Miranda’s Simple Super Bircher Muesli

This muesli is packed with vitamins and minerals, is easy to digest (because it’s been soaked) and has a soothing effect on the central nervous system.

Ingredients

• • 2.5 cups of organic oats
  • ½ cup sunflower seeds

• ½ cup pumpkin seeds
• ½ cup linseeds
• ½ cup dried cranberries
• ¼ cup sultanas

Directions

Mix all ingredients together and soak in ½ litre of filtered water overnight.
It will last refrigerated in a sealed container for a week. Serve with seasonal berries or grated apple, and your choice of milk (I prefer goat milk).

Some nutritional information

Oats
The health-promoting powers of oats are truly impressive. Oats are low in calories and high in fiber and protein. They’re a rich source of magnesium, potassium, zinc, copper, manganese, selenium and thiamine. The synergy of the nutrients in oats makes them an outstanding, formidable and inexpensive super-food suitable for the whole family.

Sunflower seeds
Sunflower seeds are the gift of the beautiful sunflower, a plant with rays of petals emanating from its bright yellow, seed-studded center. Sunflower seeds are an excellent source of Vitamin E and a very good source of copper, vitamin B1, manganese, selenium, phosphorus, magnesium, Vitamin B6, folate, and niacin.

Pumpkin seeds
The diversity of antioxidants in pumpkin seeds makes them unique in their antioxidant support as they contain a wide variety of antioxidant phytonutrients. Pumpkin seeds are also a very good source of phosphorus, magnesium, manganese, copper, zinc, iron and protein.

Cranberries
This beautiful bright berry provides us with an astonishing array of phytonutrients. Many of these phytonutrients offer antioxidant and anti-inflammatory health benefits. Cranberries are a very good source of Vitamin C, dietary fibre and manganese, as well as a good source of Vitamin E, Vitamin K, copper, and pantothenic acid.