"Dear Hugh
After watching your lovely recipe for muesli, I thought perhaps you can help with a modern problem. Perhaps next year. When I first ate muesli, it was always based on oats, and was very nice. Sometime over the last 20-30 years it has got harder and harder to find this - even Alpen, which was standard, has long ago put lots of wheat in, and it is horrible, it is hard. You probably have to use hot milk to make it eatable. I know people who hate muesli, and I am sure this is why.
Nowadays I have to search hard for special ranges, and I can find one suitable variety at my local Co-op, but otherwise have to go to Health Food Stores which are much further away. I wonder if some time, you can raise the profile of this issue? You would be doing Britain a great favour if you publicised the problem. Perhaps you always make your own, so have not come across this. But ask any supermarket shopper and they will confirm my findings - usually wheat is listed before oats in the ingredients.
Yours hopefully
Mary Rooks"
After watching your lovely recipe for muesli, I thought perhaps you can help with a modern problem. Perhaps next year. When I first ate muesli, it was always based on oats, and was very nice. Sometime over the last 20-30 years it has got harder and harder to find this - even Alpen, which was standard, has long ago put lots of wheat in, and it is horrible, it is hard. You probably have to use hot milk to make it eatable. I know people who hate muesli, and I am sure this is why.
Nowadays I have to search hard for special ranges, and I can find one suitable variety at my local Co-op, but otherwise have to go to Health Food Stores which are much further away. I wonder if some time, you can raise the profile of this issue? You would be doing Britain a great favour if you publicised the problem. Perhaps you always make your own, so have not come across this. But ask any supermarket shopper and they will confirm my findings - usually wheat is listed before oats in the ingredients.
Yours hopefully
Mary Rooks"
I thought it was a very interesting and perceptive point... and will be responding to it over the next few days.
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