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A lot of things have kept me from the blog so I’m sorry if you’ve been patiently waiting for the recipes I promised. Without further delay then, here’s the breakfast cookie’s my friend Heather shared with me;
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Breakfast Cookie
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2 cups wheat flour
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2 cups oatmeal
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½ cup oil
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½ cup brown sugar
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½ cup milk
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1 t. baking soda
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½ t. salt
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1 ½ tsp. cinnamon
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raisins, nuts or chocolate chips optional
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Bake at 350 for 12-15 minutes.
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We like these warm from the oven in a bowl crushed up with milk but we also eat them like “cookies” on the go. When my son was detasseling corn and had to be up at the crack of dawn he would often take these for the bus ride. The kids on the bus decided they shouldn’t be called cookie’s because they’re healthy and that would just be wrong.
I use regular (not instant) oats and we always add raisons, other’s I know add chocolate chips and use instant oats. The old fashioned oats give it a drier, more granola like texture while the instant make them smoother like a cookie texture.
Typically I make a double batch and we eat half that morning. The other half I freeze in a 1 quart freezer bag for another day.
The next on the go recipe we’ve just recently found is granola bars. This one is adapted from the recipe in Dining on a Dime Cookbook (which by the way has some really good stuff!)
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Granola Bars
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½ cup brown sugar
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½ cup sugar
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½ cup margarine, softened
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2 T. molasses
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½ tsp. vanilla
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1 egg
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1 cup flour
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1 tsp. cinnamon
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½ tsp. salt
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½ tsp. baking soda
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1 ½ cups old fashioned oats
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1 cup graham cracker crumbs
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Starting at the top mix ingredients together (sugar’s and margarine first then adding each in order and stirring.) Grease a 9 X13 pan and press mixture evenly in pan. Microwave on medium power (50%) for 7-9 minutes. Cool and cut into bars. They do firm up as they stand (if you can wait that long!)
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I had tried other granola bar recipes before that required you to make “granola” first and then turn them into bars. These are much easier and are more of a chewy granola bar. They went fast at our house! If you’ve got an easy one too please share!
Again with these like the cookies, make double, eat one and freeze one!
Well that’s all for now. I’m planning two more installments in the breakfast series so check back. | 
