I don’t know about you but with the hot summer months, I’m not a fan of large meals and I don’t tend to have a sweet tooth.  That’s why I’m sharing this super easy, healthy and tasty fruit and nut bar recipe which has dried fruit and nuts and no chocolate in this bar recipe…sorry :(.  And let’s face it, nuts and dried fruit are much better than ice cream as they are all protein based (mostly).

So, I was first introduced to making granola bars, fruit bars and any other type of bars when my daughter was playing club soccer last year, I felt it was important to have something a little on the healthier side and since she’s not a little girl anymore, she would want something more healthier and protein based.  I fell in love with a few recipes and started bringing the bars to the games, the girls LOVED my granola bars so it was really a win-win situation for me as I found it to be very rewarding making them for the girls.

Last weekend my husband and I were going to a retreat and I happen to have a “kind plus bar”…OMG, it was delicious so upon my return, I thought I’d try to recreate it.  So I took the basics from one of my other recipes and created this fruit and nut bar, I used corn syrup instead of honey for a few reasons, in using the honey/brown sugar option, the consistency is not what I wanted so I tried using only 1/4 cup of corn syrup, no sugar, and no chocolate.  Basically, that equates to is 1 teaspoon of corn syrup per serving.  If you want to use a honey/brown sugar type of recipe, pop me an email at Patty@MmGood.com and I’d be happy to forward you the different ratio.

Toast your nuts (although toasting them is not mandatory), if you watch my youtube video it will give you a quick tip, I did cashews and almonds because it’s what I had at home, next time I’d also add walnuts  and pistachio (same ratio of nuts though)

and put all my dried fruit (I used dried cranberries and dried blueberries), seeds (I used pumpkin, sunflower and sesame) and coconut (again you don’t have to use any of these varieties only the same ratios)

I mixed the nuts with the dried fruit and put in my 1/4 cup corn syrup

placed it in an aluminum foiled lined and sprayed pan…to keep my bars equal in size I did a little trick you will have to watch on my youTube channel.

After baking I let them sit to cool off completely so that the aluminum foil didn’t stick to the bottom of the bars, I removed the foil…OMG is this a beautiful and tasty bar…if you watched my youTube channel you would know exactly how I got it so perfect in consistency

I then sliced my healthy bars into 12 equal pieces and I placed them in a container, I used parchment to separate the bars to avoid them sticking.  As you can see from my photo I have the parchment between them here as well.

I hope you enjoy this healthy bar recipe, it’s super easy and much healthier then most “go to” snacks we go to.

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Here is a video tutorial of me showing you how easy this recipe really is to make, it was my first time making this recipe but it was delicious!!!  Please visit my YouTube channel and subscribe and like my videos, it encourages me to continue making them and thank you again for all the support I receive and the emails.

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