Healthful Granola Bar - Recipe

Charlotte Mason makes a big deal that education is about the whole person and that includes what our children eat. I discovered once at the grocery store that it was near impossible to find granola bars that didn't include high fructose corn syrup - even the considered "healthy" ones. I've seen that since then some brands have gotten better, but they are still very expensive. So, I went on a hunt to find a healthy recipe. I'm trying to avoid white sugar as well, so I came up with this recipe based off Playgroup Granola Bars.

Ingredients

• 2 Cups Rolled Oats
• 1/2 Cup Sucanat (or brown sugar if you don't have sucanat)
• 1/2 Cup Wheat Germ
• 2 T Flaxseed
• 3/4 t Ground Cinnamon
• 1 Cup Unbleached White Flour or Wheat Flour
• 1 Apple cut up in small pieces
• 3/4 t Salt
• 1/2 Cup Honey
• 1 Egg
• 1/2 Cup Olive Oil
• 2 t Vanilla Extract

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease 9x13 inch baking pan
2. Mix all dry ingredients together. Add wet ingredients and mix well.
3. Transfer to baking pan and pat down evenly.
4. Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes. Cut while warm.

These are SUPER yummy. My kids just love them. My son helped me make them, and he really enjoyed putting all the ingredients in with the measuring cups and mixing it all together. He even helped me pat it down in the pan which was fun to make his hands all messy!

Enjoy!