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Right, so I decided to try my hand at homemade granola bars now that the wedding invitations seem to have eased off and I’m less busy.

I fried some sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds and rolled oats, then put them in a bowl and stirred in some orange peel preserves and honey. Into a baking pan lined with greaseproof paper, I poured in the granola and flattened it out. I topped it with another sheet of greaseproof paper and stuck the pan in the fridge to cool. A few hours later, I was all set to cut my granola into bars but found they weren’t sticking together.

I added more honey thinking maybe there wasn’t enough earlier to hold everything together. Nope, so I decided to bake it. When I took  that lovely slab of bedrock granola out of the oven and started cutting, I ended up with this !! How do you like my granola bars?

What? They don’t look like bars to you? You sure ? Well, okay, I managed to get a few jagged chunks (not bars, mind you!) here and there. But by the time I got them unstuck from the greaseproof paper, even those few miserable chunks had gone to pieces.

What a disaster! I showed the kids “my new style of granola bars” and we just sat there laughing. I scooped up the bits (literally) and now I have a whole container of granola bits to finish up.

I don’t like to waste food so I guess I’m stuck with this for breakfast. Every so often, I have to fish out the paper fragments floating on the milk and leave them on the side of my cereal bowl. See the paper fragments in the picture? Those are the ones I caught. As for the ones I didn’t catch, don’t worry, I’ve digested them, hahaha. Honestly I could develop a taste for paper !