Healthy Recipe: Homemade Breakfast Bars

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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

Breakfast Bars

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

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Spray a 9 inch square pan with canola cooking spray.
  2. Combine almond butter, agave in a heavy bottomed sauce pan over medium-high flamed. Whisk until melted — three to five minutes.
  3. Stir in vanilla and cinnamon.
  4. Add in oat, almonds and raisins.
  5. Bake for 15 minutes. Let cool completely and cut into nine equal squares.

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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