Crunchy Spice Granola

Ingredients

• 1 cup wheat bran flakes cereal with raisins
• 0.3 cup coconut or flaked
• 1 cup cross of corn and rice cereal crisp
• 0.3 cup dates chopped
• 0.3 cup golden raisins 
• 0.3 teaspoon ground allspice 
• 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon 
• 0.5 teaspoon ground nutmeg 
• 0.5 cup honey 
• 3 cups regular oats 
• 6 ounce pear baby food 
• 0.5 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice 
• 0.3 cup sunflower seeds 
• 0.5 cup wheat bran 
• 0.5 cup wheat germ 

Equipment

• frying pan
• sauce pan
• oven

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 35
2. Spread first three ingredients on a jelly-roll pan.
3. Bake at 350 for 20 minutes, stirring occasionally.
4. Remove from oven.
5. Reduce oven temperature to 25
6. Combine honey and next 5 ingredients (honey through baby food) in a small saucepan. Bring to a boil; cook 1 minute.
7. Combine oat mixture, honey mixture, bran flakes, and next 5 ingredients (bran flakes through dates); stir well.
8. Spread mixture on a jelly-roll pan coated with cooking spray.
9. Bake at 250 for 1 hour, stirring every 20 minutes.
10. Let cool to room temperature. Store in an airtight container.
11. Sprinkle over yogurt, fresh fruit slices, or frozen yogurt as a quick topping.