Heart Healthy Oatmeal Berry Granola Bars
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This heart healthy homemade oatmeal berry granola bar recipe is gluten free, delicious and easy to make, perfect for breakfast or an on-the-go snack!
Last week my friends at San Diego 6 News asked me to host a segment on “Heart Healthy Dishes”.
I knew I wanted to make my healthy and delicious Sweet Potato Black Bean Quinoa Burgers, loaded with heart healthy ingredients. I also wanted to throw a couple of new recipes in the mix!
These Heart Healthy Granola Bars are the first of two new recipes I premiered on the show, the other, a Heart Healthy Fruit Smoothie Recipe!
Oatmeal Berry Granola Bar Recipe Ingredients
- 2 cups oats
- 1 cup almonds
- ¼ cup flax seed
- 1 cup dried blueberries
- 1 cup dried cranberries
- 1 tsp olive oil
- ½ cup honey
Oatmeal Berry Granola Bar Recipe Instructions
Preheat the oven to 350°F.
Add all of the ingredients to a food processor.
Blend until ingredients are well combined and sticky.
Spread the mixture on to a baking sheet.
Bake for 20 minutes.
Remove from the oven and slice into bars or cut into fun shapes with cookie cutters. I went with circles, but hearts for Valentine’s Day, stars for 4th of July or shamrocks for St Patricks Day would be fun!
So much healthiness for your heart in these delicious little bars!
Soluble fiber which can lower cholesterol levels from the oats, polyphenols from the blueberries which have antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties, the olive oil, high in monounsaturated fat, also known as “heart healthy fat” and the flax seed full of omega 3 fatty acids and fiber!
Heart Healthy Oatmeal Berry Granola Bars
Ingredients
- 2 cups oats
- 1 cup almonds
- ¼ cup flaxseed
- 1 cup dried blueberries
- 1 cup dried cranberries
- 1 tsp olive oil
- ½ cup honey
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350°F.
- Add all of the ingredients to a food processor.
- Blend until ingredients are well combined and sticky.
- Spread the mixture on to a parchment lined baking sheet.
- Bake for 20 minutes.
- Remove from the oven and slice into bars or cut into shapes with cookie cutters
Nutrition Facts
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11 Comments on “Heart Healthy Oatmeal Berry Granola Bars”
My brother is a very much of a busy- body… always at the office. He asked if I could make him some healthy snacks, bars, cookies… whatever he could just grab an go with dried fruit… he even mentioned vegetables in his bars an cookies! THAT was a shock! I would so invite ideas an recipes. I was a school cook back in the day an we would serve a very delicious breakfast bar with dried fruit like prunes, cranberries, blueberries.. spices like cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, all spice, an veggies as with carrots, zuchini, bananas, beans. If you have any recipes with ingredients mentioned (an more types of fruit, spices or veggies ofcorse) please email me at cindyplank@yahoo.com. Thank you so much! Cindy
“Thanks for the information!! “
I plan to My husband has to watch his sugar intake, would it change anything other than taste to cut back on some of the added honey?
*I plan to make this for my husband He has to… Haha Sorry about that! (Multitasking)
Hi Elle, the honey is also a binder, so you would need to replace it with something else or unfortunately I don’t think the bars would stick together. I would try adding almond butter to replace the honey as a binder.
I want to make these as a snack for my son to take to school. but there is a boy with a nut allergy. would it be okay to skip the almonds? Or is there something i could replace them with?
Hi Ashley, yes, you can leave out the almonds. I would add 1/2 cup additional oats and a 1/2 cup additional dried cranberries or blueberries.
Looks good, but the Nutrition data of the bars would be even greater.
Hi Sharon, if you cut the recipe into 10 bars, each bar has 305 calories, 9 grams of protein and 7 grams of fiber.
Love, love this recipe! I do have a question: is 1 recipe suppose to spread completely over the pan? To what thickness is it to be spread? Thanks!
Thanks so much Jodie! I would spread the recipe to about 1/4 inch thickness, depending on the size of your pan will depend if it fits the entire pan. I used a traditional baking sheet and it covered about 3/4 of the sheet. Enjoy 🙂