Looking for a quick, portable, homemade breakfast? I found a kid friendly recipe, and with a few tweaks made something that my whole family loves. The recipe is simple but the flavor of these bars is delish. Plus you can use your favorite dried fruits and nuts, or whatever you just happen to have in your cupboards. The recipe is flexible.
To see the recipe, just read more.
Inspired by Katie Lee Joel for CBS
Ingredients
1 cup almond or peanut butter
3/4 cup dark agave nectar or honey
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
3 cups old fashioned rolled oats
1 cup toasted slivered almonds
1/4 to 1/2 cup raisins or other dried fruit
Directions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Spray a 9 inch square pan with canola cooking spray.
- Combine almond butter, agave in a heavy bottomed sauce pan over medium-high flamed. Whisk until melted — three to five minutes.
- Stir in vanilla and cinnamon.
- Add in oat, almonds and raisins.
- Bake for 15 minutes. Let cool completely and cut into nine equal squares.
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These breakfast bars are easy to eat on the go and pair nicely with peaches, plums or nectarines.
Do you have a recipe for a healthy breakfast bar? Then share it in the Lite'n it Up - Healthy Recipe Group and I might just post it here on the pages of FitSugar.
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Diesel
now how many points is this on Weight Watchers..lol...
1Looks good!!
thanks so much for this! I've been looking for a pre-morning run bar since the stores stopped stalking my favourite Ryvita Goodness bars. And I absolutely LOVE agave nectar, so you get bonus points for that!!
2would love the nutrition info. on this....
3oooh, thanks for that!
i've been hankering to make some bars at home. now i have to decide between this and the ones alton brown showed on his program. all look yummy.
alton brown energy bars
hmmm, looking at those recipes now, i'm wondering why they didn't include the nutritional info for each bar that he showed on this episode...
4*Start to calculate the fat/cal content* This is going to take a while. I'm so going to make this!
5i always love to find new recipes like this. when i was in middle school all those years ago - we made granola and now i've learned to adapt that into a bar form and add things that i enjoy to it. that's all assuming that i have the time and energy to be that creative - but i've done it a time or 2
6this looks awesome...but I am lazy and will probably just go for my KIND or Lara bars.
7Looks yummy! Definitely going to make it.
8my middle child would LOVE these, gonna have to try making them and having him help me!
9will totally be throwing coconut in there!
10and dried cranberries in lieu of raisins.
11superfoxml -
coconut would be a great addition! If I had dried cranberries I would have used them since raisins are not my fave.
12looks delicious!
13num num num.
anybody have the fat/ cal content?
14I am soooo making these
15these look great! I'm definitely going to try it
16I cannot stand the word 'delish.' But, I cannot wait to make these bars for my husband and I. I can already tell that they won't last long in our house!
YUM!
17Now this is what I'm talking about...homemade energy bars. They look a lot healthier than those store-bought granola bars that tend to have lots of corn syrup and transfats in them. I will have to try these!
18Ooooh, these look so good and really easy! I will definitely be giving them a try.
19...just made them an hour ago..THEY CAME OUT GREAT! I thought with the rolled oats that the texture would not be to my liking, however, that wasnt a problem...very good!
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