Homemade oatmeal* bars and Silk Spectre II’s hair
Comments (24) Since I’ve been dwelling so much on how much sugar is in all the granola and protein bars I eat, Steven and I decided to make some of our own.
The base has whole wheat flour, wheat germ, oatmeal, eggs, honey, apple butter and vanilla. We split the base so I could add fruit to one half and Steven could add almonds and fruit to his. After you mix it all up, you put it into a pan and bake it in the oven.
I started by adding dried prunes and apricots to mine…
…then decided it need some red, so I threw in some cranberries.
Steven’s bars are the thick ones on the left, mine are on the right.
The “Fruity” bars have about 115 calories per bar.
The “Nutty” bars have about 180 calories** per bar.
The bars have a “healthy” taste to them. They are soft, but a bit chewy. I like that they aren’t very complicated, and were super easy to make. I think I am going to wrap them up in plastic wrap to eat throughout the week.
I keep feeling like I should apologize for dwelling so much on exercise, health, nutrition/food, and body image. But, writing about those things is kind of like therapy for me. It gets redundant, I know. Thanks for sticking around.
*I was going to call them “granola bars,” but they don’t actually have any granola in them. Oatmeal bar sounds like a dessert!
**These bars were higher in calories because we made them thicker and cut them larger.
Side Note: Did anyone else see Watchmen this weekend? Did anyone else wonder how, during the fight scene in the jail, Silk Spectre II could possibly keep her hair out of her face while fighting?
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