If this were me, I would fill 'em up with homemade granola/muesli. Making it bulk it better bang for your buck anyway. Seeing it is what I think is cook with this dispenser! I would love to have that if I stayed with you. Storebough cereal is, storebought cereal..
It's very expensive to make meusli/granola around here. Do you have a recipe that turns out to be inexpensive, without having to buy ingredients in 20 kg bags?
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Eric Arthur Blair said:
It's very expensive to make meusli/granola around here. Do you have a recipe that turns out to be inexpensive, without having to buy ingredients in 20 kg bags?
44 lbs??? Why would you buy anything in that kind of bulk? I can get 1 lb bags of various ingredients (Bob's Red Mill) for about $2.49-4.99/bag. Small batches. It's not like guests are going to clean it out everyday. Maybe a couple of guests/month will have a bowl of granola. Or I will use it in fruit cups. Over time it is a lot less than paying $9.50/lb for grocery store granola. I can use whatever is hanging around the house that week. Raisins, dried cranberries, sunflower seeds, whatever.
Here's just one: http://allrecipes.com/recipe/light-fruit-and-nut-granola/detail.aspx
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I was at the restaurant supply store today and checked a few things. They can be expensive for some things but when you buy large bulk, they are usually cheaper. So, I looked at the cost of Oatmeal, $7.59 for 5 KG. So just 15c per 100g, instead of the $1.28 per 100g at the supermarket. But I have to make a heck of a lot of this granola
I have to check out the other ingredients, still, but at least it's affordable, a barrel at the time. Maybe I will ask another innkeeper if they are interested in sharing the cost and quantity.
On the bright side, I found almond flour (but I have to see if it's milled enough to sift, but a heck of a lot cheaper than the natural food store), frozen peaches (for jam), a bucket of dijon mustard for $3.49 and disposible pastry bags (along with two 8mm tips for them).
I bought a small container of wasabi last week, but they had a 1 kg bag for about $20 which has given me some ideas... White chocolate & Wasabi, a beatiful mix (wasabi used in moderation, of course).
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