Ask each member of my family about their favorite cereal, and you’ll get a different answer every time. Fortunately, we go through cereal so quickly that it’s no problem to have several boxes open at once. For me fiber is important, so I usually grab the box of Kellogg’s Frosted Mini Wheats. The girls are rather fond of Kellogg’s Apple Jacks, and the boys in my family tend to gravitate toward the box of Kellogg’s Raisin Bran.
But what do you do when you can’t decide which cereal you’re in the mood for? You go freestyle, of course! I was so excited to see Kellogg’s Great Starts Tip #11 Cereal Freestyle, one of 30 great tips from the top athletes of Team Kellogg’s™ and Team USA dietitians. Be sure to check out all 30 great starts tips from Team Kellogg’s!
What exactly is Cereal Freestyle?
Do you ever feel like you can’t decide between two types of cereal, or if you’re feeling very indecisive 3 or more? Maybe you’re in the mood for some crunch flakes, but wouldn’t mind a hint of the sweet apple taste of Apple Jacks. Sometimes you just have to mix things up a bit! My personal cereal freestyle looks something like this – Raisin Bran, Frosted Mini Wheats, and Apple Jacks.
I decided to take the idea of cereal freestyle one step further. With my family’s busy schedule, sometimes we need a breakfast or snack that we can take on the go. Thus came the idea of Freestyle Cereal Bars. This is a cereal bar recipe that can be made with whatever cereal you’re in the mood for. My family went nuts for Raisin Bran Cereal Bars.
The combination of crunchy and chewy is great!
Freestyle Cereal Bars Recipe
ingredients:
4 cups Kellogg’s Raisin Bran or your favorite Kellogg’s Cereal
1/2 cup artificial sweetener or sugar
3/4 cup quick-cooking rolled oats
1/2 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 cup chopped dried apricots
2 eggs
1/3 cup honey
1/2 cup chunky peanut butter
1/4 cup vegetable oil
directions:
Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Line a 8×8 inch baking pan with foil. Coat with nonstick cooking spray and set aside. In a large bowl combine cereal, oats, flour and dried fruit. Set aside.
In a small bowl beat eggs, honey, peanut butter, and oil until well combined. Pour into cereal mixture. Stir until well combined. Transfer to the prepared baking dish, and press mixture firmly into pan. Bake 25 to 30 minutes or until edges are brown. Cool completely in pan. Lift out of pan and cut into bars.
It’s easy to give everyone a great start cereal freestlye!
What’s your favorite cereal freestyle combination?
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Freestyle Cereal Bars Recipe
Ingredients
- 4 cups Kellogg's Raisin Bran or your favorite Kellogg's Cereal
- 1/2 cup artificial sweetener or sugar
- 3/4 cup quick-cooking rolled oats
- 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup chopped dried apricots
- 2 eggs
- 1/3 cup honey
- 1/2 cup chunky peanut butter
- 1/4 cup vegetable oil
Instructions
Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Line a 8x8 inch baking pan with foil. Coat with nonstick cooking spray and set aside. In a large bowl combine cereal, oats, flour and dried fruit. Set aside.
In a small bowl beat eggs, honey, peanut butter, and oil until well combined. Pour into cereal mixture. Stir until well combined. Transfer to the prepared baking dish, and press mixture firmly into pan. Bake 25 to 30 minutes or until edges are brown. Cool completely in pan. Lift out of pan and cut into bars.
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These look like some tasty bars! I know I would like them because they have all my favorite staples.
Love that you did this with Truvia. Much healthier than sugar or corn syrup!
those look delish!! i like the way you do healthier ingredients
Great recipe….so much fresher and cheaper than buying bars! Pinned
These bars sound really good! I think that I should make them as a nice surprise for my family.
I have a hard time deciding sometimes. Great recipe for a good choice alternative!
What a great idea! I will have to try these!
These bars sound delish! Perfect for a preschool class.
You just got me in the mood for cereal, I have Frosted Flakes and Special K. I have never tried mixing them together, but I am up for doing it. I don’t think Frosted Flakes and Special K are going to mix well but I won’t know unless I try right?
I love the cereal bars recipe. I do not think I have ever mixed any cereals but I am betting my kids have.
What a fun idea! We often can’t choose between flavors so we mix up Kellogg’s cereals too! Usually it’s something like some Kellogg’s Krave in a Special K or something like that. lol.
Oh my! Those look soooo good. It’s after lunch here and I could really go for one of those as an afternoon snack! 🙂
My kids mix cereals in their bowl… they would love these bars!
Oh wow, these bars so pretty interesting! Might have to try them out sometime!! We love cereal!!!
I love having a recipe to create this on my own! My youngest is a super picky eater but I have found out he loves cereal and cereal bars, I would much rather create them from home than buy a box at store. Going to pin this to try later!
I must try if my son likes this. He gets bored with the same old cereals fast and then we have loads of them open at the same time.
These sound tasty!
Great idea to mix it up. Makes perfect sense. We have a habit in our family of mixing up different cereals for breakfast.
those raisin bran cereal bars look awesome. are they crunchy as they look? YUM!
They have a great combination of crunchy and chewy, Martha!
I love the freestyle cereal idea. Although I’d need them in a bowl with separators. I don’t like my foods mixing like that all crazy like.
yum! i love cereal bars– i just add a special k bar 🙂
I love this! I remember never wanting to wake up in time for a good breakfast as a kid and making my Grandmother buy those totally unhealthy cereal bars. Well, as an adult I’m guilty of just not eating breakfast at all. I am trying to change that. When I’m busy or in a rush, I think these will do the trick. I’m going to pin this.
Yum these cereal bars sound wonderful! I will have to try out combining more than two types of cereal!
Your Rasin Cereal bars look delicious! It’s a great idea to mix up different cereals!
Those cereal bars sound good. I don’t combine cereals but it would be a nice change of pace.
I have been mixing my cereals for a long time before it was called freestyling, but I haven’t made many cereal bars. This recipe looks like my family would enjoy it.
Eggs and bacon, lol. I used to love mixing different cereals together your bars look amazing!
That is great that you used healthier ingredients but they still look delicious!
raisin bran is my husbands favorite cereal, i wished there were more recipes to use with this cereal.
I love all of the older Kellogs cereals. I think there is nothing better about plain old Corn Flakes!
your cereal bars look delicious! What a great snack they would make or a breakfast for on the go!
I didn’t know it had a name! I’m a freestyler from way back!
I have got to try these now they look super delish and much healthier than other recipes that I have seen thanks for sharing this one.
Those look really good. I might have to try that with Frosted Flakes and Froot Loops! 🙂
These look so yummy!! I am going to make this week for my hubby!
These cereal bars look so delicious. What a great way to have breakfast on the run. I will be making these cereal bars very soon. Thank you for the recipe.
Those look yummy, my kids would love them!
I love mixing my cereals!
Those homemade bars look amazing! I’ll have to try them. I would definitely like my son to eat them over most other cereal bars. Luckily, his favorite cereal bars are Kellogg’s Nutri-Grain Bars.
This is pretty cool. I tend to get indecisive when it comes to choosing my food, especially when we go out to eat. This is a clever idea. Thanks for sharing.
What a fun idea! There are so many possibilities with Kellogg’s.
Choc chips in them are good
Those look delicious but yet they’re nutritious. Gotta love that for sure!
Raisin Bran is one of my favorite cereals! I bet your bars are great.
Yum. Those look so good. I love cereal bars. Will definitely have to make these.
So fun! We mix cereals up all the time here… my kids get very bored with food very easily 🙂
What a fun and tasty idea! I’d definitely love to try this!
This is a good idea and seems like lots of fun.
This is great! We’ve been looking for tasty, gluten-free bars but haven’t found any my hubs likes yet. Maybe I’ll have to try this recipe to make our own!
I love Raisin Bran and those cereal bars look great! I’m usually scared to mix and match my cereals but I tried Cheerios with Coco Puffs the other day and it was actually pretty good.
I so want to try this. Will be a lot cheaper than me buying the bars as well. Great idea and I’m always amazed at why I didn’t think of it. 🙂
Those look so good. My kids love cereal so these would be a hit at our house.
I have done the half and half cereal thing before. That cereal bar recipe sounds so amazing. I will definitely be giving that a try.
Those are great cereal bars and I love that it’s made with Kellogg’s cereals.
I’ve only done freestyle when I ran out of one kind and still had milk in the bowl. lol But I love the idea of making treats from a couple of our favorite cereals!
These cereal bars sound and look yummy! I seen shredded wheat, that is my FAV!
My kids mix cereal all the time, but I never thought of making them into bars. Looks yummy
I love that you mixed it up. I do that all the time. Your bars look great! Thanks for the recipe.
Just yesterday I had cherrios and raisin brand together. Yumm!
I love Raisin Bran but I never thought to make it into bars before. They sound yummy.
I really stick to my cereal but gosh these look good!
Ha — I can remember mixing cereals as a kid … the cereal bars are such a fun way to do that now!
Ooh the bars look good. I don’t think I’ve ever mixed cereal before LOL.
These look really god! I like the addition of the dried fruit in them!
I’ve never tried to combine cereals like that. Not sure that would sit well with me. Those Raisin Bran bars on the other hand look amazing!!
Love this idea. I should get the boys together and let them make their own!
Those cereal bars would be popular in my home with some Frosted Flakes. My mom used to empty the last of the cereal boxes into one big Tupperware container when we were younger. Of course we pretty much always had the sweeter cereals so it was mixes of Corn Pops and Froot Loops with some Frosted Flakes or Rice Krispies.
I hadn’t ever thought of doing a Cereal Freestyle but now I want to try it! Especially in bar form!
We mix our cereals all the time. NO one can manage to pick just one.
i spend so much money buying cereal bars and i could easily be making them. thanks, i’m pinning this!
Great idea! My kiddos love cereal bars.