Trail-Tested Power Bars recipe

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Ingredients

4 cups old-fashioned rolled oats
2 cups whole wheat flour
1 cup wheat germ
½ cup wheat and barley nugget cereal (such as Grape-Nuts®)
½ cup packed brown sugar
1 ½ teaspoons ground cinnamon
1 ripe banana, mashed
2 large eggs, beaten
½ cup vegetable oil
½ cup unsweetened applesauce
⅓ cup pure maple syrup
⅓ cup honey
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 teaspoon salt
½ cup flax seeds
½ cup sesame seeds
½ cup sunflower seeds
½ cup semisweet chocolate chips
½ cup chopped banana chips
½ cup chopped walnuts
½ cup chopped almonds
½ cup chunky peanut butter

Nutrition Info

356.1 calories
carbohydrate: 42.2 g
cholesterol: 15.5 mg
fat: 18.7 g
fiber: 6.6 g
protein: 9.4 g
saturatedFat: 3.7 g
servingSize: -
sodium: 149.6 mg
sugar: 16.3 g
transFat: : -
unsaturatedFat: : -

Directions

  1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease a 9x14-inch baking pan.

  2. Mix rolled oats, whole wheat flour, cereal, brown sugar, and cinnamon together in a large bowl.

  3. Whisk banana, eggs, oil, applesauce, maple syrup, honey, vanilla extract, and salt together in a separate bowl until evenly blended. Stir into the oat mixture. Stir in flax seeds, sesame seeds, sunflower seeds, chocolate chips, banana chips, walnuts, almonds, and peanut butter.

  4. Use your hands to mix the ingredients, and press into the prepared pan.

  5. Bake in the preheated oven until edges are golden brown, 20 to 25 minutes. Cool completely in the pan, about 30 minutes. Cut into 2-inch bars.

Recipe Yield

24 bars

Recipe Note

Trail-tested power and energy bars. These granola-style bars are my mix and mod of a couple of recipes, mostly Amy E's \"Bird Seed Energy Bars\"... they made it 6 days from Mammoth to Yosemite Valley.

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