Our (read: “my” because I’m the snacker of the family) favorite healthy snacks of late are the Whole Wheat Cinnamon Graham Squares from Tammy’s Recipes.
Sweetened with honey and brown sugar and packed with whole wheat flour, these squares are healthy AND filling (unlike those frosted sugar cookies).You’ll need:
6 c. whole wheat flour
1 1/2 c. rolled oats
1 c. brown sugar
2 tsp salt
2 tsp baking soda
3 tbs ground cinnamon
3/4 c. honey
1 1/2 c. oil (FYI, of all the “healthy” oils, canola is the cheapest)
1 c cold water
- Whisk together the dry ingredients (you’ll need a large bowl for this!) Make a well in the center of the bowl.
- Combine honey, oil, and water in a separate bowl. Mix well, then add to dry ingredients and stir until mixture forms a thick, crumbly/stiff dough.
- Grease two 10×15″ jelly roll pans, put half the dough on each pan, then go grab the nearest toddler.
- After demonstrating the proper “mashing” technique, let the toddler go wild banging, mushing, and squeezing the dough until it is pressed flat into each pan.
- Using a butter knife, cut each pan into 24 pieces. (Please cut the dough not the pan.)
- Bake at 400 degrees for 13-18 minutes, or until lightly browned, switching racks half-way through baking (which I always forget to do).
- Cool pans on wire racks, re-slice, and store in an air-tight container. I like to put half in the freezer so that they stay fresh while the first half disappears.
Healthy, relatively cheap, filling, sweet, easy, and fun for toddlers. Pretty much the perfect snack. Though I’ve been tempted to find a way to add chocolate to them…
But then it would have to switch categories. Which brings me to next week, when we balance out all this healthiness with Snacks: The Unhealthy. The salty, the sweet, the fattening. Bring it on.
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I’m so excited about Recipe Swap. I love finding new recipes.
I am really excited to be apart of this….My snack is very simple compared to your wheat and honey treats….but hey…. I like to snack I think more unhealthy then I should….looking forward to all the wonderful ideas that everyone has
So glad you posted the whole wheat cinnamon graham square recipe…I have been meaning to try that one for a long time!
I did mine! Sorry mine isn’t a recipe. But it’s an old reliable for me to get my children to eat something healthy. I will have to try your graham squares!
I have followed your blog for a while now and am excited to read the recipe swaps. Great idea! Thanks for starting it :o)
Ok, I am leaving a comment. But only because Mr. Linky said I HAVE TO.
This is a great idea! I hope I did it right. I liked the the recipe on my site. The recipe isn’t new (as in just posted). Is that cheating? I’ll be ready for next Thursday… can’t wait!
Oops. Meant to say *linked the recipe…but I did LIKE it too!
I’m late! 🙁 But better late than never?
I might have missed it, but do you have the recipe swaps schedule? That way I can be ready on swap day, or at least have an idea of which recipe I am gonna blog about. Thanks!
BTW great stuff on healthy snacks! I love to get new and fresh snack ideas!
Tried this recipe yesterday, it was a big hit with the fam. Thanks so much!!!
This is right here, in the present, not the future.
I’m so worried about the direction our children are headed in nowadays. Watching Jamie Olivers food revolution tv show scared the thingies out of me. I suggest we all start cooking some healthy recipe like these at home if we’re going to fix this horrible situation. The ones on that site seem pretty easy, I tried last night and it’s the first time my family has eaten healthy in so long, I just feel great.
Thank you so much for wonderful ideas. finding things to do with children is so hard sometimes, especially during the winter break when they are home ALL THE TIME! Their most recent favourite is to make random sandwich crafts out of bread and salad bits, not sure how to explain it I found at this recipes for kids site here, the’res a little picture with each one which is great. Thought your readers might like to try that too. Well, I must be back to rea life now, either my kids are calling or I’m imagining things, which is also quite possible.
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