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At the bottom of the box of shredded wheat squares, there's quite a bit of 'loose' shredded wheat; it used to be in cereal form and is now just loose.

What interesting recipes or dish modifications can you suggest?

One idea was a sort of crisp/struedel topping, (mix with butter and bake on top of a fruit dessert)

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There's a middle-eastern dish called Kataife that uses loose shredded wheat rehydrated with sugar, walnuts, cinnamon and a few other things. My grandma makes it and it is fantastic.

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I have to say I haven't done this since i was about 10 but when I was a child I used to make chocolate nests out of them.

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You could also use them in place of bread crumbs when, for example, coating chicken breasts.

You could also use them in muffins.

There's a whole list of shredded wheat recipes here and here.

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One option would be to use as an ingredient in bread. Nova Scotia Brown Bread utilizes molasses, shortening, and in some recipes that I've seen, shredded wheat. For example, you could use the equivalent of two pieces in this recipe.

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If you have the cinnamon shredded wheat left over, you could use it on french toast right after you dip the bread in the egg/milk mixture, and before you put it in the pan.

Another way to recycle it is to make a snack dessert with walnuts, loose cinnamon shredded wheat, cocoa, and peanut butter. Mix it all up and add powder sugar at the end (Shake it in a bag is easiest. Just like you would make puppy chow- a common sweet snack.)

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I use the unsweetened crumbs in my meatloaf.

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With a little planning you can add it to most brownie mixes with great results. You might have to add an extra egg and some milk to the mixture and bake it a little longer, but that's a heck of a lot easier than trying to make something from scratch. I made some brownies with about two or three cups of crumbs, took them to work the next day and everybody loved them. Not only did the shredded wheat crumbs increase the volume of the mix, it also gave it a little more texture, sort of like a coconut mixture.

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I use them in a breakfast bar recipe: combine 2 cups shredded wheat cereal remains, 2c rolled oats, 1c flour, 2tsp cinnamon, 1tsp baking soda, 3/4c oil, 1/2c honey, 3 eggs, 2tsp vanilla, 3/4tsp salt, 2c dried fruit; mix, press into greased cookie bar pan, bake 350 for 25-30 min.

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I like to use it as crust on some desserts like pudding or cheesecake.

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