In high school, the principal lengthened our third period class by ten minutes to designate time for a daily bulletin, filmed and produced by the video class, informing us about various assemblies, sports games, and other extracurricular activities. With nearly two hours to go until lunch, many teachers allowed their students to pull out a small snack during that time as well.
My senior year, I ended up with AP Calculus as my third period class, so after power walking clear across campus from AP Economics, I plopped down in my desk chair and reached into my shoulder bag. I brought lunch from home every single day, which meant I always had a snack ready to go too.
Three of my good guy friends sat in desks surrounding me, and I usually laughed at the size of their snacks. Two of them swam competitively and had both early morning and afternoon practices nearly every day, so they could eat almost an entire meal as a snack and still feel ravenous by the time the lunch bell rang! A big sandwich, a couple of oranges, even burritos they somehow managed to keep warm in their backpacks…
But me? As a short and tiny 5’2” girl, I needed far less food as a snack. I often opted for a simple soft and chewy granola bar since my mom always stocked a couple of different kinds in our pantry.
Even though I was a huge chocoholic back then and loved the chocolate chip, peanut butter chocolate chunk, and s’mores flavors, I still enjoyed the cinnamon raisin ones just as much. They reminded me of chewy oatmeal raisin cookies!
But as an adult, I started looking at the labels of those store-bought granola bars and realized their ingredients weren’t always the healthiest… So I recreated a much more wholesome version of them with these Healthy Oatmeal Raisin Granola Bar Bites!
These are just as soft and chewy as the ones I ate in high school, and they also have just as much rich cinnamon and sweet plump raisins. Yet unlike the store-bought kind, these contain no artificial ingredients, butter, oil, refined flour or sugar and just 32 calories!
And yes… These healthy granola bar bites still taste like oatmeal raisin cookies!
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