Delicious granola bars

3 cups old fashioned oats

1 cup rice crispies

1 cup wheat germ

1 ½ teaspoons cinnamon

2 cups flour

handful of raisins, dried cranberries

1 ½ teaspoons salt

1 ½ cups packed brown sugar

LOTS of nuts we use raw cashews, pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds. Maybe a handful of each

Put above in bowl mix together

Then make a hole in the center and add:

1 cup honey

2 eggs

1 cup vegetable oil (going to try applesauce)

4 teaspoons vanilla extract

(you need all the sugar and honey to make it stick together, I have not found something else to use instead and not had them crumble)

Mix with spatula

9 x 13 pan lined with foil. This will make really thick chewy bars if you want them thinner use bigger pan or two smaller pans. Oven 350, cook about 25 minutes til edges are slightly brown, cut with pizza cutter before they cool. When cool transfer to sealed container to keep them from drying out with a spatula. Usually the first couple bars are hard to get out then the rest come out easily.

This is a double recipe for a big family. We can eat it in 3-4 days.