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I’ve been making muesli for breakfast for the last couple of days, in an attempt to emulate the Bathers’ cafe’s `bircher muesli’. Here’s where I’m up to:

• Half a bowl of oats
• Spoonful of toasted slivered almonds
• Spoonful of sultanas
• Mix
• Soak in 50% orange juice, 50% water in the fridge overnight (think of the liquid-to-solid ratio as a normal milk-to-cereal mix when adding - it will all be soaked up by the oats overnight though)
• Add about 3/4 cup mild, unflavoured yoghurt
• Add 1-2 teaspoons of honey
• Add a couple of spoons of apple sauce (optional)
• Add sweet fruit pieces - raspberries, chopped melon, strawberries, whatever (I don’t recommend banana) (optional)
• Stir
• Serve!

As I said, this is a work in progress, tending towards the Bathers’ Cafe style.

Other things to look at:

• The `original Bircher-Benner muesli recipe’ on Wikipedia
• The Breakfast Blog reviews the Amici Bakery Cafe, including a photo of their Bircher muesli, so you can see what you’re aiming for

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Haven’t I heard that lovely turn of phrase somewhere before?

• Willpower is best used with care - fascinating story about research and anecdotal evidence on willpower, attention spans and the like.
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Amazon doing their best to adopt the style of a smarmy waiter:



It’s funny, I’m sure they intend this kind of language to be cushioning and non-confrontational, but I find it rather condescending.