Granola Bars

Every once in awhile I go through my cupboards and refrigerator looking for odds and ends that I want to use up and get rid of. Sometimes this challenges my creativity as I come across things that I would never put together, only to find an online recipe for that very combination. Other times I find that I'm sick of an ingredient and want to get rid of it, only to find a great recipe that makes me keep buying it. Rarely, I find exactly everything that I want to make a recipe of my choice. This weekend I realized that I bought most of the ingredients for Healthy 5-Ingrediant Granola bars by the Minimalist Baker.

I didn't have almonds for this recipe but I had pumpkin seeds, which worked great. My little food processor is on the blink so I chopped the dates finely instead of processing them into a paste. I also forgot to heat the honey and peanut butter but it just made for a little more effort mixing things together. These were quick to make and turned out to be quite tasty. They were a little loose to hold together but I guess it is because the dates were only chopped. I would make these again.