Cereal hurdles

Making a start on the Ausfood front has given me an insight into some of the difficulties ahead.

Let's look at the muesli  I make up, on a regular basis, for breakfast each morning.  I've been using this recipe for years now and although it may not be the most exciting muesli on the face of the earth it suits me. It is based on a recipe from Sandra Cabot's book "The X Syndrome" and in theory it is designed to help with a weight problem.  No doubt it would, if only I kept to the rest of the program.

However I digress.

The breakfast muesli is made up of the following ingredients:

• rolled oats
• processed bran
• oat bran
• rice bran
• natural sultanas
• dried apricots
• chopped almonds
• pepitas
• sunflower seeds

Due to the irritation factor when chopping up the dried apricots, which stick to the knife and the equally irritating almonds that jump all over the place when I chop them, these two items only make the cut on that rare occasion when all the planets are in the right alignment.

First I will deal with cereal component of the muesli - the rest I will deal with at a later time. This search will take place within walking distance of the Trash Palace. I will be looking in the local Red and Green supermarkets and the two local second-tier supermarkets.

This promises to be time consuming. I am confident about walking straight to the areas where I will find rolled oats and oat bran in all the afore-mentioned supermarkets but I am not so confident about finding the bran cereal or the rice bran cereal.

All this could lead to a great deal of to-ing and fro-ing, flouncing about and gnashing of teeth.