Muesli Bars
When that mid morning or afternoon hunger sets in, make sure you’re prepared with the right emergency foods to help keep you on the right track. Fresh fruit, trail mix or yoghurt make a terrific snack and so do these delicious home-made muesli bars that will take the edge off any hunger and are much healthier than the traditional store bought versions. These bars take around 5 minutes to mix up from your favourite bircher muesli combo then all you need to do is bake them. Like most muesli bars, I’ve made mine with rolled oats. The soluble fiber can help lower blood cholesterol and because they are low GI, they can provide lasting energy. If you’re on a gluten free or paleo diet just substitute the oats for nuts, seeds and sun-dried fruit. My muesli bars provide a good source of protein to help keep you fuller for longer and I’ve used a little olive oil which is kind to the arteries and anti-inflammatory to the body.
3 cups (350g) natural bircher muesli
½ cup (50g) LSA – (ground linseed + almonds + sunflower seed)
3 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 cup (60 ml) olive oil
1/4 cup (60 ml) honey
Preheat oven to 160 C. fan forced. Combine muesli, LSA, eggs, vanilla, cinnamon, olive oil and honey in one large bowl until mixed through.
Spoon into a baking tin lined with baking paper.
Bake for 25 – 30 minutes until golden.
Cool then cut into 16 pieces.
Nutrition Per slice:
Protein: 4.5 g
Total fat: 8.3 g
Saturated: 1.2 g
Fiber: 2.6 g
Carbs: 16.4 g
Kilojoules: 583
Calories: 157
NOTES:
For gluten free or paleo diets substitute bircher muesli with 3 cups combined (almond meal, seeds, walnuts + sun-dried dried fruit).
LSA is a mixture of ground linseed sunflower seed and almonds you can buy at your local health food store or supermarket. You can also replace this with 100% ground almonds or linseeds (flaxseeds).
For those with egg allergies, replace with mashed banana in the recipe.
These bars will keep in an airtight container for up to 5 days. Store in the fridge.
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Looks delicious!, just wondering f you recommend any vanilla extract brands? and is it just pure 100% vanilla?
thanks
Just use a good vanilla extract or vanilla bean paste which you can get from your supermarket. That will be great.
Looks so easy and yummy. What could you substitute for egg?
Thanks for your wonderful recipe posts, I love receiving them.
These sound great; how long would they keep for? would you put them in an airtight container and refrigerate?
Thanks
They keep for about 5 days. Store in the fridge in an airtight container.
Hi,
Is there any substitute for the eggs? My son is egg intolerant. Thanks.
Hi Rebecca and Diana ! I haven’t tested them without eggs, but am very sure they will be great using smashed banana to replace them. Bananas are a great replacement for eggs in baking recipes and the linseeds in the LSA will help them bind too. Let me know how you go.
Hi, this looks delicious, just wondering if it would be suitable to freeze after baking? Thanks
Yes you can freeze. T:)
Thanks Teresa,
Just in time for back to school lunches! Do you have any more healthy, preferably nut free (school policy) recipes, for lunch boxes?
Thanks
Love your recipes so yummy. Pardon my ignorance but what is LSA?
These bars look really good! I’ve been searching for a healthy recipe to make instead of the flapjacks I normally make with butter and sugar. When you say 50g LSA, is that a mixture of linseed, seeds and almonds? Can I substitute the olive oil for another kind of oil?
Thanks
Hi Paloma, take a read of my notes at the bottom of the recipe reguarding LSA. you can use another oil if you prefer. Another good one to use is almond oil or macadamia nut oil
What is LSA
Have a read at my notes Jodie at the bottom of the recipe. Basically LSA is a mixture of ground linseed, sunflower seed and almonds.
I made this yesterday and my 2 girls love them. They were so quick to make and extremely yummy. Thanks Teresa
My 11 year old son made these all by himself. Very quick, easy and tasty. Thanks.
Hi, have only just discovered The
Healthy Chef website and I think it is
great! All the recipes have cooked so far have
been easy and turned out delicious.
I love how you list fat and protein content etc.
Only think I would love you to consider
in the future is to list your sugar content too perhaps ?
Look forward to future recipes and tips !
Teresa c an you buy ready made bircher muesli cheers meg.
Hi Teresa,
Just wondering if I could replace the sun-dried dried fruit with something or leave it out altogether for the gluten free option for the Bircher that you mentioned at the bottom of your recipe?
Thanks in advance!
Yummy, made this again!!
Just finished making this slice. So simple to make and tasted great. I love coconut so will add some next time for a lil twist on your recipe Teresa.
Hi I love your recipes and although my kids love to snack on raw nuts and almond meal and I often include them in slice and biscuits they are not able to take them to school because most schools are nut free due to allergies. Is there a nice healthy treat you can suggest for the school lunch box that doesn’t include nuts?
Hi Kerry – you can make the muesli bars nut free just by using a bircher muesli mix that is nut free and substituting any other nut meals for ground or whole seeds like flaxseed or sunflower seed. My recipe for banana and oatmeal cookies on this sit is perfect for kids to take to school. T:)x
I just made these using almond meal, cranberries and apple with some Mesquite…..so so SO delicious!!! Not too sure if I am going to share them with my girls now…..hmmmmm…Thanks Teresa
Hi Teresa,
These were very fun to make. I got to make my own muesli and LSA (for the very first time) to use, and they taste excellent! Thanks so much for sharing this recipe.
Holly
Hi Teresa
Just wondering if you can buy a ready-made bircher muesli mix, and what one? If not, could I use your bircher muesli recipe including the yoghurt?
Thanks,
Leeseey
This is my link to the bircher muesli you should use: http://www.teresacutter.com/2010/12/and-another-post-goes-here/
Hi Teresa
I just made these museli bars and they are great as a quick smack at work instead of reaching for a chocolate bar! I saw a receipe for museli a while ago but can’t seem to see it on your website anymore?? It’s not the bircher museli it seemed more like a toasted crunchy museli.
Keep the receipes coming!
Bianca
Hi Teresa,
Just wondering if you have used spelt flakes instead of rolled oats in baking? I use them in my own (alkaline) muesli mix and sometimes make a sort of porridge with them, but have noticed that they don’t get as “gluggy” like oats do in porridge. I’m guessing this is due to less gluten. So was wondering how they work in baking recipes and thought I’d ask?
Just ‘stumbled’ across your website looking for alkaline snacks and boy am I pleased I did! Have already bookmarked loads of the recipes to try and will be recommending to friends.
Thanks!
Silke
Love this recipe. Now I moved to NZ though I can’t find the ground LSA in the supermarket. And on a whim I bought liquid LSA.
It’s cooking now but I just noticed on the bottle it says “Not suitable for heating” . Unsure as to why, unless it’s preventing using it as a cooking oil substitute,
Any ideas?
Use almond meal or ground hazelnut Paul not liquid.
Great Recipe! I found all of the products i needed to make these muesli bars (including LSA) at Oriental and Continental Foods Artarmon! Great Recipe!
Teresa, just started using Quinoa – both normal and puffed – as well as puffed Kamut – could i use these in conjunction with the muesli – and also could i use coconut oil or agave or even coconut nectar in this – Thanks for inspiring us to be more conscious of what we eat – got my friends onto your site.
Natural bircher muesli?? Do you put the overnight soaked muesli in or is it the just a dry muesli mix you mean here? Im not from AUS obviously
Hey Pia – you can just mix and use it straight away. Totally up to you and it will work both ways….let me know how you go
x
hi teresa just wondering which bicher museli to use?
This turned out well and is just sweet enough.
Don’t get too concerned with the bircher muesli anyone who is thinking of making it, but not sure what to use.
I just used 1 cup of natural muesli, 1 cup mixed porridge oats and rolled oats and lastly 1 cup of rice bubbles to make up the three cups. Ok so the rice bubbles might be the odd one out, but I had some in my pantry and wanted to use them up. It still worked out really well.
Hi Teresa, can I substitute the olive oil for coconut oil
just made these – don’t be too fussed if you don’t have exact ingredients – i used half muesli and half oats – 1 egg and 2 old bananas mashed – almond meal instead of LSA – added sunflower pumpkin flaxseeds and Goji berries – the mixture was quite wet – but it held up in cooking – and best of all IT SMELT DEVINE AND TASTED EVEN BETTER – give it a go – the bananas gave at a lovely flavour-
Hi. How much banana would you use to replace the eggs please?
Hi Teresa. Can I replace any of the ingredients with pea protein to try and boost the protein content? If so what would you suggest. Love your protein balls, but would like something baked with protein powder added.
I’ve made these a few times and they are DELICIOUS!! My last batch a couple of days ago, I made them nut free (for school treats) and left out the honey & oil but added pureed dates. They were a huge hit with my family….I need to bake another batch