Skip to main content

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!
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Little Disciples

As I've been learning more about Charlotte Mason and her methods, I've been thinking especially about what she means by "Education is a Discipline."  As I was reading her thoughts on discipline from her Homeschooling series, I was particularly struck by the following quotation. Discipline is not Punishment ––What is discipline? Look at the word; there is no hint of punishment in it. A disciple is a follower, and discipline is the state of the follower; the learner, imitator. Mothers and fathers do not well to forget that their children are, by the very order of Nature, their disciples... How Disciples are Lured ––He who would draw disciples does not trust to force; but to these three things–– to the attraction of his doctrine, to the persuasion of his presentation, to the enthusiasm of his disciples ; so the parent has teachings of the perfect life which he knows how to present continually with winning force until the children are quickened with such zeal for virtue...
7 comments
Read more

About Me

  Hello! Welcome to my blog. What you will find here are my attempts at sorting through my ideas and implementation of homeschool curriculum and activities that I have pursued with my own two boys. The Beginning I began this blog in 2008 when my oldest was only a year old. It began as a family blog chronicling our adventures as a young family in Seattle. We decided early on that we wanted to homeschool our two sons. Honestly, now, I don't remember why we decided to do that, but we did it nevertheless. We began teaching our children as soon as they could walk and talk. We made many mistakes along the way and so learned to follow the lead of our children in what they were interested in. We focused on delight-directed learning with a lot of outings and fun things to do. When things got rough, we learned to adapt and switch things out. Moving To Thailand In 2015, our family moved to Thailand. We started another blog for our time there, but alas it was not a good fit for us. We had int...
Post a Comment
Read more

Typical Day at our Coop

Here is what a typical day looks like at "school" Play Time Drop-off time at school is 8:30AM.  We are currently made up of four families and have seven kids.  We intend to be more of a homeschool setting than a school, so we try to make it as engaging with the kids as possible.  They usually just want to hang out with their friends once they first see them in the morning.  Play time first thing in the morning allows for them to get some energy out, connect with their friends, and let the parents chat a bit before getting into the school day. Sharing Time Z sharing about his last book that he read Once we've gathered all the kids together, we have sharing time.  I do this mostly to ward off rabbit trail conversations and questions throughout the morning.  I have each kid come up individually and usually ask them a question.  Usually, it's something like, "What did you do this weekend?"  Or maybe it's "Show and Tell".  Many of ...
4 comments
Read more