Healthy Strawberries and Cream Granola Bars:
These filling, not overly sweet, Strawberry and cream granola bars are soft on the mouth, studded with ripe strawberries and a scattered with quinoa that adds a playful texture to each bite. No need to cook the quinoa in advance either!
Why I love these bars:
Not only are they vegan, GF, and Oil free: they are also refined sugar free. Therefor you can stick these in your child’s lunchbox, and hand them out at snack time knowing that your child is filling their stomach with whole food goodness, not empty processed calories. Now stick that in your pipe and smoke it! Okay I have no idea what that phrase means. Did I just insult my own recipe? Or you dear reader? All I know is that my mom loved that phrase. As she loved many english phrases like Hoisted by your own petard and How do you like them apples?
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Are these filling?
Serving these to my hubby he gobbled up two bars. “Oh wow, these Soooo good he said, so fruity and crumbly and So filling!”
I blushed. Not for the praise. But because I had already eaten five bars and was about to finish off a few more before lunch. Ummm. Okay note to self. More proof that I am indeed a hobbit. My toes may not be furry but inside my chest beats the heart and appetite of a hobbit. Remember the Lembas bread in Lord of the rings?
“Eat little at a time, and only at need. For these things are given to serve you when all else fails. The cakes will keep sweet for many many days, if they are unbroken and left in their leaf-wrappings, as we have brought them. One will keep a traveler on his feet for a day of long labour, even if he be one of the tall Men of Minas Tirith.”- Farewell to Lorien.
When Pippin admitted to having eaten four Lembas bread in the movie I felt a soaring kinship with him.
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Healthy Strawberries and Cream Granola Bars, Vegan, GF, Oil free
All of the flavor none of the crap! No oil, no sugar. Lots of fiber, and protein. These Strawberry bars are easy, one bowl wonders that will tide you over between meals.
- 1 cup quinoa (uncooked)
- 2 cups rolled oats
- 2 cups chopped nuts and seeds (I used a combo of pumpkin seeds and cashews.)
- 2 cups sliced strawberries (frozen will work if you defrost them first)
- 1 cup non-dairy vanilla yoghurt
- 3/4 cup tahini (or any nut butter)
- 2 ripe mashed bananas or 1/2 cup pitted dates (chopped)
- 1/2 cup aquafaba (liquid from cooking legumes)
- 1/4 cup flax seeds
- 3-5 tbsp sugar free strawberry jam (or any jam you want! I liked it without the jam but my family likes food sweeter then I do.))
Heat your oven to 350 Fahrenheit. Into a large bowl add the uncooked quinoa, rolled oats, nuts and seeds, sliced strawberries, non-dairy vanilla yogurt, aquafaba, flax seeds, mashed bananas (or dates), and the tahini. Give it a good stir. I prefer to roll up my sleeves and give it a quick (1 minute) massage as if I were massaging kale. But then again I like to play with my food.
Allow to rest ten minutes.
Line a 9X13 baking pan with parchment.
Pour in the batter, it will be quite wet. Smooth the top with a spatula. Place in the middle rack of your oven.
Bake for 20 minutes, remove from the oven and brush the jam over the top and bake for 10 more minutes. Then shut off the oven and leave the door closed for 30 minutes.
Remove from the oven. Allow to completely cool before slicing. Will keep a couple of weeks stored covered in the refrigerator.
These sound so delicious! Strawberries and cream is such a great combo! YUM
Thank you Claire, I hope you love them as much as I do!
Yummy! That’s the perfect china tea cup to go with “Pride and Prejudice”. A couple of other expressions our mother liked to use: “Look THAT up in your Funk and Wagnalls!” (from the late ’60s – early ’70s tv show “Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In” – we actually had a complete set of F&W encyclopedias, which we consulted frequently for school projects); “Put that in your pipe and smoke it!” (from her own experience? – just kidding – a version of the phrase appears in Dickens’ “Pickwick Papers”, 1836, and it was probably already well known by then).
It is Papu’s old copy of Pride and Prejudice that he gave to Livy when she turned 14. The little tea cup was Faster Edith’s. Oh my I forgot that Stick that in your Funk and Wagnell came from Laugh-in! We spent many an afternoon reading those encyclopedias and scrutinizing the photos. Keep those phrases coming!!