Granola

Today I made granola with my son. He's 4 months shy of three and a great kitchen helper. I try to get him into the kitchen at least once a week. He is a big fan of granola and yogurt but every time I look at the ingredients, I think there must be a way to improve the nutritional value.
This week I accidentally bought plain yogurt instead of our usual vanilla flavored. I think this was serendipitous because it made me look at how much sugar was necessary to sweeten the yogurt to its normal sweetness vs. how much made it just yummy. The same was true for the granola. We combined:
3 cups old-fashioned oatmeal
1 cup Grape-Nuts cereal (this cereal has 90% of daily iron and since my son isn't much on meat it's a great power house for him)
1 cup rice flake cereal (like Special K)
1 cup shredded coconut
1 cup pumpkin seeds
1 cup sunflower seeds

He had a great time scooping all of these and then mixing them together. He also likes to taste the ingredients one by one which was a great way to get his buy-in on the final product.

Then, I added a glop of vegetable oil, a bit of maple syrup, and a bit of brown sugar along with some cinnamon. (maybe about 1/3 - 1/2 cup total.) I threw that liquid combo in the microwave to get it well combined before tossing it all together and toasting it in the oven at 300 for about 45 minutes.

We added some chopped dried apples and cranberries to the finished mix as it cooled. Yum!