Subscribe: Email | RSS

Homemade Oats and Honey Bars

How would you like a tasty, healthy helping of fiber and antioxidants without a hassle?

I’ve got you covered with homemade oats and honey bars.

Try some delicious, nutritious homemade oatmeal bars to hit the spot.

Quick and Yummy: A Win-Win

Or maybe you’re searching for a simple snack that’s appealing and healthy?

Or perhaps you just don’t like to be bothered with fancy schmancy recipes that require a lot of preparation and clean up.

Whatever the case may be, these amazing oatmeal bars are just perfect for a lot of nourishment without a lot of work.

Grain-Sized History Lesson

Oats are the infants of the grain world.

Compared to wheat and other grains the establishment of oats as a cultivated grain for human consumption is rather recent, around 2,500 BC.

However, for most of its cultivated time, most believed that oats were too lowly to be consumed by people and were primarily used for feeding animals.

It’s unclear how this unassuming grain’s popularity crossed species. Perhaps out of practicality as the number of farm animals who depended on the grain dwindled.

But one thing’s for certain we humans don’t consume oats like a workhorse or farm cow.

Our oats are milled which removes the outer shell leaving just the seed – the whole grain oat, also known as groats. These are rolled into the shape we most often buy at the store – flat and a bit of an oval.

It’s one of the healthiest grains you can consume.

And in case you’ve ever wondered, according to the Whole Grains Council, an 18-oz package of old fashioned oats contains about 26,000 rolled oat grains.

That’s a whole lot of health in a not so large of a package.

However, if you have a gluten sensitivity, look for a gluten-free label on the package as some oats can be cross-contaminated during growing and processing.

How to Make the Magic Happen

Don’t dismiss the magic of this simple grain.

Pick up some oats this week and give my Oats and Honey bars a try.

With just a handful of ingredients, oats, honey, vanilla, and flour, and a simple preparation method you can have these delicious bars cooked up in no time.