So considerably better than store-bought! These tender and chewy banana bread granola bars are made with none refined sugars or oils, and LOADED with chocolate and banana flavour! They’re gluten-free and vegan, with a better protein risk for people who want it.The appropriate easy and healthful snack.
Among the many many many finest components about having a meals allergy is that it forces you to be extra acutely aware of what you’re putting into your physique [so that you can avoid dying and/or getting very sick].
Having been blessed born with a excessive peanut allergy, I’ve virtually been attempting over components labels since I found the way in which during which throughout which to be taught, and it’s a bit scary whilst you perceive how plenty crap goes into the meals we eat.
I counsel, you’ve gotta adore it when chances are high excessive you might’t even pronounce half of the problems on a file that’s a mile prolonged; and of the belongings you can pronounce, half say one challenge like: artificial colours, artificial flavours, extreme fructose corn syrup, BHA, BHT, sodium benzoate, potassium sorbate, and so forth., and so forth., wtf.
Uhm. Yum? These sound large tasty ?
The utterly completely totally different good challenge about dwelling with a meals allergy (#gratitude), is that it forces you do fairly just a few cooking/baking at residence.
Dwelling proof: I can’t eat most store-bought granola bars. The reality is, I don’t even suppose I ever had one as a toddler on account of there wasn’t a tonne of allergy consciousness as quickly as additional in as of late, and from what I take into accout, every bar had peanuts, nuts, and/or traces of one or the other.
You don’t even KNOW the type of joyful dances I did after I found that widespread granola bar producers is also coming out with a nut-free line… solely to be utterly underwhelmed after I lastly tried them.
So what’s a Spoon to do when she wants a useful and actually satisfying snack bar nonetheless can’t uncover one which gained’t put her in a hospital?
She makes her private!
… they often rock.her.socks.applicable off.
You guys know I like my tender and chewy protein granola bars (I’ve most likely made 100+ batches at this stage??), nonetheless I’m tempted to say that these banana bread granola bars may merely give the distinctive mannequin a run for its money — for pretty a lot of straightforward causes:
I like bananas.
I like oats.
I like almond butter.
I like chocolate.
And I like that these bars COMBINE ALL FOUR in a tender and chewy transportable morsel of deliciousness that tastes equal to a slice of day earlier (i.e. the right selection!) banana bread and doesn’t go away you wanting extra.
Nutritious, filling, chocolatey, banana-y, sweet, and — have I mentioned — tender and chewy?!
Nonetheless the right half issss –> no sketchy components!! None! No chemical compounds, no preservatives, no artificial this or that. Heck, no refined sugars within the least, counting on what kind of chocolate chips you benefit from.
Nothing nonetheless healthful, pure components in these useful and actually satisfying bars.
Completely blissful consuming!
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Snug and Chewy Banana Bread Granola Bars
Full Time:
half-hour
Yield:
10–12 bars 1x
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 350F (176C) and put collectively an 8×8 (20cm x 20cm) baking pan by lining it with a sheet of aluminum foil or parchment paper, leaving pretty a lot of inches of overhang on the sides to allow for easy eradicating. Put apart.
- In a vast mixing bowl, combine the oats, flax, and salt. Put apart.
- In a medium-sized mixing bowl, combine the mashed banana, nut butter, sweetener, and vanilla, mixing until the local weather are absolutely blended and the mix is straightforward. Pour the moist mix into the dry mix and stir until each half is completely included. Fold all by means of the chocolate chips.
- Pour the batter into your prepared baking pan, and use a greased spatula or your arms to unfold the mix evenly all by way of the pan.
- Bake for 18-20 minutes, until the right devices and the sides begin to present golden brown.
- Take away the pan from the oven and let the bars cool all by means of the pan for ~quarter-hour previous to using a sharp knife to cut them into specific particular particular person bars. Retailer them in a sealed container at room temperature for as hundreds as 5 days, or all by means of the fridge for as hundreds as 2 weeks.
Notes
* To make these PROTEIN granola bars, add 1/2 cup of your favourite protein powder to the dry mix, and a further 1/4 cup of almond milk to the moist mix.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Put collectively dinner dinner Time: 20 minutes
In quest of extra healthful granola bar recipes? Try one among these!
Snug and Chewy Protein Granola Bars
Strawberry Banana Oat Bars
Snug and Chewy Pumpkin Granola Bars
Blueberry Almond Oat Bars
Honey Almond Granola Bars
