Lunch box friendly muesli bar
Mandy Sacher
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Ingredients
2 cup s (240g) rolled oats
2 tbs chia seeds
1/4 cup (40g) pumpkin seeds
1/2 cup (10g) puffed quinoa
1/3 cup (35g) oatmeal
Pinch sea salt
1/2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp vanilla extract or powder
1/4 cup (60ml) coconut oil, melted
1/ 2 cup (125ml) maple syrup
Method
1. Preheat oven to 160°C and line a 20x30cm baking dish with baking paper.
2. Place oats and seeds in a food processor and process until a fine consistency is achieved.
3. Add remaining ingredients and process until it forms a gooey mixture.
4. Place mixture into the prepared baking dish, press down firmly and evenly over the base of the dish.
5. Bake for approximately 20-25 min s or until golden brown. The mixture will harden as it cools.
6. Cut into slices and serve.
7. Serve immediately, store in an airtight container for up to 4 days, refrigerate for up to 14 days or freeze for up to 4months.
Tip
For a gluten-free version use 2 cups of gluten-free oats or quinoa flakes and swap the oatmeal for 1/3 cup of buckwheat flour, brown rice flour or quinoa flour.
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Mandy Sacher
Follow +Child nutrition expert and mother of two, Mandy Sacher, is a Paediatric Nutritionist and SOS Feeding Consultant. Her private practice focuses on prenatal and childhood nutrition, helping parents and mums-to-be feed their children healthy, nourishing foods right from the start. Mandy’s philosophy is simple: train children’s taste buds to enjoy nourishing, nutritionally beneficial foods early as possible to ensure optimal development and establishment of lifelong healthy eating behaviours. After the birth of her first child in 2010, Mandy became increasingly aware of the lack of nutritionally sound information available to first-time parents. She was alarmed at the amount of baby and toddler foods marketed as ‘healthy’ when the sugar, salt and preservative contents were overly high. Mandy realised the journey to junk food can begin with the squeezie yoghurts we are fed or the teething rusks given to us. Mandy’s career in children’s health spans more than a decade – in 2006, she, along with other paediatric experts, founded the MEND Programme, an independent, not-for-profit organisation established to research and prevent obesity in children. Mandy and her colleagues at MEND developed one of the world’s only proven weight-loss treatments for obese children, now based on ten years of research and clinical trials. For the past five years Mandy has consulted to daycares on implementing more nutritious whole food menu plans and also privately to parents with children of all ages. Wholesome Child’s nutritional workshops are held at preschools, mother’s groups, non-profit organisations and medical practices.