I love eating breakfast. I’ve definitely taken the advice that you should eat breakfast every single morning and if I skip it one day, I usually end up feeling very sluggish. I tend to be a creature of habit with certain things and my breakfast is one of them. On weekdays I alternate between plain oatmeal sweetened with honey, greek yogurt sweetened with honey, Cheerios, or waffles, always a piece of fruit on the side.
I wanted to mix up my routine a little bit while sticking to its roots, so I pulled out an old recipe that I snagged from US Weekly probably over a year ago.
I added a few variations to the recipe, as I tend to do . . . I doubled the recipe so I could feed myself, my mom, and my dad. Instead of strawberries, I cooked up an apple with some honey and cinnamon until it softened and then I added it to the mixture. I also used agave syrup instead of artifical sweeter (my dad claims he can always taste artifical sweetener in food and will not eat anything if it’s cooked with it, I am also trying to steer clear of artifical sweetners and start using natural sweetners, like honey and agave syrup). I wanted my bars to be more dry, like granola bars, so I added an extra cup of oats.
For a little more sweetness, sprinkle cinnamon throughout the mixture. Also, before you pop them in for the second and final bake, drizzle a little honey and sprinkle some cinnamon overtop. The bars can be bland if you don’t try to add a little something extra to sweeten them up!
All in all, I thought they turned out great and I am excited to eat them tomorrow morning as an accompaniment to my greek yogurt and sliced apple!
Strawberry-Oat Energy Bars With Yogurt
Serves 2
1 cup strawberries
1/2 cup rolled oats
1/2 cup egg whites
3 tsp Splenda
1 cup low-fat plain yogurt
Tags: Agave, Apple, Breakfast, Fruit, Oat, Recipe, US Weekly, Yogurt
