Puffy Grain Chewy Bars

Serves 12

1 cup each: Puffed kamut, brown rice, millet from the health food store or use 3 cups regular puffed wheat from the grocery store. Or try Kashi cereal.
1/2 cup peanut butter, or almond butter
1/2 cup honey
1 teaspoon blackstrap molasses

Dump the cereal in a big bowl. Heat the honey, peanut butter and molasses together. Pour into cereal mixture, working quickly to get it mixed. Press very firmly into a 13 X 9 inch pan. Let sit for as long as you can wait (the longer, the harder) and then dig in.

NOTE: Variations of a theme: Try using brown rice crispies in place of the puffed rice, and toasting the millet and kamut on a cookie sheet (425 oven till toasted) for a crispy texture instead. For more variety, use this recipe as a base and add raisins, chopped dates or chopped nuts.

Watermelon Breakfast Lasagna

Preparation time: 10 minutes

4 cups corn flakes
2 cups minced watermelon
2 cups fresh blueberries or sliced strawberries (or 1 cup of each)
2 cups low-fat vanilla yogurt

Layer 1/2 of corn flakes evenly in bottom of 8x8 serving dish. Mix together watermelon, blueberries and/or strawberries, and yogurt; spoon 1/2 of fruit mixture evenly over corn flakes. Sprinkle half of remaining fruit mixture. Finish with layer of corn flakes.

Serves: 4
1 cup of fruit per serving.

Nutritional information per serving:
calories: 262, total fat: 2g.
saturated fat: 1 g
% calories from fat: 3%
protein 9 g
carbohydrates: 55g
chol: 6mg
fiber: 3g
sodium: 285mg