Hey friends, you guys are always asking me
for easy, healthy snack ideas, so today I
am sharing my clean, eating granola bars.
These bars are vegan, gluten free, dairy free
and refined sugar free if you want.
These babies only use six basic ingredients,
thumbs up for less ingredients, and are completely
customizable to your flavor preferences.
So once you have this base recipe, you can
take it and pretty much run with it however
you want.
This recipe is also available in the free
recipe book portion of my newest e-book ‘Meal
prep: A Beginner’s Guide’.
So if you are interested in learning about
some meal prep, you’ve got to check it out,
link is here or in the description box below.
And let’s get to it.
In a pot over medium heat you are going to
start with two bananas mashed.
Then you will add your peanut butter or nut
butter of choice and mix until well combined
and heated through about two minutes.
In a separate mixing bowl combine your main
granola ingredients, I have rolled oats.
Be sure to use certified gluten free if you
are looking for a true gluten free product.
Chopped mixed nuts, I used walnuts, pecans
and almonds.
Seeds today I used chia and some flour.
Dried fruit, I used raisins and craisins and
optional is a little bit of coconut sugar
or a sweetener of your choice.
But if you are using super ripe bananas, which
you should be, they should be sweet enough
on their own and you shouldn’t need any
sweetener at all.
Mix to combine.
Comment below, I want to know what your favorite
granola ingredients are.
Now it is time to incorporate the dry mixture
into the wet, again mixing until well combined,
yum.
Line a cake pan with parchment paper, today
I used a nine by nine pan and fill it with
your granola mixture.
Flatten it out nicely and bake at 350 degrees
Fahrenheit for 18 to 22 minutes.
Allow to cool completely before easily pulling
out the block using the parchment paper and
cutting into bars as you like.
So those are my lovely vegan granola bars
or in this case, squares.
They will store in the fridge for up to a
week and you could always freeze them.
The PDF download here or in the description
box below for my mobile viewers will give
you this recipe and the nutrition.
And let’s remember when it comes to nutrition
and health, that calories aren’t everything.
Yes, calories do matter, we don’t want to
over consume because if we end up eating more
calories than we need we will gain weight.
But I always try to encourage people to focus
on the ingredients that they are consuming
rather than the calories.
Think of food as fuel, so when you are making
a treat, if you have the opportunity to use
ingredients that your body will appreciate,
it’s going to be much better than consuming
something that is much more processed even
if that more processed item is a little bit
lower in calories.
Alright guys thanks for watching, I will see
you on Thursday with a brand new recipe.
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recipes every single week and be sure to check
out my meal prep e-book, and all of my free
recipes on mindovermunch.com.
And remember, it’s all a matter of Mind
Over Munch.
That’s a drum roll, easy, nope clean eating.
I want to know what your favorite granola…
bake at about 300, not at about...
Vegan, they’re gluten free.
What else are they?
