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Berry Vanilla Puff Bars {Freezer Bars, No Bake, Gluten-Free, Healthy, Easy}

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Slightly sweet, crunchy and delicious, your whole family will love these bars.  Just make sure you save some for the kids!

These Berry Vanilla Puff Bars are the perfect, easy, healthy snack for kids and adults! @cascadianfarm #glutenfreeDisclaimer: I was compensated by Cascadian Farms to create these recipe. However, like always, the opinions are entirely my own. Promise 🙂

As a busy mom of three boys that eat ALOT, I am always looking for new breakfast ideas that all of them will like and aren’t overloaded with sugar. Why are so many of the breakfast cereals basically disguised boxes of sugars and preservatives? And of course those are the ones my kids actually want to eat. I can’t buy my kids blue, orange and green cereal on a daily basis. I know that the artificial colors in there do more harm than good and I want them to have a healthy nutritious breakfast before they spend a long day at school.

You can imagine how excited I was when Cascadian Farm sent me their new gluten-free cereal, Berry Vanilla Puffs! It has less sugar than many others out there and the blue puffs are actually made from organic BLUE CORN! I love that so much. And I can feel good about giving it to my kids.

These Berry Vanilla Puff Bars are the perfect, easy, healthy snack for kids and adults! @cascadianfarm #glutenfree

Everyone in the Kelly house likes to eat. We like food. This box of cereal didn’t stand a chance because it’s THAT good. It’s lightly sweet and crunchy. I made a bunch of individual plastic bags of snack mix with the Berry Vanilla Puffs, dried cranberries and gogi berries, pepitas (pumpkin seeds) and sliced almonds. That was my kids’ snack for a few days at school. It’s and healthy and everyone loved it. Since my kids and I are big fans of granola bars and no bake bars for snacks as well, I decided to have a little fun with these puffs. And look how pretty the colors are (no artificial colors of course! 😉  )

These Berry Vanilla Puff Bars are the perfect, easy, healthy snack for kids and adults! @cascadianfarm #glutenfree

I like to keep these bars in the freezer because I love the convenience of just puling them out when I need them. The beauty of this is that you can eat them straight from the freezer. I love that because they won’t get bad and they will always stay fresh.

Like Berry Vanilla Puffs Cereal, these bars are gluten free too for those with allergies. These are simple to make, healthy and delicious.

These Berry Vanilla Puff Bars are the perfect, easy, healthy snack for kids and adults! @cascadianfarm #glutenfree

The best part is how how healthy these are too.  And who doesn’t love a no bake bar?

These Berry Vanilla Puff Bars are the perfect, easy, healthy snack for kids and adults! @cascadianfarm #glutenfree
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Berry Vanilla Puff Bars

Cuisine breakfast, snack
Servings 9 bars
Author Lauren Kelly Nutrition

Ingredients

  • Bottom layer:
  • 1 1/2 cup thawed Cascadian Farms Frozen Harvest Berries
  • 1 1/2 cup almond flour
  • 2 tablespoons coconut oil melted
  • 2 tablespoons 100% maple syrup
  • Top Layer:
  • 3 cups Cascadian Farms Berry Vanilla Puffs
  • 1/2 cup peanut butter or other nut butter
  • 1/2 cup raw honey
  • 1/2 cup dried wild blueberries

Instructions

  1. Grease a 9 x 9 baking pan with cooking spray.
  2. Prepare the bottom layer by pureeing the frozen fruit.
  3. In a medium size bowl, mix pureed berries, almond flour, coconut oil and maple syrup.
  4. Press the mixture into the bottom of the baking pan. Smooth top.
  5. Place in the refrigerator for 15 minutes to set.
  6. Prepare the top layer by mixing Berry Vanilla Puffs, peanut butter, honey and dried blueberries together.
  7. Spread on top of the bottom layer. Place in freezer to set. Remove after 30 minutes and slice into 9 bars.
  8. Place back into freezer until ready to eat. Using a spatula or butter knife, remove from pan. Serve immediately or allow to sit for a few minutes before serving.

I told you that were easy!  And they are packed with antioxidants, fiber and unrefined sugars.  You can feel great about giving your kids these bars in their lunch boxes!
Great news, Cascadian Farms wants you to try their brand new Berry Vanilla Puffs Cereal! We are giving away this awesome prize (below) to one lucky winner!  U.S Residents only please.

These Berry Vanilla Puff Bars are the perfect, easy, healthy snack for kids and adults! @cascadianfarm #glutenfree All you have to do is comment here telling me why you would like to try Cascadian Farm’s new Berry Vanilla Puffs!  Giveaway ends next Sunday, February 1 at 12:00 P.M. EST.  Good luck! And thanks for stopping by 🙂

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  2. i just got a box and i’m in love! it reminds me of eating captain crunch when i was a kid. yikes, i know. but now an organic, wonderful cereal to take its place. over.joyed.

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  5. My kids LOVE corn puff cereal. I rarely buy cereal or make cereal bars but when I do, it is Cascadian Farms usually. I also use maple syrup to sweeten my bars but have not tried coconut flour in them–definitely going to give this one a whirl. My kids will flip!

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  7. Love the looks of this recipe and the fact that it’s organic. A much healthier puff cereal than the Crunch Berries I grew up with! My kids will love this and if they dont I know I will!

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  10. Sounds like a terrific cereal! I’d be happy with a bag of your snack mix or your yummy bars! Love a sweet treat that’s not packed with sugar!

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  12. These look delicious. I love all things berry flavored and this looks like a better version of fruity Kix. I am definitely putting it on the shopping list.

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  15. I love Cascadian Farms cereals but I haven’t seen this one yet. Your recipe looks absolutely amazing and I want to make this. Is this cereal out in stores yet?

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  18. Sorry, it may be organic, but Cascadian Farms is owned by General Mills who belongs to the Grocers Manufactures Association who is spending Millions of dollars to fight against the GMO labeling of our food. I will not buy from companies who deny my right to know what’s in my food!!!

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    • Hi Marlene! All Cascadian Farm products carry the USDA organic seal, which by definition means that they are grown without GMOs. For further transparency, Cascadian Farms enrolled all of their products in the Non-GMO Project and so far, 24 of them have been verified. The rest are still undergoing the verification process, but they hope to hear more soon. You can read more about General Mills’ stance on GMOs here: http://www.generalmills.com/News/Issues/on-biotechnology Thanks so much for stopping by!

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  19. No bake is a huge plus to this recipe! I am always looking for yummy organic cereal options for my son; and these sound delicious.

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  20. I have recently received the diagnosis of Celiac’s so gluten free is my new adventure 🙂 these sound amazingly delicious and would be such a treat!!!!!

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    • Oh I am sorry to hear that Jennifer. You should buy my cookbook, The Everything Wheat-Free Diet Cookbook! I hope you like these bars and I know you will love the cereal! 🙂

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  21. Store bought cereal is a rare treat at our house but it is nice to have options that are fun for the kids and not too sugary or full of artificial colors. I am sure my kids would love to try these.

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  23. I haven’t had cereal like that in ages and it looks so good! We already love most other cascadian farms cereal, cant wait to try this one! and plus I love anything i can make and freeze!

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