During the school semesters, whenever we’re out grocery shopping, I’m always reminding my girls to choose their own ’school food’. They don’t eat canteen food. Instead they bring some biscuits or cookies.

Lately because of the longer school hours, I have to pack them a slightly more substantial lunch box of sandwiches, pasta or burgers, anything that still tastes reasonably good even when it’s cold, to last them till 3pm. You can check my lunchbox ideas here.

Last weekend, we popped into Cold Storage while waiting for our lunch to be served and a promoter stopped us in our tracks with samples of Special K granola bars.

Mm, yum! We love granola bars… and they were on sale too! There were so many flavors to choose from, we ended up sampling almost all of them. The promoter was very nice and insisted we try everything .

I ended up buying 2 boxes of blueberry, and peaches and berries, and getting 2 vanilla bars free. Each bar is only 90 calories so it’s great, they’re filling but non-fattening .

Now I’m thinking of making my own granola bars. All I need is my trusty non-stick pan to dry fry some of the ingredients before baking. Although it’s more work for me to make these at home, I like that I get to control the amount of salt and sugar.

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