Fruity Cereal Bars Recipe

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With dried apple and cranberries, these crispy cereal bars are perfect for snacks or brown-bag lunches. “Store the extras in plastic containers,” Giovanna Kranenberg recommends from Cambridge, Minnesota, “that is, if you have any left!”

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Fruity Cereal Bars Recipe

Prep/Total Time: 30 min.

Yield: 20 Servings

20 10 30

Ingredients

3 tablespoons butter
1 package (10 ounces) large marshmallows
6 cups crisp rice cereal
1/2 cup chopped dried apple
1/2 cup dried cranberries

Directions

In a large saucepan, combine butter and marshmallows. Cook and stir over medium-low heat until melted. Remove from the heat; stir in the cereal, apples and cranberries.
Pat into a 13-in. x 9-in. pan coated with cooking spray; cool. Cut into squares. Yield: 20 servings.

Nutritional Facts 1 bar equals 105 calories, 2 g fat (1 g saturated fat), 5 mg cholesterol, 102 mg sodium, 22 g carbohydrate, trace fiber, 1 g protein. Diabetic Exchanges: 1-1/2 starch, 1/2 fat.

Originally published as Fruity Cereal Bars in Light & Tasty August/September 2006, p30