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Kid-Friendly Treat: Best Ever Granola
By Cheryl Tallman and Joan Ahlers
Granola can be great tasting hippie food, but buyer beware. On one side, some of the packaged brands cram a lot of unfamiliar flavors in
the mix. While these ingredients are often healthy, the flavors can be tough to swallow for kids. On the flip side, the more mainstream
brands cram a lot sugar and artificial ingredients into their products which put them on par with the nutritional value of a candy bar.
Sticking to basic ingredients is the trick.
Simple flavors - oatmeal, pecans and cranberries baked with natural goodness. This recipe is so simple, that homemade granola may soon
become a staple in your house for breakfasts and snacks! Best Granola Ever is perfect for family members 3-99 years old.
Ingredients:
4 cups of old-fashioned oats
1 ½ cups chopped pecans
½ cup packed brown sugar
½ tsp salt
½ tsp cinnamon
¼ cup cooking oil
¼ cup honey
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup dried cranberries
Directions:
Preheat over to 300 degrees. In a large bowl, mix the oats, pecans, salt and cinnamon. In a saucepan warm the oil and honey and stir in the vanilla. Carefully pour the liquid over the oat mixture. Stir gently with a wooden spoon until the mixture is evenly coated.
Spread the granola onto a large cookie sheet (15X10X1 inch). Bake 40 minutes, stirring carefully every 10 minutes. Remove from oven and cool completely. Stir in dried cranberries.
Storage: Store granola in an air-tight container at room temperature for one week or in the freezer for 3 months.
About the Author: Cheryl Tallman and Joan Ahlers are sisters, the mothers of five children, and founders of Fresh Baby.
Raised by parents who love fresh foods and entertaining, their mom, a gourmet cook, ensured that they were well-equipped
with extraordinary skills in the kitchen. Both with long track records of business success, they decided to combine their
skills in the kitchen with their knowledge of healthy foods and children to create Fresh Baby. Cheryl and Joan put a modern
twist on the conventional wisdom that when you make it yourself, you know it's better. Their goal at Fresh Baby is to make
the task of raising a healthy eater a little bit easier for all parents. Visit them online at www.FreshBaby.com and subscribe
to their Fresh Ideas newsletter to get monthly ideas, tips and activities for developing your family's healthy eating habits!
Let's Get Cooking!
While there are many reasons for teaching kids to cook -- less expensive than eating out, preserves family heritage, etc, the most important
reason is that by teaching your child to cook, you're giving him a better chance to be a healthy grown-up. Enabling your child with the ability
to appreciate freshness and to transform ingredients into tasty foods opens their eyes to making wiser choices about what to eat...
Kid-Friendly Treat: Best Ever Granola
Let's Get Cooking!
