 |
| Homemade Snack Bars |
Since Mark doesn't always feel like eating breakfast at 5 something in the morning before work, he likes to stick a Fiber One bar in his pocket so that he doesn't totally fizzle out before getting to eat lunch. So after buying a couple of boxes of them at Sam's the other day (we now have 40something bars in our cabinet), I started to wonder if it would be easy to make something like them at home. Without all of those weird additives and such.
I figured if I found a good recipe for the stuff that makes it all stick together, then we already had some decent ingredients in our kitchen that would make for a pretty good snack bar.
I used this Homemade Granola Bar recipe for reference.
I think you could pretty much use whatever crunchy or chewy nutty/fruity/cereal-ish goodness tickles your fancy; just make the total amt. of dry ingredients add up to about 4.5 - 5 cups
Here's what I used in mine:
- Organic Cheerio-like cereal (This particular brand I had bought tasted like cardboard, so I thought this would be a perfect way to get rid of it!)
- Chopped Pecans
- Pumpkin Seeds
- Oatmeal
- I added 1/2 cup of Flax Seed after toasting
 |
| Pecans, Pumpkin Seeds, Oatmeal, Cereal, Flax Seed |
And for the "glue that holds it all together" I followed the recipe directions except....
- I left out the vanilla extract
- I used 1/3 cup honey and 1/3 cup peanut butter
- I used half the amt. of Brown sugar (it was already very sweet!)
And then, because my original idea was to make them Peanut Butter and Chocolate Flavored, I dipped the bottoms in a thin layer of melted chocolate
Mark likes 'em! These were so simple, and I think it will be fun to make various flavors with whatever kinds of ingredients we like!
