This is a trick I picked up from a sturdy wench friend of mine. It’s more than just a big glass jar of cereal. It’s a way to make cereal any way you want. So many brands of cereal out there and which one to eat? Do I want wheat, or corn, or oats, or rice, or flax seed? Is it too sweet – or not sweet enough? Does it have fiber? And they never put enough fruit or nuts in. So – what do you do?

You buy them all – and combine them any way you want. And that’s exactly what I do.

I have about 10 different kinds of cereal and I mix them all together in a big glass jar. I then add lots of raisins – often several kinds of raisins. And the nuts. I have a separate container where I mix the nuts and then add handfulls to the cereal jar. In the container on the side I mix sunflower seeds, walnuts, pecans, almonds, and any other kinds of unsalted ground nuts I can come up with. This makes it easy to add everything at once without having to get out a bunch of little bags of everything.

So – you throw it all together and you mix it all up turning the jar upside down and side to side and it’s ready to eat. Never fill the jar more that 80% because it needs room to mix. When the jar gets down to 30% full – you throw in some more cereal and fill it up.

Then when you get up in the morning you just grab a bowl – fill it up – and gobble down the most important meal of the day. It’s quick – simple – and probably good for you. So – if you all go out and get you a mama Leslie’s cereal jar – maybe someday you can be a dangerous mind like me.

Just cut up the onions and put them on a paper towel and nuke them in the microwave for 90 seconds. Then remove the towel and let them cool. Get two slices of bread – put half the onions on one slice – add a layer of cheese – the roast beef – another layer of cheese – the rest of the onions – and cap it with the other slice of bread. Then pop the sandwich into the microwave and nuke it for about 45 seconds and melt the cheese in good. Let it cool for about a minute and you have a great sandwich.

Technically the onions aren’t fried – they are boiled but without being boiled in water. The onion tase is preserved but the raw onion taste is gone. They have the same taste as fried onions but are more consistent and don’t have the drippy fluids that you get with frying. It’s a healthier sandwich with a better taste.