Go Lean Cereal Bars

about 4 or 5 cups Go Lean cereal
1 cup chopped TJ's dried sweetened cranberries (I like the orange flavored, but other people think the flavor's too strong)
1/2 cup cup raisins
1/2 cup chopped TJ dried cherries
1 cup TJ sliced roasted almonds
1 1/2 cup rolled oats
3/4 cup brown rice syrup (or honey)
1/4 cup brown sugar
1 cup peanut butter.
optional: 1/4 - 1/2 cup chocolate chips (or more!)

Heat brown rice syrup and brown sugar in a big pot stirring until boiling, and the sugar has dissolved. Add peanut butter. Turn off heat.

Add the rest of the ingredients. Add oatmeal and dried fruit first, then the Go-lean, saving the chips for very last, after everything's cooled some (or you'll have a big mess with melted chips--which is okay, of course.)

if you don't want big chunks of dried fruit etc, food process them a little first. I also throw the oatmeal into the food processor because kids don't like to see oats.

You'll have to work in the last of the go-lean cereal with your hands. You'll definitely have to use your hands to press it into the pan. I use a 9x13 pan, but you can make the batch thinner on a larger jelly roll pan.

Use more or less go-lean cereal, depending on how gooey you like the bars.


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