Low Sugar Granola Bars by Jill Harris

As a person that makes kidney stones, I follow a low sodium, low added sugar and low oxalate diet to avoid making them. I also try to minimize saturated fat and added trans fat. The recipes that I make and share will fit these criteria. Because many commercial products are high in added sugar and sodium and often contain foods that are high in oxalate, it's pretty hard to find snacks that fit my diet goals. So I've developed copycat recipes for snacks and other foods I like that had been off limits. I hope you'll find my tried and true recipes as enjoyable as I do.

I make mine with either salted or unsalted butter instead of coconut oil, and honey per her suggestion to hold them together better. While that does add more sugar, they hold together incredibly well.
I do not add any salt, but do add 1/2 tsp cinnamon.

Jill's recipes says it makes 12 bars. I find these to be very rich, satisfying, filling and delicious! I cut mine into 32 snack-sized portions. That keeps the calories and other numbers down.

With these changes, each of the 32 bars has:
128 calories, 3.1 mg oxalate, 13.2 mg calcium, 21.4 mg sodium, 4g added sugar.

These made a healthy kidney stone friendly snack.

[180g] ¾ cup Sunflower seed butter [I use no sugar added Sunbutter]

[160g] ½ cup zero sugar maple syrup [I use honey]

[28g] 2 tablespoon coconut oil [I used butter]

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

½ teaspoon sea salt [I leave this out]

[250g] 2.¼ cup of old fashioned oats

[115g] ½ cup of chopped dried apricots

[75g] ½ cup no salt sunflower seeds

[37.5g] ¼ cup chopped pumpkin seeds

[30g] ¼ cup chopped pecans

[I add ½ tsp cinnamon]

Note: Ingredients may have been altered from the original.

Directions at kidneystonediet.com

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