Recipes for Cereal Bars or Healthy Muffins

google chewy granola bars with dried fruit its mainly oats, different dried fruits and nuts you toast the oatmeal and nuts in the oven until the nuts smell nutty and then mix them with different dried fruits honey and you can even put some peanut butter and chocolate chips in them (best would be dark chocolate mini chips they are better for you) and put them in a greesed pan and let them set

I've used the one below (and my son LOVES it!). Cliff Bars makes an organic soft bar for kids called "Z Bars". They're so good, we all eat them. Target, Sam's & some grocery stores sell them. My son is partial to their Honey Graham.

Banana Nut Cheerios® Energy Bars
Banana Nut Cheerios® cereal and peanut butter stir up into an easy no-bake snack bar.
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Prep Time:20 min
Start to Finish:50 min
24 bars

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4 cups Banana Nut Cheerios® cereal
1 cup sweetened dried cranberries
1/3 cup slivered almonds, toasted
1/3 cup roasted unsalted sunflower nuts
1/2 cup light corn syrup
1/4 cup packed brown sugar
1/4 cup creamy peanut butter
1 teaspoon vanilla

1. Spray 9-inch square pan with cooking spray. In large bowl, mix cereal, cranberries, almonds and sunflower nuts.
2. In 2-quart saucepan, heat corn syrup, brown sugar and peanut butter to boiling over medium-high heat, stirring constantly. Boil and stir 1 minute. Remove from heat; stir in vanilla.
3. Pour syrup mixture over cereal mixture; toss to coat. Press firmly in pan. Cool completely, about 30 minutes. For bars, cut into 6 rows by 4 rows.

I made pumpkin muffins this week and we all loved them! Canned pumpkin, oats, yogurt instead of butter, they were delicious! Here is the recipe:

1 1/2 cups flour
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp ground ginger
1 egg
2/3 light brown sugar (you might be able to find a sugar substitute online)
1/4 cup vegetable oil (I omitted this, they turned out fine and still delicious)
1/2 cup canned pumpkin
1/2 cup lowfat plain yogurt (I used what we had, which was my kids cherry yogurt, still delicious!)
1 cup uncooked oatmeal
1/2 cup golden or dark raisins (I omitted this as well because I have a baby and didn't want her to have them)

Preheat to 350. Grease muffin pan. Stir in everything but flour, oatmeal and raisins until blended. Stir in flour. Stir in oatmeal and raisins. Bake for 25 minutes.