My husband loves cereal. It’s his preferred breakfast food. Me, not so much. I love my green smoothie. Anything else just feels too heavy to me for my first meal. So to encourage him to stay away from the cereal aisle at the store, I’ve been experimenting with mostly raw granolas. I think I hit on one that’s pretty tasty.
Notice I said this one is mostly raw. The obvious ingredient that’s not raw is oatmeal. You can, of course, omit the oatmeal and just increase the buckwheat or add more nuts or apples, or anything else your heart desires. I’m just not that picky about a little oatmeal, myself.
One thing I’ve noticed, though, and this is not just for granolas: I have to be careful not to over-dehydrate my food. But granola especially is hard to chew if over-dehydrated! You know, like, break-your-teeth kind of hard. I equate over-dehydrating with over-baking or broiling. Difference is, one turns food black, the other makes it like trying to chew leather or rocks. Whenever I would put Italian bread in the oven to brown, I would inevitably forget about it while it turned a lovely shade of black. I tend to do that sometimes with the dehydrator.
So take my advice on this one. Dehydrate this particular mixture only about 18 hours or so between 110 - 115 degrees. Let it cool before you bag it or put it in an airtight container.
Per my usual method of cooking and un-cooking, I eyeball everything, but this is a close estimate. Also, feel free to substitute any ingredient you see fit. This is just what I happened to have on hand at the time. No big deal, I’m sure 
Tasty Mostly Raw Granola!
What holds it all together:
1 cup raisins
6-8 dates, pitted
Honey to taste
1tsp. vanilla
Pinch of sea salt
1-2 tsp. cinnamon or to taste
Juice from 1 large orange
Place all ingredients into food processor with “S” blade and process till liquid-y. It’s okay if it’s not perfectly smooth.
The crunchy goodness:
3/4 cup buckwheat, sprouted and dehydrated
1-1/2 cups almonds, soaked, dehydrated and chopped
1 cup raw pumpkin seeds, soaked and dehydrated
1/2 cup raw sunflower seeds, soaked and dehydrated
2 or 3 cups rolled oats
Cinnamon, to taste
Add the liquid to the above ingredients and spread in dehydrator so it’s about 1″ thick. Dehydrate and break into pieces when cool.