Breakfast oatmeal bars

Getting a healthy, hearty start to the day is easy with these scrumptious breakfast ideas.


Morning feast - Monday.

Ingredients (makes 16):
5 cups oatmeal, toasted
75g butter, melted
1 1/2 cups dried apple and cranberry mix (sold pre-packaged at supermarkets)
2 1/2 cups ground almond meal
1 cup almonds, chopped
3 tbsp honey

Method:
1. Pre-heat oven to 175 deg C. In a bowl, combined the toasted oatmeal and butter. Then add the dried apple and cranberry mix, almond meal, almonds and honey.
2. Lay a baking tray with parchment paper and spread the oatmeal mixture evenly over the base. Flatten with a spoon.
3. Bake in the oven for 20 minutes until golden brown. Remove from oven, and leave to cool before cutting into bars to serve.

Tips:
Make these the night before and store in ziplock bags in the fridge. To serve, reheat in a toaster for 3 minutes. They can last a week.

Recipe source: Simply Her magazine (May 2008)