Great snack!

So I am always on the look out for great healthy ( and cheap) snacks and meals for my family. Well I found one that i wanted to share with everyone. It is super cheap to make and even my picky eater likes it. You can add whatever your family likes to it. I add 1/4 cup of ground flaxseed , a 1/4 cup wheat germ, and 1 tablespoon of peanut butter to mine for added nutrition. You can add raisins, coconut, Peanut butter, whatever you can think of with in reason.

Easy Granola


1 stick of butter
1/2 cup of honey
4 cups rolled oats

Melt butter and honey ( I melted my PB too at this stage). Pour over oats and stir well. This is when I mixed in my flaxseed ( which is a great heart healthy addition- you can usually find it in your baking aisle and it is cheap!) and my wheat germ ( this adds fiber- I found in the cereal aisle on one of the top shelves). Put on a cookie sheat ( I added 1/4 cup mini chocolate chips over the top and squashed it all down at this point, but you don't have to) and bake for 10 minutes at 400 degrees. You can stir it and bake for another 5 minutes. If you boil the butter and honey for 1 minute and do not stir after baking, when cooled these will stick together more like the granola bars.

We put ours in a Tupperware when it was cooled and we have eaten it like cold cereal, you can eat it alone, or you can sprinkle some over low fat vanilla yogurt and it is really good. All of my kids eat this. We call it crumbly candy bars. ( we don't do the candy bar thing in my house so to them this is candy!) I love this recipe because it made so much and it smelled great cooking to! Plus it is high in fiber so it feels the kids up ( my kids seem like bottomless pits sometimes) ! You can send this in Ziploc bags for snacks for school or picnics. Just thought I would share! Have a great day everyone!