Ingredients

i use stick of earth balance in place of butter (they sell packets of four at grocers)

use 2.5 cup oats instead of 2.

subbing hulled hemp seed for sunflower seeds (using 1 cup instead of 1/2)

1 cup of whatever nuts I have (usually walnuts or pecans) instead of almonds

1 cup of wheatgerm

1/2 cup of sugar

1/2 cup honey

8 oz of fruit or more - i sort of eye ball this one and use goji berries and cranberries in the one you ate

1 tablespoon of molasses

2 tablespoons of hemp seed oil at the very end (it keeps them together I think.. and I have it so i may as well use)

Preparation

I also don’t butter the pan - I line it in foil… that is a large glass pan…

then preheat oven to 350 and toss in the oats and berries and nuts(optional - i put them in at end due to having already soaked and dehydrating them)… I usually just set all those dry ingredients on pan with a silpad then toss in oven…. I don’t time it… just take out after done working on setting up the sugars and butters..

put sugars butters molasses honey salt vanilla (banana optional - crushed up good in the pan) at low heat in a large skillet. wait til it starts to all mix together…. then take oats out (10 min approx) and mix into the pan… then after it is all mixed in put in the hemp oil… and then stir around and pour into your glass dish…

when i take the oat mixture out of oven I mix with faty/sugar in pan and move into my glass baking dish to harden..I usually line bottom of pan with first half of mixture and toss in a handful of chocolate (or 1/2 to 1 cup) and cacao sprinkles… then i put the second half on top and add another layer of tin foil. I push down on the tin foil with a press I have.

I let it harden overnight or for a couple hours…. then it’s hard enough to cut into squares. After it’s cut in squares I coat them in crushed oats to make them less sticky from the chocolate. I’ve coated them in coconut and oats before, but a lot of people don’t like coconut and it is a powerful thing so i stopped.

~Josh

One other funny thing I do - I don’t use just raw nuts… I soak them overnight in salt water then dehydrate at about 200 degrees or on top of our wood stove for 8 hours. It makes them taste less bitter and there are some other reasons I don’t really know if I believe but I like the taste better.