{"id":3048,"date":"2013-03-26T10:04:01","date_gmt":"2013-03-26T00:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/plate4eight.com\/?p=3048"},"modified":"2023-06-20T09:02:29","modified_gmt":"2023-06-19T23:02:29","slug":"light-tasty-muesli-bars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plate4eight.com\/?p=3048","title":{"rendered":"Light & Tasty Muesli Bars"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If you follow me on Facebook then you will know that last week I was busy trying out new Muesli Bar recipes for my Lunch box site thelittlelunchbox.com<\/a>.  The results were mixed, but we loved this recipe so much I decided I would copy my post here on Plate4Eight. If you have never tried making your own Muesli Bars before I would urge you to give it a go.  It’s so much cheaper and healthier than the bought options, and once you find a great base recipe that you like, you can substitute flavours for the ones you like.  So here it is……..<\/p>\n

I tried three new Muesli Bar recipes last week.  One was far too sweet to be called a muesli bar, one was so-so, and this one was perfect.  I\u2019ve had this recipe in my Bookmarks for a while now, but I rarely have Rice Bubbles in the house because they send Miss 9\u2032s Blood Glucose Levels soaring, but this week when I looked at all of the other nutritious ingredients in the recipe I decided to give it a try and I bought a bag of Rice Bubbles (which are now very well hidden).  I wish I had tried it sooner, this recipe from Kidspot<\/a> (which was apparently inspired by a Julie Goodwin recipe) is a nice, light muesli bar unlike some of the jaw munchers  I have tried in the past.  It\u2019s full of things like craisins, sesame seeds, sunflower seeds and sultanas and makes a great on-the-go breakfast for busy mums as well as a nice lunch box snack for the kids.  And you could easily change-up the ingredients to suit yourself.  Next time I think I am going to try dried apricots.  Kidspot didn\u2019t actually give them a name, so I\u2019m going to call them Light & Tasty Muesli Bars.  Light as in not heavy, not light as in low fat or anything because I\u2019m not a nutritionist, so I haven\u2019t done any calculations, but I do consider it to be a reasonably healthy option for my kid\u2019s lunch boxes.<\/p>\n

Light & Tasty Muesli Bars<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ingredients:<\/strong><\/p>\n

2 Cups Rolled Oats (preferably not quick oats)<\/p>\n

1 1\/2 Cups Rice Bubbles (puffed rice)<\/p>\n

1\/2 Cup Craisins<\/p>\n

1\/2 Cup Sultanas or Currants (I used Sultanas)<\/p>\n

1\/2 Cup Desiccated Coconut<\/p>\n

1\/4 Cup Sesame Seeds<\/p>\n

1\/4 Cup Sunflower Seeds or Linseeds (I used Sunflower)<\/p>\n

150g Butter, diced<\/p>\n

2\/3 Cup Honey<\/p>\n

1\/3 Cup Caster Sugar (I used Regular because that is all I had)<\/p>\n

Directions:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Preheat oven to 180\u00b0C. If using fan-forced, 160\u00b0C.<\/p>\n

Grease a lamington pan or one of similar sizing and line with greaseproof\/baking paper.  Grease the paper over the top to hold in place.<\/p>\n

Mix the oats, rice bubbles, craisins, currants, coconut, sesame seeds and sunflower seeds in a large bowl.<\/p>\n

Heat the butter, sugar and honey in a saucepan, melt the butter and stir to combine all ingredients, simmer until mixture becomes more syrupy and honeycomb colour.  Take off the heat.<\/p>\n

Stir liquid gradually into the dry ingredients and when well combined, spoon into pan\/tin.  Press down well\u2026 put into the oven for 20 minutes.<\/p>\n

The mix should be golden brown on top when you take it out of the oven.  Cool in the tray.<\/p>\n

I recommend putting this bar in the fridge for a little while before you attempt to slice it up because it will just fall apart if you don\u2019t let it set first.  It\u2019s so yummy I have actually wondered if you could break it up into little clusters and use it as a breakfast cereal.  My girls would love that!<\/p>\n

I sourced this recipe at http:\/\/www.kidspot.com.au\/best-recipes\/Cakes-&-Baking+20\/Easy-school-lunch-muesli-bars-recipe+2815.htm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  If you follow me on Facebook then you will know that last week I was busy trying out new Muesli Bar recipes for my Lunch box site thelittlelunchbox.com.  The results were mixed, but we loved this recipe so much I decided I would copy my post here on Plate4Eight. If you have never tried …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"loftocean_post_format_gallery":"","loftocean_post_format_gallery_ids":"","loftocean_post_format_gallery_urls":"","loftocean_post_format_video_id":0,"loftocean_post_format_video_url":"","loftocean_post_format_video_type":"","loftocean_post_format_video":"","loftocean_post_format_audio_type":"","loftocean_post_format_audio_url":"","loftocean_post_format_audio_id":0,"loftocean_post_format_audio":"","loftocean-featured-post":"","loftocean-like-count":0,"loftocean-view-count":1168,"tinysalt_single_post_intro_label":"","tinysalt_single_post_intro_description":"","tinysalt_hide_post_featured_image":"","tinysalt_post_featured_media_position":"","tinysalt_single_site_header_source":"","tinysalt_single_custom_site_header":"0","tinysalt_single_custom_sticky_site_header":"0","tinysalt_single_custom_sticky_site_header_style":"sticky-scroll-up","tinysalt_single_site_footer_source":"","tinysalt_single_custom_site_footer":"0","footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14,32],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plate4eight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3048"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plate4eight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plate4eight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plate4eight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plate4eight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3048"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/plate4eight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4648,"href":"https:\/\/plate4eight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3048\/revisions\/4648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plate4eight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plate4eight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plate4eight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}