A recipe for home made granola bars that will rival store bought and save you a lot of money. The perfect snack.
I often get asked what I have for snacks and these granola bars are one of my favourites. If you watched my food preparation video, you would have seen me speak about these. They are quite high in calories because of the nuts and seeds, but they are not "bad" calories. Because I eat a lot of fresh produce, it can sometimes be hard for me to reach my calorie limit for the day, so eating one of these ensures that I am eating enough. I love granola bars, they are great for an on the go snack too, but if you look at the ingredients of the store bought ones, they have way too many things added to them and you can make them yourself with much less ingredients and they taste so much better.
These don't make the perfect bar shapes, so when you take it out of the oven, leave it to cool for a little while and then break into the size you want. This recipe made about 12 pieces for me.
I also like to take one of the "bars" and crumble it up and put on top of yogurt and fruit for breakfast.
How to make Homemade Granola Bars - serves 16:
Homemade Granola Bars
Ingredients
- 200 g oats
- 130 g mixed nuts roughly chopped
- 100 g dried fruit
- 100 g chocolate chips
- 125 ml honey
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- 200 g almond butter (or any nut butter)
- 1 tbsp vanilla extract
Instructions
- In a saucepan, melt the nut butter until it is runny.
- In a bowl, add the oats, nuts, dried fruit, chocolate chips and melted nut butter. Mix well.
- Press the mixture into a lined tray and refrigerate for 2 hours.
- Remove from the fridge, and slice into bars.
Nutritional Information
In other exciting news, the lovely people at Total Greek Yoghurt sent me lots of lovely yogurt this morning to review some of their new flavours.
I would just like the state that in regards to reviews of products that I do, whether I get sent the product to test out or not, I will never review a product that I don't believe in, or that I wouldn't use/eat myself. I have been eating Total Greek Yogurt for years and it helped me so much whilst I was losing weight, so I am happy to share my opinions on this with you in the review. I also can't wait to try the split pots - the pomegranate raspberry looks delicious.
Today has been my rest day from the gym and it is nice to get lots of other things done. As well as eating a lot of yoghurt (look at how it is staring at me), I have been writing lots and getting organised - it makes a change.
What is your favourite thing to snack on?
What is your favourite yogurt topping?
Jacob Lenaerts
I want to dat thank you to who posted this recipe! I am a persoon who eats very much so I often get hungry in the evening or in the afternoon. When I get hungry, I always go searching for some snacks. The problem is when I search for a snack, I always pick the unhealthy snack. So I started looking at this recipe and try to make it. I have to tell you I’m not The best cook, but it still was very easy to make. It also tasted very good and is also super healthy.
Ellen
These will be great to pack for a mid-morning snack at work!
jan
Hi,
I just made you granola bars, slightly adapted due to a lack of coconut chips & carob or choc chips. I used dried cranberries, blueberries & dates - just 2 dsp spoon in total & 2 small bananas to loosen the almond butter. I'll post what they came out like! I am not sure what my alterations have done to the total calories, but like you I struggle to eat enough some-days. I also eat 'clean' and have lost over 50lbs since last Sept. I have gone from no exercise to intense gym (cardio & weights) & running. I recently did a 5k twilight race for life in 37 mins (slowish I know, but it was dark!). My focus now is fitness/health and exercise as a way of dealing with stress & anxiety - which works! Great website,
Dannii
Well done on losing 50lbs. And 37 mins for a 5K is not slow at all - I would say that is pretty quick.
Stephanie
Hi. I just made these bars, they're really delicious, only problem is they were too dry and fell apart as soon as I tried to cut them, even though I added extra honey and some water. Any suggestions? I think there are too many oats.
Karen
Hi,
I love homemade granola bars and just tried this one out. Are you sure about the quantities? 350 g is a lot of oats; I just could not make the ingredients make stick together, although I added more butter and some liquid. Still - the result was somehow dry.
Jennifer
Hi, this looks like a great recipe! Do you have a calorie count per serving? And serving size?
HHHAdmin
I haven't worked out the calorie count yet. I shall do that today :)
HHHAdmin
I have updated the nutritional information now :)
Jennifer
Thanks!!! I'm gonna make these today:)
HHHAdmin
Let me know if you like them :)
Maria @ runningcupcake
Wow those granola bars look lovely :)
Eleanor
I knew when you mentioned these on my blog that I'd like the look of them and now I can see exactly why you've had to hide them! Most of my favourite things in one bar and the texture looks perfect :-)
Jen @ Jen's Favorite Cookies
I LOVE homemade granola bars. This recipe looks great!
HHHAdmin
They may be *too* great. I can't stop eating them!
Brigette
Could you let me know what else besides nut butter you could use in this? My daughter is allergic to all nuts. I assume the creaminess of the nut butter adds to it.
HHHAdmin
You can buy or make sunflower seed butter than could be used instead.
HHHAdmin
Is she allergic to almonds too? As they are not technically a nut. My husband is allergic to all nuts, but can have almonds - so I use almond butter.