Probably the most frequent complaint that I’ve heard from people is that they lack energy. Men, women and children of all ages seem to have this common affliction. Some people just assume that it is natural and there is nothing they can do about it and carry on from there never showing a spark of life and just sort of dragging themselves through from day to day. Allow me to suggest that you may be eating what are normally considered proper foods in wide variety and still you’re lethargic and sort of dead to the world from the neck up. Yes, and from the neck down, too. Listen here, whether you eat three or four meals a day or whether you eat 6 meals a day or only 1 meal a day is of little consequence. It is what you eat. Let’s even take it a step further. You can eat all of the right foods… even if I told you what foods to eat to give you energy… yes, you can eat all of them and still have no energy and still feel as bad as ever. If you are lacking in energy you can restore your vitality and whether or not you ever had any great strength you can be filled with vim. Now let me tell you of my 3-V breakfast cereal. This formula is based upon the early Bircher-Benner Muesli system. The first time that I tried muesli my remark was, “If I’ve got to eat stuff like this to be healthy, then I don’t want to be healthy.” But I kept saying to myself, “I want health — I want it badly — so I’ll have to put up with a bit of food that isn’t so appetizing. So what if it doesn’t taste so hot?” Then a more advanced thought occurred to me, “Why not try to make it palatable? You’ve got access to good food and you know a bit about it, so work on it.” I did just that and I got my wife interested and we began a series of experiments. Every day we tried a new batch for breakfast. Sometimes we added and sometimes we subtracted. Sometimes we put more of this and less of that and other times we put less of this and more of that. Well, after monkeying around for about two years we came up with the answer to what I was seeking… (a) 100% nutrition, (b) palatability, (c) availability, In fact it was so good and tasteful to eat that there was a great temptation to overeat. The most important thing about this breakfast food, or 3- V cereal as I call it, is that it fulfills the basic needs of mankind. It is 100% nutrition and the items it contains are generally available everywhere. Therefore, no one need be undernourished, not even the poor. You may wonder why I put so many things together in one formula. The reason, I figured most people would if necessary deign to take those formula for one meal a day so I made it a one shot deal and I put all my eggs in one basket. I calculated that you might tackle my cereal for one meal a day, so I had one chance and I was going to hit as hard as I possibly could, with all my might, with that one blow. If you are going to make this cereal I don’t care where you get the ingredients but my suggestion is that you get them organically grown, if possible. But, organically grown or not, make sure you get them. Buy the best ingredients that you can. None of them is expensive and if dried fruits are too expensive, buy fresh fruits that are cheaper. If dried peaches or dried apricots are too dear, use more raisins, use more dried apples or dried pears or dates or figs. I permit the use of a bit of milk, but not much milk is required if you will soak the 3-V cereal overnight. In fact, better still, you can soak a whole batch — enough to last a week — and keep it in the refrigerator. I don’t think it will suffer any harm and by having it soaked, a lot of water will be absorbed and you will required very little milk. Better still, do without any milk. I say that again, better still, do without any milk. I have absolute and positive proof concerning the nutritive and the beneficial value of the 3-V cereal because thousands of people through the years have written or taken the trouble to tell me personally how much they have benefited from using it. I am note trying to sell you the cereal. I am giving you the formula. Follow it as closely as possible and use it daily and feed it to your family. Even if you have to persuade, coax, cajole or club your children into taking it, do it for a few days. After that they’ll take it on their own and want or demand it. If I do nothing else in my whole life for my fellow man but teach him the merits of 3-V cereal, I will have earned my reward wherever or whatever that amounts to. I would like to clarify two points. First, the original Bircher- Benner Muesli contained ground nuts. I deliberately omitted nuts because they go rancid very quickly. Second, I now use and recommend only whole grains — not ground or cracked. I find that by soaking the whole mixture together all of the seeds soften enough to allow grinding and chewing without any great effort. Even hard cereals like barley and rice will soften enough to make them chewable and digestible. Without boasting or exaggerating, it is the finest, the best balanced, the most nutritious assembled food in the whole world. Be sure no flaked, rolled grains… all whole grains.

3-V Cereal Ingredients

• 10 parts oats
• 2 parts barley
• 2 parts wheat
• 2 parts rye
• 2 parts buckwheat
• 2 parts millet
• 1 part sesame
• 1 part flax
• 2 parts alfalfa herb, powdered
• 2 parts dried prunes
• 2 parts dried raisins
• 1 part dried peaches
• 2 parts dried apricots
• 1 part dried dates
• 1 part dried figs

Cut fruit into small pieces. Thoroughly mix fruits and grains together. Don’t cook or heat… just add water — spring or well water preferred… let soak overnight. Add milk, cold or warm (never hot), if desired. Eat 2 to 5 tablespoons every day or at least every other day. It is most advisable to soak the ingredients because I want to return the water that was originally in the food and this can only be done by allowing it to soak. I get best results and the most satisfying flavor by making enough to last me a week and keeping it in the refrigerator and then every day or every other day taking out the quantity that I want for that meal. Following this recipe alone will correct the condition, that is the lack of energy and will provide you with energy, all day and all night, if you want it. Isn’t it tragic that most people in the world don’t know this simple answer to a very difficult problem? Right now you’re thinking this is just too easy, it is just too simple and best of all it doesn’t even cost much money. You can buy the ingredients and mix the whole concoction yourself and it will only cost you pennies for a good big breakfast. Why use it only for breakfast? Use it for lunch, use it for dinner and you can mix a batch of it to last you a week for less money than it will cost you to buy a big package of those cooked processed cereals that were proven by investigations to contain more energy in the package than in the food. So unless you act upon this suggestion you are depriving yourself of a body full of pep and energy. Now one more point. The best energy food in the world can be knocked into a cocked hat if you drink a lot of booze and if you smoke a lot of cigarettes or cigars or smoke a pipe or take drugs. This food will work if you permit it to work, if you don’t interfere with it. All right, now you’ve got the answer. Do something about it and be filled with pep all day, every day.