yummy honey date bars

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Honey Date Bars

These are very good. Easy to make.

3 cups puffed rice

1/2 chopped dates (Amport brand is gf/cf, the chopped

variety is coated with beet sugar only.)

1/3 firmly packed brown sugar

1/4 cup margarine

1/4 cup honey

Grease 8 inch square baking pan. In large bowl,

combine cereal and dates; set aside. In medium

saucepan, combine sugar, margarine and honey. Bring

mixture to a boil over medium heat, stirring

occasionally until smooth. Pour over cereal mixture;

mix until well coated. Press firmly into prepared

pan. Chill; cut into bars. Store in Refridgerator.

What I did was to add the dates to the liquid mixture

and stir a few minutes before adding the cereal to the

pan. Combine and stir well and then pat into pan like

rice crispy treats. Making them this way allows the

dates to sort of melt together a little bit.

These are really good and easy. When I used to make

date bars pre-diet days, with oatmeal, they were great

to get the bowels moving (sorry). Not sure if these

will do the same thing without the oats, guess we'll

see tomorrow! I thought they would be great

breakfast bars for some of our kids with tendancies

for blockages.

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