Fast, simple, and nutritious, these No-Bake Oatmeal Bars are a regular, on-the-run breakfast in our home. Feel free to add raisins, nuts or dried cranberries to the mix! It's important to me to have full bellies in the morning in the simplest way possible.
No-Bake Oatmeal Bars
1/2 cup brown sugar (or Sucanat)
2/3 cup honey
2 Tablespoons butter
2 teaspoons vanilla
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon salt
4 1/2 cups Rolled Oats (I've used Old Fashion Oats too--both work fine)
1/2 cup raisins or dried cranberries (optional)
1/2 cup nuts (optional)
Use cooking spray or butter to grease an 8x8 baking dish
Place the oats and optional raisins or nuts into a large bowl
In a medium sized sauce pan, melt brown sugar, honey, butter, vanilla and salt over medium heat. Bring mixture to a boil and keep boiling for 60 second. It will look like this:
Dump honey mixture over the oats and mix very thoroughly until all oats are moistened.
Grease hands and press oats firmly into the greased 8x8 baking dish. Let oats cool at room temperature before cutting into bars. Bars will be tender and chewy. If you want firmer bars, boil the sugar mixture an additional 60 seconds.
These are a hit with the whole family! Yum!
Oatmeal and organic raisins are staple foods in our family. The best price I've found is to buy them in bulk from Amazon with their Subscribe and Save discount. I love having it delivered to my door, and I never run out!
YuM! :) How much do you pay for oatmeal? :)
ReplyDeleteI buy 4 containers at a time of Quaker Oats Oatmeal, Old Fashioned,(42-Ounce Containers)on Amazon shipped to my door for $12.17, so that works out to $3.04 per package (close to the price in the stores). I shop at Trader Joes and they sell oats in smaller amounts for a higher price. To avoid going to an extra store with the kiddos, Amazon has been a great solution.
ReplyDeleteWe buy them bulk from the Amish, so I'll have to ask my hubby what the price was last time and see if it would be a better deal! Thanks! :)
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