Time to make some muesli bars today.
My biggest problem on the upcoming hike is breakfast.
I am a toast and coffee girl and thats it.
I am not a morning person.
In any shape, way or form. (especially form)
So springing out of bed and dining on something different no matter what my intentions – doesn’t work.
I have decided that the easiest thing to do will be to have my coffee, then as we set out hiking in the morning I will nibble at the muesli bars while I am getting used to being awake. There will also be trail mix and a lot of my dried apple.
Anyway, today I put together a batch of muesli bars and I was thrilled how they turned out.
I used the dried apple chopped up, broke into the walnuts and crushed them up a bit and also put in chunks of my apple/raspberry leather which really gave the bars the edge!!!
Here is the recipe in case anyone wants to give it a go:
9×9″ pan, lined with baking paper criss crossed to go up all sides.
Pre heat oven at 165C (325F)
Ingredients:
2&1/2 cups oatmeal (oats)(quick oats)
1/4 cup desiccated coconut
2 tablespoons brown sugar
1/3 cup canola oil
1/3 cup honey
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
Then 1 cup of a mix of your choice of things like walnuts/almonds/raisins/dried apricots/choc chips etc
(as mentioned above I used walnuts, dried apple and bits of my apple-raspberry fruit leather)
I mixed by spoon first then by hand.
Put all into the tin and spent quite a lot of time pressing it flat
I got another piece of baking paper and used a jar and spoon to go over and over the surface to pack it down. (Don’t forget the edges!!)
It really worked well
We have had trouble with it crumbling in the past so this extra time pressing is worth it.
Put in the oven for 30 minutes. Take out and let cool completely before trying to take it out to cut it.
Happily it didn’t fall into bits this time. It cut beautifully. I was worried as it looked dry but nope… the taste test passes muster! Love it.
Yum! Love the idea of the fruit leather in it. I must try that for my youngest who is also definitely not a morning person 😉
Oh Hazel… the fruit leather in it is really great! Totally totally doing that again!
Little tip… because its sticky, I dropped each chunk in and let it get coated with the oats which are a bit powdery… that stopped all the leather bits ending up in one big chunk.
Mornings are over rated 🙂
My goodness, I am not myself for about 30 minutes each morning. It’s like my body just won’t cooperate. I just have to keep moving around and doing things until my body decides to get with the program. It’s so bad, that I have to get every thing I can think of prepared the night before because I know then start of each of my day is slow. Your muesli bars look delicious, I need to do something like that for a daily quick breakfast. I’m excited to follow your trip!
Yup! I have learned never to think ‘I’ll just do that in the morning before I go’
Everything has to be ready!!! I actually get physically sick if I go too hard too fast of a morning!! My nurse husband rolls his eyes a lot at me! 😀