Skip to main content

Cran-Apple Granola (Vegan & Gluten-Free)

First off, the winner of the SpaFinder giftcard is Sunflower!  Please email me at erica@healthcounsellingtoronto.com so I can send you the prize!!
 
Now on to our featured blog post...
 
 
 


I am on the girls' daycare board.  Like most daycares around here, we have to rely more and more on donations.  Each Wednesday in May, we've been putting out a table in the building and selling water bottles with the daycare logo, a cookbook with the daycare cook's recipes, and advertising our new affiliation with Donate Naturally.

Last week it was my turn to (wo)man the table, so I decided to add to the healthy living theme by making some homemade granola to sell along side the other items.  It sold out licked-split!

Cran-Apple Granola

1 kg large flake oats (gluten-free, if necessary)
170g bag puffed brown rice
2 cups dried apples, chopped
1 cup dried cranberries
1 cup sunflower seeds
1 cup coconut oil, melted
1/2 cup apple sauce
1/2 cup agave syrup (or maple syrup or honey)
1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
1/2 tsp salt

Place oats and puffed rice in a large bowl.  In another bowl, whisk together oil, apple sauce, syrup, cinnamon and salt.  Pour over dry ingredients and mix until evenly coated.  Spread 1/3 of mixture on a large baking sheet.  Bake at 350F for about 18 minutes until golden, stirring 2-3 times while baking.  Let cool and then remove from pan.  Repeat with next 2 batches.  Stir in apples, cranberries and sunflower seeds.  Store in an airtight container for up to 2 months.  Makes 16 cups.

This recipe has been submitted to Vegetarian Mamma's Gluten-Free Friday.
Labels:

Comments

  1. cindyJune 13, 2013 at 8:19 AM

    Oh, I think I have all these ingredients on hand! YUM Thanks for linking up at our Gluten Free Fridays party! I have tweeted and pinned your entry to our Gluten Free Fridays board on Pinterest! :)

    Cindy from vegetarianmamma.com

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Japanese 7-Spice Kelp Noodles

I love trying new spices and seasonings, so I am very excited that the President's Choice Black Label line now has a bunch of new spice blends available.  My most recent find: Shichimi Togarashi, or Japanese 7-Spice blend. It's a combination of crushed red chili flakes, sea salt, Szechiuan peppercorns, black and white sesame seeds, poppy seeds, orange zest, wasabi powder and nori seaweed flakes. I make Japanese-inspired dishes all the time, but resort to the same old flavours most of the time: miso, soy, sesame, ginger and garlic.  I was so excited to be able to liven things up a bit. This dish is easy and tasty, although be warned that this seasoning packs punch.  I used 1 tsp, which ended up being too spicy for me, and I have a high tolerance for heat!  I recommend 1/4-1/2 tsp, or, if you don't like heat at all, make your own at home and omit the red chili flakes.  You'll get all the flavour without the heat. I served these noodles with a mix of seafood (
5 comments
Read more

Book Review: The A to Z of Children's Health

Hey there, welcome to Monday!  We had a delightful, relatively quiet weekend.  How was yours?  Hopefully no one in your home was sick...there is a lot of nasty stuff going around these days. If you're a parent, than you have probably spent far more time that you would like to desperately searching Google and/or parenting books trying to figure out if your child's rash, cough or fever warrants a trip to the doctor or if there is something that can be done to treat it.  It's hard not to worry that it could be something more ominous that just an every day infection and while you'd make yourself (and everyone around you) nuts if you panicked every time your kid has the sniffles, as a parent, you naturally want to do everything in your power to prevent your child from harm. Recently I was sent The A to Z of Children's Health , written by doctors Jeremy Friedman, Natasha Saunders, and Norman Saunders, of Toronto's very own Hospital for Sick Children .  One of th
164 comments
Read more

How to Look Like a Celebrity

Okay, I know you're going to be interested in this post! I am sure virtually every woman in North America has wondered how Hollywood celebrities achieve such 'perfect' bodies.  Well, at CAN FIT PRO last week, one of Hollywood's top fitness trainers, Eric the Trainer , was there to tell us fitness professionals the secrets! Eric the Trainer, gave several presentations, and I caught the one on Celebrity Secrets, and it was most interesting!!!  I also found some of what he said rather disturbing. First off, he was very upfront about the fact that celebrities come to him for improve their appearance.  Not to improve their health or athletic performance.  To look their best.  He admitted that his approach then, is entirely dedicated to that end. Male and female celebrities are trained in completely different ways because Hollywood wants women to be lithe and thin and in his words, "look like they dropped out of heaven looking this way without every having ste
1 comment
Read more