Homemade Granola Bars

I've been wanting to do this for awhile.
The first batch I made called for dates-and while delicious, they are SO expensive that it was cheaper to just buy organic granola bars!
The next batch called for an entire stick of butter--again, delicious--but too unhealthy.
I concocted these and got really lucky--turned out pretty yummy.

It yields 24 bars (which freeze really well) and cost about 38 cents each to make (about $9 worth of ingredients used).  The best price on boxes of organic granola bars I can find is $5 for an organic Cascadian Farms box of 10 at Target-- that comes to 50 cents a bar.

It's also a pretty easy recipe to let your kids help with... enjoy!

Ingredients:

2 eggs

1 cup natural peanut butter

1/4 cup brown sugar

1/4 cup honey

4 1/4 cups organic old fashioned oats

1/2 cup slivered almonds

2/3 cup dark chocolate chips

1/2 cup organic unsweetened applesauce

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350

Beat eggs in large bowl til they have lots of bubbles

Stir in peanut butter, sugar, honey.

Add the chocolate chips and almonds, then oats slowly.

One well-mixed, add the 1/2 cup applesauce and mix in well.

Spray baking pan.

Spread mixture on pan and press down to fill the pan evenly.

Bake 15 minutes, cool one hour.

Cut into 24 bars, freeze.