Over the next few weeks I am going to be trying out several new Muesli Bar recipes in an effort to find a substitute for those expensive, sugar laden bars you can buy at the supermarket.  The trouble is, most of the recipes I have found so far contain a puffed rice cereal such as Rice Bubbles, which is fine for five of my kids, but tends to cause spikes in my Type 1 daughter’s blood glucose levels.  So, I decided to take all of our favourite muesli bar ingredients, and have a go at creating one myself.  I will run this by a dietician friend of mine before I tag it as Diabetic Friendly, but this is what I came up with.

Bek’s Fruit Clusters

Ingredients:

1 Cup Special K Cereal

1 Cup Rolled Oats

1 Cup Fruit Medley (or chopped, dried fruit of your choice)

1/3 Cup Pepitas

1/2 Cup Sunflower Seeds

1/4 Cup Honey

80 grams melted Butter or Margarine

1/4 Cup Milk

1 egg white, lightly beaten

Method:

1.  In a large mixing bowl, combine dry ingredients.

2.  Add melted butter, milk and egg white and stir to combine.

3.  Spoon into mini muffin papers and bake until lightly golden brown at 170c.

You can bake the mixture in a lined slice tin and slice into 12 Muesli Bars like I did the first time I made it, but I thought these little clusters would be a nice change for the kids (visual trickery!), and a smaller portion for a light snack.

I have also added some Craisins to these Clusters at the request of my Type 1’er.

If you are looking for a breakfast bar for yourself, double the recipe but still bake in the slice tin.  This gives you a thicker bar more suited to an adult serve.