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Easy Cereal Bars Recipe

Add Step-by-Step Photos	Laurieg / All my dishes 1 year ago This is a recipe the whole family will like because you put in their favorite cereal! great for kids in the kitchen. Prep:10m Cook:20m Servings:20	Laurieg
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Ingredients

This is a recipe we came up with to replace the cereal bars sold in stores because they all contain trace amounts of almonds for some reason and my 8 yr old has a treenut allergy.

3 cups of cereal- This is great to use up the ends of all the boxes of cereal in your pantry...It is better if you use 3 different kinds but totally up to you. We have used, rice crispies,kix,reeses peanut butter,cookie crist, cheerios. For a more healthy option 2 1/2 cups of cereal and 1/2 cup of wheat germ.

2 cups quick cooking oats

1 can sweetened condensed milk

3/4 cup peanut butter chips

3/4 cup chocolate chips

These are the chips my kids like but we have used butterscotch or vanilla -whatever is in the pantry.

2 tablespoons of melted butter

cooking spray (pam)

Directions

I used a 9 X 13 pan spray very very well with pam- if not you will never get them out :)

get a extra large mixing bowl and add all the ingredients. I usually let the kids do this pour a cup of their fav in the bowl.

mix all together

spray the kids hands with pam

and let them press the mixture into the pan.

bake on 350 , if you like the cereal bars crispy bake a little longer.

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trigger 1 year ago said:
Love this a lot added it to bar Cookies bar none.
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lacrenshaw 12 months ago said:
Very nice, laurie! You have my five and my thanks for joining the group ~ ~ ~
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keni 10 months, 4 weeks ago said:
I keep coming back to this recipe...I've got to try it. :)

keni 10 months, 4 weeks ago said:
Okay...they're tried! :) Here's what I did:I doubled the recipe and used Cheerios, Corn Chex and Honey Smacks. I did only use the one can of sweet cond milk, but I added a bit of honey. I also added some raisins and the chips I used were cinnamon chips. They tasted a lot like granola bars, but not! Very good, and a great morning treat. I posted a photo, but will move it to under step by step when I can, because I will be making these again, soon, with a more colorful cereal and vanilla chips(for that "milky" taste), and that picture should be much prettier! :) Thanks, Laurie

lilliancooks 10 months, 4 weeks ago said:
I like the idea that we can add whatever we want! I'll have to try this one!

lilliancooks 10 months, 3 weeks ago said:
This was very good! I made some changes to make it very low fat. I used 1/2 the chocolate chips, but I added cranraisins. I used half the butter. I used Rice Crispies cereal and Crispix. I also made the sweetened condensed milk using the following recipe...http://www.grouprecipes.com/83320/sugar-free-fat-free-sweetened-condensed-milk.html

This worked out perfectly! If your making this for kids then I would make it as written because it may not be sweet enough for them. I will be making this many times so I can try different add-ins!

lilliancooks 10 months, 2 weeks ago said:
Okay...I made these again and I reduced the fat even more! I made it the same as I did the first time but this time I omitted the cranraisins and instead of putting the chocolate chips into the cereal, I melted them and drizzled them ontop! I used a lot less chocolate that way! I also added 1/2 tsp. almond extract into the condensed milk recipe.