Nut Free Granola Bars (No bake)
Like a lot of schools, my daughter’s is nut-free when it comes to snacks. We use nuts and nut flour for a lot of our homemade items, so sending her in with homemade snacks can sometimes be tricky. My solution was to create my own nut-free granola bars using oats, seeds, sunflower seed butter, honey, and a bit of protein powder for prolonged satiety.
The best part of this recipe is that there is no baking involved! Just mix everything in a bowl, press into a pan, and pop them in the fridge for a few hours to set.
Ingredients
2 cups organic old fashioned rolled oats
1/4 cup organic pumpkin seeds
3 tbsp organic chia seeds
2 tbsp organic shredded coconut
1 scoop unflavored protein powder
1/4 cup organic chocolate chips
1/2 cup organic sunflower butter
1 tsp organic vanilla extract
1/3 cup organic honey
1/4 tsp fine sea salt
Line an 8x8-inch square baking pan with parchment paper.
Combine oats, pumpkin seeds, chia seeds, shredded coconut, protein powder, and chocolate chips to a large mixing bowl and combine. Add sun butter, vanilla, honey, and sea salt to the dry ingredients and stir well until everything is combined.
Pour mixture into your lined baking pan or granola bar molds and press firmly using the back of a spoon or your fingers so it’s evenly spread out. Once the bars are pressed down firmly, place the pan in the fridge for 3 hours to allow the bars to set. Once set, slice into bars and enjoy. Leftovers can be stored in the refrigerator for up to a week.
I take half of the batch, wrap each bar in parchment paper, and freeze to make school snacks easy when I don’t have time to make anything. Just remove a bar from the freezer, thaw overnight in the fridge, and they are ready to go for the next day!
Notes:
If you don’t have to worry about nuts, feel free to replace the sun butter with peanut butter or almond butter.
My go to brands for this recipe:
Be Well By Kelly unflavored protein powder
HU Kitchen organic no added sugar chocolate chips
Bob’s Red Mill Gluten Free Organic Old Fashioned Rolled Oats
SunButter Organic Sunflower Butter
