Oat and almond breakfast bars

Active time: 15 minutes
Total time: 45minutes plus cooling
Makes: 24 bars

½ cup of heart-friendly vegetable oil
½ cup honey
2tsp vanilla essence
1 egg
2 cups old-fashioned oats, uncooked ¾ Maida
½ cup packed, light-brown sugar
½ cup almonds, sliced
½ cup toasted wheat gram or bran

1. Preheat oven to 180 c (350 f).line a metal plan with lightly greased foil.
2. Stir oil, honey, vanilla and egg until mixed. In another bowl, with a fork, mix oats, maida, sugar, almonds, wheatgerm, and raisins and salt until combined. With rubber spatula, stir honey mixture until blended; scrape into prepared pan. With wet hand, pat mixture evenly into pan.
3. Bake 30to 35minutes or until pale golden around edges. Cool completely in pan on wire rack, about 1 hour.
4. When cool, transfer using foil to cuttingboard.cui=t into squares.
Each bar: about 155 calories,3gm protein,22gm carbs,7gm total fat(1 gm saturated),2gm fibre,9gm cholesterol,80mg sodium.