option.

To give this granola a sweet touch you can use a sugar substitute like erythritol which is calorie-free and does not affect our blood glucose levels, or you can add some dried fruit (raisins, cranberries) and fresh fruit at the time of consumption.

You can make different combinations, with grated coconut, with dark chocolate, with dehydrated apple, you can even make a salty granola to prepare salty bars that are can be eaten with cheese, olives, or ham.

 

bowl with sugar-free granola

 

Why I like these types of recipes

  • Low difficulty level, very easy to prepare.
  • It is very practical, it allows me to organize the week.
  • It keeps very well for a week, so that I make it on the weekend and forget about it.

Try this homemade granola with yogurt, milk, fresh fruit, dark chocolate…

 

You may be asking yourself some of the following questions:

  • This granola doesn’t have sugar, but… Does it have a lot of calories?

Are you still counting calories? It’s time you knew that calories are NOT the most important thing.

  • It’s definitely addictive and I have a hard time controlling myself.

Not at all, this granola is delicious, but it’s very filling and with the right amount you won’t want to eat more.

  • I don’t know how to consume it.

Exactly the same way you eat industrial breakfast cereals, with milk, with vegetable drink, with yogurt, with fresh fruit…

You have the recipe below, I hope you try it because it is easy to prepare, it is healthy and it will add energy to your breakfast so that you have fuel for hours.

 

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SUGAR-FREE GRANOLA

Learn how to prepare granola without sugar homemade barritas, a delicious and healthy takeaway snack.

  • 1/3 cup nuts ((30 g))
  • 1/3 cup pecans ((30 g))
  • 1/3 cup hazelnuts (340 g) g))
  • 1/4 cup grated coconut ((20 g))
  • 1/4 cup whole grain oats in soft cubes ((30 g))
  • 1 each natural pine nuts ((10 g))
  • 10 g melted butter

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  1. Preheat the oven to 180 oC for 10 min.

  2. Mix all the dry ingredients and pass them through the food processor, do not crush them completely to have the texture melted butter and mix everything.

  3. Put the mixture on a baking tray lined with paper so that it does not stick, spread all over the surface.

  4. Bake the mixture at 170ºC for 15 minutes, watching it continuously and stirring with a spoon to keep it moving burn around the edges, if you see it browning too much remove it earlier. As you know, I give you an approximate time, each oven is different.

  5. Let the granola cool and store it in a glass container, if it is airtight better.

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