Muesli Bars

This recipe is very versatile, very easy and so much cheaper than those you buy in the supermarket.

They freeze really well and you can cut them to sizes to suit the age and appetite of your children.

Plus, you know just what is in them and you can easily substitute some of the ingredients to suit your child's preferences or intolerances.

 

I usually double this recipe so as to use up a whole can of condensed milk (otherwise it normally goes to waste in our fridge.)

Ingredients

1/2 can of sweetened condensed milk (the skim version works just as well)

1 cup of your favourite flake type cereal (I use Just Right or similar)

1 cup rolled oats

1 cup of puffed wheat

1/4 cup chopped apple, chopped

1/4 cup dried apricots, chopped

1/4 cup sultanas

1/4 cup slivered almonds

1/4 cup sesame seeds

1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon

Method

Preheat oven to 150C. Line a slice tin (approx 18cm x 26cm) with Glad Bake or similar.

Combine all dry ingredients in a large bowl and mix together.

Add the condensed milk and mix well.

Press into slice tin and flatten down. Bake for 30 minutes or until golden brown.

Mark into bars with a sharp knife.

Cool in the tin.

Cut into bars of desired size and turn out onto cake rack to crisp up.

Enjoy!

Possible alternatives

• As our muesli bars are very often taken to school or kindy, the nuts cannot be added, so I use chopped, dried banana chips to keep that crunch component.

• Change any of the cereal components, just keep to the same quantities (don't have puffed wheat? use rice bubbles or extra rolled oats instead)

• Instead of the stated dried fruit ingredients you could use chopped dates, white or milk choc bits, or any other dried fruit you desire.
  This week we added broken up bits of leftover easter eggs - they actually worked really well and kept their shape to my surprise :)