Healthy, homemade Muesli Bars – More Tasty, More Healthy and Less Plastic.

Muesli bars are one of my favourite snack foods. But as well as being wrapped in plastic packaging which I am aiming to reduce/avoid, most store bought bars are loaded with sugar and other processed ingredients or additives

So I have made my own from scratch using a Recipe adapted from The Healthy Chef. I am not a real great cook but these turned out really well and most importantly were delicious!!

These muesli bars are healthy, quick, simple, 100% natural and plastic free!


Ingredients

• 2 cups rolled oats
• 1 cup crushed walnuts (or any other nuts like pecans, almonds or dried fruits)
• ¾ cup LSA
• 1/3 cup pepita seeds (or sunflower seeds, linseeds, poppy seeds)
• ½ cup Desiccated coconut
• ½ tsp ground cinnamon
• 3 eggs
• 1 tsp vanilla
• ¼ oil
• ¼ cup molasses (or you could use honey, maple syrup ect)

Directions

1. Preheat the oven to 160 C fan forced, and line baking tray with baking paper
2. Mix all dry ingredients together (oats, LSA, nuts, coconut, and cinnamon) together in a bowl. 
3. In a separate bowl lightly whisk together eggs, olive oil, molasses and vanilla
4. Combine wet and dry indreients and mix with wooden spoon until well combined. 
5. Spoon into lined tray, smoothing mixture down into a layer about 2-3 cm thick.
6. Bake for 20-25 minutes, until golden brown
7. Cut into pieces while warm, then let cool (makes about 24)

They turned out pretty good I must say! I divided the batch into 4 lots x 6 bars. I keep 6 bars refrigerated in a tin (re-used tin from Max Brenner chocolates), and have frozen the other 3 lots in aluminium foil and baking paper.

I think next batch I may try using orange juice or similar as a substitute for the oil to make them even healthier!

I have calculated the nutrition value using the recipe ingredients in myfitnesspal.com

Calories =143 cal

Carbohydrates = 9g

Fat= 11 g

Proterin =4g

Sugar= 2g


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