Chewy Granola Bars Recipe | Myrecipes - PCOS-Friendly Recipe
Nutrition per Serving
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup margarine, softened
- 1 cup brown sugar, packed
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 2 tablespoons honey
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 egg
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup quick-cooking oats, uncooked
- 1 1/4 cups puffed rice cereal
- 1 cup chopped pecans
- 1 cup raisins
- 1 cup chocolate chips
Instructions
- Cream margarine, sugars, honey, vanilla and egg, mixing well. Combine all dry ingredients and add to creamed mixture. Press into a greased 13"x9"x2" baking pan and bake at 350 degrees for 22 to 28 minutes. Let cool; cut into bars. You can substitute peanut butter chips or butterscotch chips for the chocolate if you like.
PCOS-Friendly Foods in This Recipe
This recipe contains the following foods that may benefit PCOS management: Cinnamon, Honey.
Cinnamon is one of the best ingredients that someone with insulin sensitivity can eat. Half a teaspoon of cinnamon per day has been shown to be very effective at normalizing blood sugar levels. Cinnamon contains hydroxychalcone, which is thought to enhance the effects of insulin. It has also been suggested that Cinnamon prevents post-meal blood sugar spikes by slowing the gastric emptying rate - meaning that food digests slowly. (Reference: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11506060). Honey, of...
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