Showing posts with label cranberries. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cranberries. Show all posts

Saturday, January 17, 2015

Dark Chocolate Chunk Cranberry Oat Bars

I love cranberries, I eat them all year round. Craisins in my salad almost everyday, cranberry sauce pretty often, cranberry juice on occasion (I drink mostly water)
 — I love cranberries.
I also love oat bars. Oat bars are delicious baked treats usually made with rolled oats and flour. You can use any kind of jelly/preserves you like to flavor the oat bars. Lingonberries are another favorite of mine. They're extremely high in anti-oxidants and taste similar to cranberries. Lingonberry preserves are for sale at Ikea for less than $4 a jar.

I like to be creative so I've made oat bars with a variety of fruit (blueberry, lingonberry, raspberry, apricot, and cranberry). I prefer to use All Fruit, sugar-free type preserves. I've also made oat bars with banana and peanut butter and chocolate. I've added ingredients like sunflower seeds and nuts for crunch, taste, and protein.

Anyway, I had a coupon for fresh cranberries, and I confess that as much as I love cranberries I'd never bought fresh cranberries before.