If you are anything like me, you are starting to go a little stir crazy stuck at home. When I get stressed out or need something to calm me or keep the kids busy, I usually turn to my kitchen. This week I made some pretty easy homemade granola bars and thought I would share the recipe. Before you ask- yes, they have sugar in them. The honey and brown sugar help them stick together plus....they taste good. I would much rather have a homemade bar with sugar and only a few ingredients I control in them than something with all sorts of unnecessary stuff mixed in just to help it last on the shelf a little longer. I use a pretty basic recipe but you can change it up just by swapping out the nuts a
If you had told any of us at the beginning of the new year that we would find ourselves in this predicament by spring, who would have believed it. But here we are, limiting our trips out of the house to the grocery store and drug store, missing our friends and social connections, navigating how to accomplish our jobs from home and helping our kids learn through the computer. All of those things seem a bit overwhelming, let alone trying to figure out a way to stay motivated to workout or eat healthy as we walk past the pantry in our sweatpants 10000 times a day..... It's just weird. But it doesn't have to stay weird. Once we get past the first phases of resistance and annoyance at losing life