Most mornings on my menus I say have cold or hot cereal. Usually over the years I have purchased granola of one form or another. Good quality granola that is inexpensive is hard to find. I found a good one at a discount grocer but it was loaded with sugar. I have over the last few years given up sugar. If I have any sugar at all, its kept to under 4-8 grams per day. As such I was not eating cereal. I missed it and developed this recipe after trial and error.
Granola
prep time 5 min
cooking time 16-25 min
Ingredients
4 cups old fashioned rolled oats
1 cup raisins
1 cup chopped walnuts or pecans (or both)
1 cup dried fruit ( I use banana chips unsweetened coconut etc for their low sugar) if you don’t worry about that use your favorite fruits.
1/2 cup sunflower seeds
2 tbs honey. Add more if you want it sweeter
2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 cup vegetable oil
Blend together in a bowl making sure everything is well coated and distributed. 
Pour out onto a baking sheet lined with a piece of parchment paper. Bake for 8 minutes at 340 degrees Fahrenheit. Stir to expose the uncooked grains. Cook for another 8 minutes and remove from oven. Cool on the baking sheet. It will continue to cook a little this way. I find ovens vary and tastes vary. You may want to leave it in the oven a little longer for a toasty flavor. I have found its a very short cooking time from toasty to burnt. Be careful.
Store in an airtight container. Will keep for weeks but its usually gone before I can test that theory. It’s great with milk yogurt and even on the top of ice cream. ( I make my own, more on that later) instead of a sugary cookie in the evening I have a small bowl of this with skim milk. Yes the honey has grams of sugar lots of them but when you break down two tablespoons to an entire batch it’s a few grams per serving.