So today I wanted to take a kind of a fun day to show you one of my favorite recipes
for when I get a cereal craving, and if you know me at all, you know that cereal is one
of my huge weaknesses.
The more sugarier the better, captain crunch, cinnamon toast crunch, cookie crisp, cocoa
pebbles, fruity pebbles, all of them.
We can’t even buy them in this house actually because they go too quickly.
So I had to come up with an alternative and I use a Quest Bar.
So today we are going to be making my make shift cinnamon toast crunch.
Now you can do this with any of the bars really except I haven’t tried it with s’mores
and those ones don’t bake quite as well, so I would say not the s’mores, no s’mores
cereal.
But I prefer the cinnamon because there’s no chunks in it and so it rolls out, you’re
going to see we’re going to roll it out and it tends to work a little bit better.
But I have done it with the cookie dough to make cookie crisp before and it is delicious
but it takes a little more finagling to get through the chips.
So let’s do this.
All we are going to do is spray down, I know it sounds weird but I’m going to spray the
bar a little bit, and I’m going to spray the cutting board because it helps the rolling
pin not stick to it.
So we are going to roll it out until it is nice and flat.
Alright, so that’s probably pretty good.
Now we’re going to take our pizza cutter or you can use a regular knife, but this is
just a little bit easier and fancier, and we’re going to cut it into small pieces.
So I like to go all the way, round this way, it doesn’t have to be perfect, and the other
way as well.
And what I like to do, I’m just going to actually spray down my pan now and transfer
all those pieces onto the pan.
Doesn’t need to be perfect, just make sure they’re separated.
So you can see why doing the bars with the chunks would become a little more of an issue
because the chunks don’t roll out quite as easily but they are still delicious and
it will still work.
If you have ever baked a Quest Bar, then you know they expand when you bake most of them,
most of them expand when you bake them.
So we want to leave some space in between each of the cereal pieces, I mean it doesn’t
have to be perfect but they are going to grow.
So if they are too close they will grow and stick together and then you will have less
pieces of cereal, which who wants that.
You’re going through this much work to make the cereal, let’s make every piece count
right.
So now we are just going to bake these.
You can also broil them but usually when I make quest cereal I just bake them.
So about 400 degrees, just until it looks done I guess, I usually just kind of watch
it, we’ll see and I’ll let you know.
Thumbs up for cereal.
Alright so our cereal has been in for just about five minutes and look its nice and golden
brown and crisp and I’m going to let it cool a little bit before we take it off but.
Alright they are cool to the touch, if any of the pieces are kind of sticking together
you can just take them apart and I should try one now.
Mmmm, Crispy, crunchy and cinnamony.
Everything you need in a cereal.
So I’m going to put all of these in a bowl and they should be kind of firm.
You don’t want them to be soft at all so if they over bake, these aren’t over baked
at all, but if they do over bake a little bit, it’s fine.
You’ve got a good cup to a cup and a quarter, cup and a half of cereal there.
Which is a serving of cereal, right, but this is protein packed and guilt free because there’s
like 20 grams of protein in this and only what, like four net carbs.
So this is going to be awesome but we need some milk.
And you can make your pieces bigger if you don’t want to cut them so small but then
you get to eat less, so I like to make them smaller.
I’m adding a little cashew milk because I don’t have any almond milk right now,
I usually use cashew milk for smoothies and stuff because it is really creamy but anyways
this will work.
Look inside, look in there, look.
Cereal, time to eat, mmmm I look forward to this meal.
It’s really like my favorite way to eat a quest bar, it’s a little bit more work
but if I’m craving a bowl of cereal, this will totally do the trick.
And the pieces of quest bars absorb the milk like real cereal, so each bite is like crispy
soft and crunchy and sweet all at the same time.
Mmm delicious.
Alright, you totally ought to try it for yourself and if you do let me know and let me know
which flavor you tried it with.
So you’ve seen my very special quest cereal, now let’s talk about the January challenge.
You have made it to the very first Sunday, I know that doesn’t seem like much because
we just started a few days ago but it is still a great reason to be excited.
And I told you that every Sunday we will have a check in.
So it is check in day and today you can print off this PDF which is your accountability,
evaluation and you will have one every single week, so print it off, fill it out.
And I also want you to comment below to let me know how you’re doing.
Tell me what’s feeling good, what’s not feeling so good, maybe you need to adjust
some things to ensure success on your January resolution and goal.
So definitely let me know how it’s going, I will be going through all of those comments,
reading them, responding and I’m so excited to see all of you succeed.
So thank you guys so much for watching, I hope you enjoyed the vlog, please try the
cereal.
Please do the check in, comment below, let me know how all of those things go.
And share this video with someone who hasn’t joined our challenge yet.
I will see you tomorrow for another Kickstart video and you don’t want to miss it, hint,
it’s breakfast.