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(Super Healthy) Chewy Granola Bars

(Super Healthy) Chewy Granola Bars Ingredients: oats wheat flour, white, all-purpose, unenriched wheat germ, crude salt, table spices, cinnamon, ground spices, nutmeg, ground seeds, flaxseed oil, olive, salad or cooki...

(Super Healthy) Chewy Granola Bars

Ingredients:
oats
wheat flour, white, all-purpose, unenriched
wheat germ, crude
salt, table
spices, cinnamon, ground
spices, nutmeg, ground
seeds, flaxseed
oil, olive, salad or cooking
honey
vanilla extract
molasses
applesauce, canned, unsweetened, without added ascorbic acid (includes usda commodity)

Directions:
Preheat oven to 350F.
Toast oats for 5 minutes in a dry skillet over medium heat.
Let cool.
In a large bowl, combine dry ingredients (including oats) and whisk together until well combined.
In a separate bowl, whisk together wet ingredients until well blended.
Add wet mixture to dry ingredients and blend gently until well moistened.
Add any of the suggested additions now (see Step 8).
Mixture should be moist but not too wet.
If it seems too dry and crumbly, add a little more applesauce (by the spoonful).
Line a 9in x 13in pan with parchment paper and press mixture into pan.
Bake at 350F for 30 minutes.
Cut into bars while warm, but let cool completely before removing from pan.
Suggested additions (add up to 2 cups of any of the following): chocolate chips, raisins (soaked in hot water for 10 minutes then drained), unsweetened shredded coconut, sunflower seeds (unsalted), pumpkin seeds (unsalted), dried fruit (like chopped apricots, cranberries), chopped toasted nuts.