Jennifer DiDonato: Hello, welcome to Made Fit TV, I am your host Jennifer DiDonato and this is episode number 38, so thank you so much. We are in the kitchen today, we are doing a recipe. I get a lot of feedback in the recipes. I love to modify things. I find recipes and like you know what, I can make that little healthier, so that's what I try to do. But just in case you know Made Fit TV is everyone's source for health and fitness information and entertainment. So today we are going to be making cranberry almond granola bars, homemade guys and of course I am going to incorporate protein in it, come on, can't live without it.
So let's get started, alright. These are really good for new replacements and for breakfast time, so if you are having two a day, I mean that kills right there a couple of meals save you a few bucks. You can take it on a gulp, perfect for you. So let's get stared. We are going to first start with the eggs. We're using three egg whites. What I am going to do is I am going to mix - oh here, I am going to show you, showing you that first, we're making these. So stick around and I'll show you how to make them. We are going to start with the wet ingredients first. We are going to use three egg whites. You can crack these obviously into a separate bowl if you want, just if you are not too confident in your egg white separation techniques. Sometimes I screw up and I get a little bit of shower in there when I am making my egg whites in the morning. That's all right.
I accidentally bought regular applesauce. I usually like to get the no sugar added applesauce. But we are using a fourth a cup and a fourth of a cup will only have 9 grams of sugar in it, so it's not that bad at all. With that if you end up nothing able to find sugar free or no sugar added apple sauce, regular should be fine. So we are just using a fourth of a cup right there. Next thing we are going to do for a little bit of sweet is we are going to add a fourth cup of honey. That's going to give it the sweetness of it and honey is typically one of the better sugars if anything, you know, typically you don't want to have too much sugar in your diet or your everyday nutrition, but if you do, honey is a good one and to make up for this sweet. I am also going to incorporate some cooking Splenda.
So now we are going to add just a splash of skim milk, just to give it a little bit of wetness when we kind of mix all the dry ingredients together. This is just about an eighth of a cup. Then our last wet ingredient will be one tablespoon, I am sorry, excuse me, one teaspoon of just vanilla extract, you can get anywhere. You are going to add that in there. So now, we're just going to blend this all together first and then I am going to show you the dry ingredients. So this will just take, you know, you can mix it on medium. alright.
Now onto the dry ingredients. Alright, we're just going to do three-fourth cup of protein. The scoops that are coming in are fourth of the cup, so I am going to put three in here. Next thing we've got are the oats. Now you can either use the old fashion oats, you can use quick oats. I like to use just the old fashion 100% grain ones, because they are the full oats, the quick oats tend to be a little bit smaller chopped up. I like to use these because it's a little bit heartier and just kind of give those vanilla that chewiness, so we got that in there. Now let's add the Splenda. We're going to add a fourth of a cup of Splenda, and of course this is sticky gallop, so add a fourth a cup of Splenda right in there, mix that in.
Now what I did is I bought some sliced almonds. You can get them anywhere of the grocery store. But what I did is I just use half a cup of the almonds, placed them out on a cutting board and just want to cut them up a little bit because you know unless you want the bigger pieces in the vanilla, but I would but with this one kind of want just disperse throughout the recipe. Now the next thing we are going to do is we are going to add the cranberries. Cranberries are so, so good because that is what adds to the chewiness of it. We are going to do a half a cup of cranberries, and these you can find anywhere. Dry cranberries are just very, very healthy for you. So when you're picking your dried fruits, you can use any dry fruits if you like. You can use maybe raisins, where raisins are a little bit higher in sugar but cranberries are heart healthy, got great antioxidants in it, alright, mix them it in.
Now time for the wet ingredients. Just kind of pour that in right there. Kind of get it all around the rim, pour it in, okay. Now this part takes a little bit over grease so what we are going to do is just take a couple of minutes, just to mix it in. As you can see, it's mixing together, nice smell, it smells so good. Here we got a little bit of TV magic going on over here. What happen to all the ingredients, I just want to clear it out because it was getting a little cluttered. But right now alright, it took me about 2-3 minutes, just to kind of mix this, get it a good mix.
So now we have that ready, I want you to take a cookie sheet. It can be any size because it doesn't necessarily have to cover the entire cookie sheet as you'll see when I pour it in here on my mould. But I just want to take this - have you take some pan, no Crisco, no butter, just slightly spray it, you have to spray it earlier. Then you are going to need some wax paper because what we are going to do is we are going to pile it on here right now and the pan just helps it from sticking, we don't want them sticking on there.
So I am just going to kind of globe it on right in the center. It smells so good. If you are making this with me right now or if you are going to be making this, you are going to be really tempted to just dive into this. I am not even joking, just eating it raw because but I won't actually do that, this go kind of raw eggs in it. So I want you to evenly press it. So it press it from the center and kind of move on out, because you are going to see that some areas might chunk up a little bit more than others. What we want to do is what we are going for is to get equal distribution.
Take the wax paper, place it right on there and just kind of work it in, spread out a little bit more. This is going to help keep it even. So you're going to spread it out but what I want to do though is I want to make sure that I am making this a nice kind of rectangle. So after I evenly spread it out, I am going to take my spatula and just kind of clean up the edges. So just go ahead and peel that off, just take a moment to clean up the edges, just standby, okay good, perfect. So now we have a nice square -- oh it's heavy, it's heavy, it can be a workout, alright, so good. So now what we're going to do is I am going to place this into the oven. You're going to preheat to 350, it just take about ten minutes to preheat. Secure right in the top rack. And depending on your oven, we are going to set it for anywhere between 15-20 minutes, so I am going to set up for 15 minutes. This is typically how long it will take, but what you want to look for is make sure that they get golden brown at the top, golden brown, then you know okay they are done.
So we are just going to hold off for 15 minutes, check back with me then, and we'll see if we got to keep them in for longer. Alright guys, they just came out of the oven a couple of minutes ago, like a minute ago, 15 minutes is all it took. Look how nice and golden brown they are. So what I am doing is just cutting them up. Cut them into about 18 bars give or take depending on how much you spread out the mix onto the cookie sheet. But I mean take a look at this, I mean the consistency is just something great that you can have, you know, bring in the car with you, I mean a take a look at that, bring it in the car, see they are not crunchy but they are chewy. But just make sure that when after you let these cool, let them cool for about a half hour, put them in air tight Ziploc bags and stick them in the fridge because I don't want to grown any mould on you in the cabinet but they should at least last to a good week. You can have like two a day for good meal snack, 137 calories per bar, just three grams of fat, 21 carbs, ten and half sugars and seven and a half grams of proteins, so this is a good well rounded either breakfast or snack new replacement, you can have on the gulp.
So guys I really, really appreciated and I am glad that you were able to check it out. Go on madefittv.com, I have all the nutrition facts and all of the recipe information on my website. You can even subscribe to all these videos on madefittv.com, just put in your email address. Email me at Ask Jenny. Email me with any questions or comments. I just want to thank you guys for it because I know that you are all looking for an easier way to incorporate health and fitness and healthy nutrition in your life and I've got it, I am the place, come on. So thanks so much. Find me on Twitter at jenny didonato, Facebook; Jennifer didonato. we are in iTunes, subscribe made fit TV is the key word there and also on Viddler and Youtube as well. So thanks so much guys, remember fit bodies don't just happen they are made and we're going to make them so meanwhile I am enjoying my vanilla bars.
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