Easy Healthy Granola Recipe (and Granola Bar Recipe) (2024)

ByChristinaMay 6, 2015August 23, 2023

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Granola is a staple in my house and I make it often. Healthy granola is a great snack to have around and this recipe is super cinchy! And for more meals you can make with inexpensive pantry staples, check these out.

I’ve been making granolafor years, but a few years ago, I got a recipe I really loved from my friend Fairlight. She’s married to a friend from high school and I met her on Facebook. She’s a homeschooling, stay at home mom who is amazing!

A week or so ago someone called me a granola-eating tree hugger, and I was so touched. I told them that was the nicest thing I had been called in a while.

So what do I and my Little Sprouts do with granola? We use it in our yogurt parfaits, click here to read about how we make them. We eat it for cereal (Mr. Kent especially loves that), top fruit crisps with it, make it into granola bars, and just eat a handful for a snack.

Healthy granola

I have some issues with milk, so I use rice milk as a substitute. I make sure my diet has a lot of calcium from dark leafy greens and seeds. Nuts are a great source of calcium too, but I am also allergic to nuts, so I stick with seeds.

Sesame seeds are very high in calcium and I add them to our food whenever appropriate. They also contain magnesium which you need to absorb calcium. And a host of other nutrients. They are great for you. Granola is a great place for them! Click here to see other high calcium foods you can supplement your diet with if you can’t consume milk.

I am also allergic to cinnamon. It’s hard to find granola without cinnamon, so that’s just one more reason I enjoy making my own.

Granola is a filling, high-protein snack that can also be taken on the go. Mr. Kent keeps granola at work for when the hungries hit. Each recipe makes a lot of granola and it’s fairly simple to make.

You can either bake it in the oven at 225, stirring every 15 minutes for a couple of hours or if you are going to be home all day, you can even make it in the crockpot. It takes about 7 hours to dry it out, but you use the same recipe listed below for the oven, you just dump all the ingredients in the crockpot and put the lid ONLY HALF WAY on to let the steam escape. Stir it thoroughly every 30 minutes, and voila, granola.

Check out the recipe, and make sure to use old-fashioned rolled oats in the recipe.

Healthy granola recipe

A great tip for recipes that you use over and over again like granola is to print them out and place them in page protectors and tape to the inside of your cabinets where your baking ingredients are.

This saves a ton of time getting the recipe out each time, it’s always right there. I have my granola recipe posted there along with my wheat bread recipe and other staples in our household.

Granola bar recipe

For some yummy granola bars packed with energy, check out this post about how to make nut free granola bars.

You can make this granola organic by buying organic oats and other ingredients to make it. It’s much less expensive than store-bought organic granola and again, you can control the ingredients that go in it.

And you can even make it into granola cups with fruit and yogurt like these too.

What do you love to make for your family? Here are some more Cheap Breakfast Ideas for Daycare.