Deliciously Nutritious
|by Krystal
Barschig
Author of My Botanical Baby
Banana Date Oatmeal Bars
These vegan, sugar-free Banana Date Oatmeal Bars are the perfect grab-n-go snack for mommy,
baby, and big kid alike! They’re sweet, chewy, and packed full of good for you real-food ingredients!
Ingredients
• 6 dates, pitted
• 3 tbs water reserved from soaking dates
• 1 cup Bob’s Red Mill Quick Cooking Rolled
Oats
• 1/2 cup oat flour
• 1 tbs ground flaxseeds
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1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
2 very ripe bananas, mashed
1/3 cup almond butter*
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 tbs coconut oil, melted
Instructions
1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
2. Bring a small pot of water to a boil. Place
dates in the water, and turn off the heat.
Soak the dates for 10 minutes while you prepare the rest of the ingredients.
3. In a small mixing bowl, mix oats, oat flour,
ground flaxseeds, and cinnamon.
4. In a separate larger mixing bowl, combine
the bananas, almond butter, vanilla extract,
and coconut oil.
5. Remove the softened dates from the hot water, and puree in a food processor with 3 tbs
of water from the pot. Add the date puree to
the banana mixture.
6. Add the dry oat mixture to the wet banana
mixture, and stir to combine.
7. Line an 8×8-inch baking tin with parchment
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paper, and pour the banana-oat mixture into
the pan. Smooth with a spatula.
8. Bake for 25-30 minutes.
9. Remove baked oats from the pan, along
with the parchment paper. Allow to cool on
a cooling rack, and then cut evenly into 16
mini Banana Date Oatmeal Bars.
Please Note
If your baby is less than a year old and you’re
trying to avoid added salt in his diet, choose
almond butter that doesn’t have any added salt.
It’s a good habit to check the ingredient list on
your nut butters anyway because lots of them
add sugar and/or partially hydrogenated oils.
The ingredients should just read: “Almonds” or
“Dry Roasted Peanuts,” for example.