Granola bars anyone?

meeper123

Looking for some healthy granola bar recipes. Ones that aren't loaded with refined sugar preferably Some honey or maple syrup sounds fine though.

Pudding1980

I make these ones regularly for my family. I replace the nuts with raw sunflower and pumpkin seeds so my son can take them to school in his lunchbag. Sometimes I sub mashed ripe banana for the pumpkin.

2½ cups quick-cooking oats (not instant)
1 cup unsweetened shredded coconut
½ cup chopped raw almonds, pecans or pistachios
½ cup chopped dried cranberries
½ cup mini chocolate chips
⅓ cup whole wheat flour (see tip)
¼ cup ground flaxseed
1 tsp cinnamon
½ tsp salt
¾ cup canned pure pumpkin (not pumpkin pie filling)
½ cup liquid honey
¼ cup butter, melted
1 tsp vanilla
Preheat oven to 350 degrees fahrenheit. Line a 9 x 13-inch baking pan with parchment paper, letting the paper overhang on two opposite sides (so you can use it as a sling to pick up the granola bars after baking).
Combine first 9 ingredients in a large bowl. Mix well. In a medium bowl, whisk together pumpkin, honey, butter and vanilla. Pour wet ingredients over dry ingredients. Mix using a wooden spoon until dry ingredients are coated with pumpkin mixture. Make sure there aren't any dry oats in the bottom of the bowl! Stir, stir, stir!
Pour the wet granola mixture into the prepared pan and spread it evenly to the edges. Using your hand, press down firmly on the granola so that it's tightly packed in the pan.
Bake on middle oven rack for about 25 minutes, until top turns a light golden brown and feels dry to touch. Remove pan from oven and cool completely on a wire rack. Lift cooled slab of granola from pan by holding on to parchment paper and transfer to a cutting board. Using a large, sharp knife, cut the granola into 16 bars, about 1½ x 4 inches each. (Tip: Press down with the knife to cut the bars and avoid a sawing motion.) Wrap bars tightly in plastic wrap and store in an airtight container, either at room temperature or in the fridge.
Makes 16 granola bars
Per bar: 214 calories, 9.7 g total fat (5 g saturated fat), 4 g protein, 30 g carbohydrate, 3.4 g fibre, 9 mg cholesterol, 83 mg sodium

meeper123

Those do sound yummy

melindasuefritz

sounds good

melindasuefritz

except for doing all that work and they ar e 200 a nd some caleries
ill just buy the 100 cal ones

meeper123

Those are highly processed nutritionaly deprieved junk (the premade ones)

kels1152

I make these ones regularly for my family. I replace the nuts with raw sunflower and pumpkin seeds so my son can take them to school in his lunchbag. Sometimes I sub mashed ripe banana for the pumpkin.

2½ cups quick-cooking oats (not instant)
1 cup unsweetened shredded coconut
½ cup chopped raw almonds, pecans or pistachios
½ cup chopped dried cranberries
½ cup mini chocolate chips
⅓ cup whole wheat flour (see tip)
¼ cup ground flaxseed
1 tsp cinnamon
½ tsp salt
¾ cup canned pure pumpkin (not pumpkin pie filling)
½ cup liquid honey
¼ cup butter, melted
1 tsp vanilla
Preheat oven to 350 degrees fahrenheit. Line a 9 x 13-inch baking pan with parchment paper, letting the paper overhang on two opposite sides (so you can use it as a sling to pick up the granola bars after baking).
Combine first 9 ingredients in a large bowl. Mix well. In a medium bowl, whisk together pumpkin, honey, butter and vanilla. Pour wet ingredients over dry ingredients. Mix using a wooden spoon until dry ingredients are coated with pumpkin mixture. Make sure there aren't any dry oats in the bottom of the bowl! Stir, stir, stir!
Pour the wet granola mixture into the prepared pan and spread it evenly to the edges. Using your hand, press down firmly on the granola so that it's tightly packed in the pan.
Bake on middle oven rack for about 25 minutes, until top turns a light golden brown and feels dry to touch. Remove pan from oven and cool completely on a wire rack. Lift cooled slab of granola from pan by holding on to parchment paper and transfer to a cutting board. Using a large, sharp knife, cut the granola into 16 bars, about 1½ x 4 inches each. (Tip: Press down with the knife to cut the bars and avoid a sawing motion.) Wrap bars tightly in plastic wrap and store in an airtight container, either at room temperature or in the fridge.
Makes 16 granola bars
Per bar: 214 calories, 9.7 g total fat (5 g saturated fat), 4 g protein, 30 g carbohydrate, 3.4 g fibre, 9 mg cholesterol, 83 mg sodium

Those sound sooooooo yummy! If only I had half of those ingredients in my cupboard. I'll have to start buying them so I can make them soon Definitely would be much better than store bought ones...even though I do love nature valley bars

meeper123

Made some simple chew granola cookies that are a huge hit

2 cups rolled oats
1cup nut butter
1/2 cup sliced raw almonds or whole is fine too
1/2 honey
Cinnomon
vanilla extract

Pre heat oven to 350 toast almonds and oats for 10 mins. Combine nutbutter honey cinnomon and vanilla in a microwave safe dish and heat for 30 secs or until melted stir in oats and almonds then spoon onto wax paper until set up