Reviewed: Sep. 5, 2008

This is so fabulous! since I dont personally dont like raisin, so I used dried apricot instead and I also substituted walnut with Brazil Nut. To my personal taste, I love it to be more sweeter so I added extra 4 tbs of brown sugar. Nice crunchy texture and a goodie which is guilty-free to eat.

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Reviewed: Aug. 29, 2008

This was a great and easy recipe. I love the nutritional value of the whole grains. This made a HUGE amount of granola, which I love! I would offer a couple of suggestions: First, stir in the vanilla to the syrup after it has come to a boil. Remember to take it off the heat and be careful of any splatter from the alcohol cooking off. This will help retain that yummy vanilla flavor. Second: Add the Cinnamon to the dry ingredients instead of the syrup. Don't be afraid to mix everything up in an oversized bowl with your hands before the hot syrup goes in, a great way to involve the kids in the kitchen . . . I used my 12 qt. stock pot. I love this on yogurt, as a cereal, or in cookies! It was so easy and forgiving. I also added shredded coconut for texture and flavor. Thanks for a great recipe!

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chrismturner

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Reviewed: Aug. 27, 2008

The mixture of honey, syrup and brown sugar was perfect for the amount of dry ingredients. Just the right sweetness for my taste. I was concerned that it was such a large quantity that it would not be sufficiently dry when stored in an air tight container. I baked it 10 minutes longer than recipe called for and it was wonderfully toasty. I think I will take one of trays out at 20 minutes next time just to see the difference. I used different types of nuts that I had in the freezer and also a variety of dried fruits. I think you can be very creative with those ingredients. I also added double the amount of cinnamon and vanilla. This will be my preferred granola recipe from now on. Thanks.

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Reviewed: Aug. 26, 2008

This stuff is amazing. I mean, I made all 30 servings and ate 1/3 and gave the other 2/3 away in one week because it was so good I wanted to share w/everyone. I left out the raisins/cranberries b/c I don't like them, but used sugar free maple syrup, organic oat bran & wheat germ, etc, and it didn't sacrifice any of the taste. A friend I gave some to asked me if it was loaded with butter and I had to break the news to her that it was completely guiltless.

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Reviewed: Aug. 21, 2008

I love this stuff! Have made it several times now. The last time I used regular rolled oats and not the quick cooking. Much better texture. Also increased the maple syrup to 1/2 cup, honey to 1 cup and brown sugar to 3/4 cup. (Ok, so I like it a little sweeter!) Also used dried cherries for the fruit. This was the best batch ever.

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Reviewed: Aug. 21, 2008

Awesome recipe! I used Poppyseed's suggestions and used half olive oil and half apple sauce in place of veggie oil, yummy! Like many others this was my first attempt at granola and it was a success, great recipe! Thanks!

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Reviewed: Aug. 18, 2008

This is my first attempt at making granola. I think it was awsome! The advice of others to watch it carefully is right on, I kept my timer on and watched it, and I still burned some of it, which is such a waste of time and ingredients. I've been having it in the morning with vanilla soy milk, excellent!!!

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MaryAnne aka Anne's daughter

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Reviewed: Aug. 17, 2008

Yum! This was great. I left out the brown sugar and it was still nicely sweet. I subbed the oil for coconut oil as another reviewer suggested with great results! Will make again, thanks.

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Reviewed: Aug. 14, 2008

I make this all the time because it magically vanishes in our house!! This is addictive! The proportions work very well, and of course, substitutions are easily made. I use whatever nuts we have on hand. Craisins are delicious, as well as any other dried fruit you like. I also like to sub a cup or two of cheerios or special K for the oat bran to give another dimension to the granola. **Note** to get the granola to chunk, BOIL the sugar/oil mixture (I just put it in a large measuring cup and microwave it until it bubbles - less cleanup), then stir and bake as directed, but after it's toasty, pull it out and DON'T STIR ANY MORE. Let it cool. It should cool and form a large brick that can be broken into satisfying chunks. Then sprinkle the fruit into the container with the granola. **Also, for those trying to skimp, you can sub applesauce for oil/ fake sugar/ yada yada and it will taste alright but it will NOT be as crispy and scrumptious. If you're going to go to the trouble, make the good stuff and follow this recipe. It's healthy and oh so good. Seriously. Try this recipe!

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Mirby

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Reviewed: Aug. 12, 2008

This was great! I halfed the recipe and it still made an enormous quanitity. It worked perfectly. Easy recipe.

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Reviewed: Aug. 2, 2008

In my oven, I bake it 20 minutes at 300'. Excellent recipe.

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Reviewed: Jul. 29, 2008

I made this recipe but it wasn't very crispy. I threw it into my dehydrator for a few hours and voila! Perfect!

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Reviewed: Jul. 29, 2008

Was missing some ingredients in my pantry but still turned out great! Didnt have any maple syrup so I just added extra honey. Excellent recipe!! Yummo homemade granola! Thanks for sharing

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Reviewed: Jul. 28, 2008

Breakfast of champions! I love this recipe! Since this recipe makes a huge amount I cut the entire thing in half and still ended up with a big batch. I did make a few minor alterations such as reducing the amount of oil, brown sugar, maple syrup and honey because I don't like sweet cereals. In the past I tried a granola recipe that came out heavy, oily and gross so that is why I reduced the oil by a few Tbsp. On the advice of another cook I added about 1/2 cup of unsweetened shredded coconut and it was so good! I think if I had used sweetened coconut it would have been overpowering but the unsweetened was perfect. One reviewer said the recipe is a bit pricey and it can be if you purchase everything in packages. If you go to a health food store such as Whole Foods (my favorite) you can buy all the dry ingredients in bulk. Rolled oats in bulk were $0.99/pound while a container that was about a pound was $2.99. Big difference! The great thing about bulk..you only buy what you need so bring a cup measure to the store if you have trouble eyeballing the amounts. I have never wanted to eat more than one bowl of cereal for breakfast in my entire life until I came across this recipe. Try it, you will never eat boxed cereal again! Thanks for sharing!

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krista v.

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Reviewed: Jul. 22, 2008

This is the best granola i've had. thanks for the recipe! be careful though-this makes a TON!

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Dana

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Reviewed: Jul. 17, 2008

Very good granola recipe! I'll admit I added more dried goods so that I wasn't dealing with something too sweet to be healthy, but it was delicious!

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Reviewed: Jul. 15, 2008

Pretty good! As others suggested, I cut the oil in 1/2 and used 1/2c applesauce to decrease the oil as well as omit the brown sugar. Ran out of honey so I just used maple syrup in it's place. This actually took more like 30-40 min to cook. Very filling and just the right sweetness. Oh, I did increase the vanilla and cinnamon to 1 TBSP as I saw the review stating the recipe was posted incorrectly. Not too sweet, and makes A WHOLE LOT!

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Reviewed: Jul. 12, 2008

Wow! This is just amazing granola! I got sick of buying mine at the store at skyrocketing prices. The flavors are wonderful - cinnamon and syrup definitely add to it! Thanks so much! p.s. I cooked mine at 300 for 45 minutes, stirring every 20 minutes.

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Reviewed: Jul. 12, 2008

Not exactly what I was expecting. I was expecting a traditional tasting granola which this isn't. Saying that this recipe is very, very tasty. I scaled down the recpie to serve 10. It needed more quantities of wet ingredients. The granola turned out really crumbly, not great if you're eating it with milk! Not all was lost though. We used it to mix with yoghurts and I made a couple of crumbles. Will make again!

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Reviewed: Jul. 5, 2008

I thought I had all the ingredients but was missing the oat bran and still made it. This granola was very good and easy to make, but for some reason we didn't like the combo with the sunflower seeds so I will probably just leave them out next time and make sure I get some oat bran first! :) It also stores very nicely and is yummy with yogurt and on ice cream.

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