No wheat or eggs, no added sugar, no dairy or nuts, and it tastes good. Really good. Someone brought these, made as drop cookies, into the office and they quickly disappeared. If you’re like me, you have a supply of black bananas in the freezer just waiting to be zapped, peeled, and used in a good recipe. I snitched a bite prior to picture taking and tried to hide it with a spatula, but that didn’t work.
Healthy bars (Lifesastitch version):
3 mashed ripe bananas
1/2 cup of canola oil
1 t vanilla
1 cup in total of any or all of the following: chopped dates, dried apricots, craisins, raisins, prunes, sunflower, pumpkin or flax seeds
2 cups of quick oats
1 t cinnamon
No ingredients have been omitted and it really works. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Mix the first three ingredients together, stir in the last three and let sit for 15 minutes. Press into an 8×8 ungreased pan (or drop by spoonful onto a cookie sheet). Bake for about half an hour or until the edges look like they are getting brown (cookies need less time). Cool and cut into bars. I store them in the fridge.
What a day off looks like at my house – catching up on Mt.Laundry, filling the house with the scent of good cooking, especially eight pounds of Carne Machaca for these and future enchiladas:
and some quality Li-Grace time while snuggled (me, not Gracee) under my Hemlock Ring. It never did stay perfectly flat, but it’s better than it was. It looks good folded and who cares how flat it is while in use?
Life's a Stitch 
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