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Banana & Oat Blender Bars

Banana & Oat Blender Bars

Recipe by LftOvrs
Serves Makes 10–12 bars
Difficulty Very Easy
Prep 10 min
Cook 20 min

Soft, chewy bars made from bananas and oats – ideal for little hands and perfect for batch baking.

These Banana & Oat Blender Bars are a brilliant way to turn spotty bananas into soft, satisfying snacks for children.

Everything is whizzed in a blender, pressed into a tin and baked – simple enough to make with kids at the weekend and freeze for the week ahead.

Method

  1. Preheat the oven to 180°C and line a small rectangular baking tin with parchment.
  2. Add the bananas, oil, nut or seed butter, cinnamon, vanilla and salt to a blender or food processor and blend until smooth.
  3. Add the oats and pulse a few times until they are coated but still have some texture.
  4. Stir through the dried fruit by hand, then press the mixture firmly into the lined tin.
  5. Bake for 18–20 minutes until just set and lightly golden at the edges.
  6. Cool completely in the tin, then lift out and slice into bars or squares.

LftOvrs app tip

In the LftOvrs app, log these as a batch of snack bars with the number of pieces, so you can see at a glance how many are left in the freezer.

Use tags like ‘kids snack’ and ‘oat bars’ to find them quickly when planning lunchboxes.

Why choose organic for this recipe?

The key organic ingredients here are the oats, bananas and any dried fruit you choose to add. Conventional oats are often treated with glyphosate as a pre-harvest drying spray, so organic oats avoid this and help reduce pesticide residues in a food children might eat frequently.

Bananas and dried fruit can also be treated with post-harvest fungicides and preservatives. Choosing organic versions cuts down on these inputs and means the natural sweetness in the bars comes from fruit rather than additives.

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