Granola Bars

We have been searching for a granola bar for a while now. Gabe likes the shiny wrappers. The last 5 attempts to get him to eat the homemade ones have failed miserably. But now I have one.

Dry Ingredients:
3 cups Rolled Oats
1.5 cups Brown Rice Cereal
1 cup Whole Wheat Flour
1 tsp Baking Soda
1/2 tsp Salt

Wet Ingredients:
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup Peanut Butter
1/2 cup honey
1/2 cup Brown Rice Syrup
1 tsp Vanilla

2 cups of add ins (we use nuts, seeds, and chocolate chips...but anything will do)

Mix dry ingredients. Heat wet ingredients until all melted and bubbly (about 5 min after butter melts on medium heat). Mix wet and dry then add the add ins. Put in a greased 9x13 pan and bake at 325 for 5 min. Cool, cut, then put in freezer to harden. Package up and store in air tight container or fridge.

A couple of hints...use natural Peanut Butter so you are not adding more sugar. 1/2 Cup of chocolate chips is plenty. You can use 1 Cup of butter and eliminate peanut butter. You can use more rolled oats and not Brown Rice Cereal. You can use all honey if you don't have the brown rice syrup.

I got 24 bars out of these.

These are modified from Kitchen Stewardship and Passionate Homemaking.