Back inside the muesli jar

I’ve returned to the muesli jar to take the lid off and investigate the final ingredients making up my breakfast muesli.

These ingredients are:

sunflower seeds

pepitas

dried apricots

chopped almonds

natural sultanas

The sunflower seeds and the pepitas are the major ingredients in the muesli after the cereals. Checking out the local supermarkets it came as no surprise to find that both these ingredients are imported and mostly from China.

The outcome of this finding might see the breakfast muesli go the way of the dodo during the Ausfood Challenge.

If I remove the rice cereal, pepitas and sunflower seeds I will be left with rolled oats, oat bran and bran cereal ; neither an inviting nor inspiring choice for starting off the day’s menu. I will have to extend my search and do it quickly before the two February Ausfood days roll around.

Dried apricots fall into the same too-hard basket as the sunflower seeds and pepitas. Dried apricots produced in this country seem to be a thing of the past. Turkish imports of dried apricots have been around for some time now but the death knell for Australian production seemed to occur at the time an Australian company, well known and with a long standing reputation for producing home-grown dried fruit was taken over by foreign ownership.

I am pleased to say Australian almonds and sultanas are readily available; read all about it in the following post.