Smoke Break and Granola Bars

My sister just caught me outside having a 'smoke break.' First of all I am sorry if this offends you (my smoke break reference). I dont smoke but I just had this moment where it felt like I sort of did. I was sitting on Gloria eating a frozen granola bar. Gloria is my treadmill, and she and my freezer, who I have not named but if I did name I would call Blue because it holds hundreds of pounds of blueberries faithfully every year, is on my covered deck. I keep these granola bars in there and it is my fuel to get through my days. I went to Vancouver island a while back and my sister in law served these to me there. Well that changed my life! I got the recipe and basically keep an endless supply to snack on. The reason it felt like a smoke break was because I felt sort of like I had deeked out on everyone for a minute and was just having a quiet moment and she caught me mid bite. I can't explain WHY I think a smoke break would feel that way but it just did okay. Smoking looks soothing and quiet and that is what these granola bars do for me they make my nerves feel soothed and quieted. Anyway I thought I'd share the recipe here because they are that good. I am no baker and definitely no cook so this wont happen often. However, because these bars have kept me alive these last few months, I thought someone else may need their sustenance as well. ALSO they are incredible for boosting milk supply if you happen to be a nursing mother ~ which I currently am.

I call these ~ Life Sustaining, Milk Enhancing, Energy Producing.... Granola Bars!!!!!

Are you ready for this?
 Oh and I would LOVE to take pictures of my beautiful bake ware illuminated by natural light and chronicle step by step the magical process....but ya...not my reality. My counters are covered in stuff, I don't have natural light in this house and my bake ware is actually awesome but my camera is not.
So no pictures :(

Alright so first you need to turn on your oven to 350 degrees
Then you need these ingredients:

1 Cup of Sunflower seeds
1 Cup of Sesame Seeds
1 Cup of nuts (I actually dont put nuts in but you can)
1/2 Cup of Pumpkin seeds
1/2 Cup of Ground Flax
1 Cup of Rolled Oats
1 Cup of Hemp Hearts (or unsweetened cocoanut)
1 Cup of Chocolate Chips
1 Cup of raisins (or dried cranberries)
1 or 2 Tbsp of Chia seeds (or not ~ its up to you)

Mix all this in a beautiful bowl

In another equally beautiful bowl mix together:

1 cup of peanut butter
3/4 cup of coconut oil
3/4 cup of honey

Then add it all together and mix till combined
Pour this into a 9by13 cake pan and bake for fifteen minutes

When its done let it cool completely ~ cut it into big chunks and wrap individually then freeze.
There you have it :) You can change up this recipe in whatever ways you choose ~ like using almond butter or just peanut butter no coconut oil etc. I  just wrote it the way I make it. I buy my raisins, hemp hearts and coconut oil from Costco and the rest of the ingredients from Superstore.  Then I keep all the ingredients in a bag in the freezer other than the liquids so that its easy to find and dump in the bowl. I have no clue if that helps you out but I thought I'd add that little tid bit.

Hope you like them ~