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Granola bars are famous for their small size, and it is so easy to make, you can only use a combination of healthy ingredients to make the most delicious granola bars ever.

This Swiss snack is so healthy for your kids, and you will find that each bar of this snack is irresistible, fat-free, and make you feel full quickly.

Granola bars are the best summer snack, all the kids like having those bars so much especially after spending a long day because they are very low in fiber and high in protein which makes this snack is your best choice for your kids.

Granola bars Nutrition Facts:

Each bar of this snack has its own nutrition facts, so we will tell you those facts:

•  This snack has 471 Calories
•  This snack is free-cholesterol
•  This snack’s Sodium is 294 mg
•  This snack’s Potassium is 336 mg
•  Its Total Carbohydrate is 64 g
•  It has 10 g of protein
•  The proportion of calcium in this snack is almost 6%
•  The proportion of magnesium in this snack is about 24%
•  It has a high iron percentage also, which is 16%
•  Its sugars are only 7g
•  It has 7 mg of vitamin E

The total Time for having 14 bars of granola:

This snack is so easy, and it does not need too much time for making it, so we will tell you the exact time to make 14 bars of this delicious snack.

Preparation time is 15 minutes

Cook time is 25 minutes

Total Time is 40 minutes

Ingredients:

First, you need to know that this snack requires only 5 main ingredients plus two optional add-ingredients, and all of them are natural.

•  ¼  cup of nut butter such as (almond butter or cashew butter or peanut butter)
•  1 cup of nuts such as (almonds or peanuts or cashews or hazelnuts)
•  2 cups of rolled oats
•  1/2 cup honey
•  1 cup packed dates it can be pitted or medjool
•  ½ cup of any of those extras such as “chocolate chips, dried fruit like cranberries, raisins, apricots, coconut” (Optional)
•  ½ teaspoon vanilla or cinnamon and pumpkin pie spice mix or some salt (Optional)

Directions for making Granola Bars:

1-   You need to toast the oats and nuts first, so you have to preheat your oven to 350 F (180C)

2-   Spread the oats and coconut across a baking sheet

3-   Toasting the oats and nuts will take almost 15 minutes, and you will know that they are ready when they are golden and fragrant

4-   Transfer The oats and nuts to a large mixing bowl

5-   Warm honey, peanut butter, vanilla extract, and salt in low heat and put them all at a small saucepan

6-   Cook them all and stir until they are smooth

7-   If you have chocolate chips or anything else melty and you want to add them to the bars, you need to let the mixture cool before adding them then mix them well (optional)

8-   Pour the honey mixture over the oats and coconut

9-   Stir them to coat and then spread the mixture evenly into the prepared baking dish

10- If you want crunchy granola bars, you need to bake them in the oven for about 15 minutes

11- Be sure that they are completely cool before cutting

12-  It is better to use a sharp knife to slice them up into bar shapes

–  Go and try this snack and tell us what do you think about it