Lately I don't have a lot of time to prepare foods, which is terrible, because it's hard to eat healthy if you don't make time to make your own food so you know what's in it. Anyway, the recipes I usually make time to create are healthy sweet treats that I use to keep my sweet tooth at bay. One such thing is a homemade fruit bar/snack that is a mimic of those Lara brand bars.

First off, they require zero cooking, but do require a food processor or a good quality blender.
They use dates as a sort of glue, and you go from there and add other dried fruits, raw nuts, and spices to jazz them up. I just toss a handful of this and a handful of that, and if there are more nuts in the mixture than fruit, they become crumbly, so you have to add more dried fruit.

Example:
about 3/4 cup raw, unsalted cashew pieces
7 to 8 dates (pits removed)
10-12 dried apricots (add more if needed)
3 or 4 pieces of candied ginger (Trader Joe's brand is great as it's uncrystalized & lower sugar)
1/2 tsp curry powder
1/4 tsp cinnamon

Directions:
Start by first tossing in the nuts you want to use, and grind them up to a coarse crumb texture
Then add all the rest of your fruit/spice ingredients and pulse or run the processor/blender until everything is incorporated and paste-like.

Turn out onto wax paper on a cookie sheet w/ 1/4" sides, and us your hands to press the mixture into a square-ish or rectangular shape about 1/4" thick, and cut into little 1" square bars. Keep bars in wax paper in refrigerator.

Serving size: about 2 squares/pieces.
Servings per recipe: It varies, but about 10 or so, depending on volume of the ingredients used, and how thin you press them.