Directions

*Preheat your oven to 400 degrees. *Line a jelly roll pan with foil (or any cookie sheet with sides). No need to grease it, just spread out the oats and wheat germ. *Crush your peanuts. I like to use low sodium dry roasted peanuts, but you can use any type of peanut or nut that you like. I use my mini chopper to chop up the peanuts, but you can crush them in a plastic bag using a cup. *Add the peanuts to the oats and wheat germ and mix. *Toast them in the oven for 10 minutes, stirring after 5 minutes and checking two minutes early. You don’t want the wheat germ to burn. After they are done you can turn off the oven. *Line a 9×13 inch glass baking pan with wax paper. Grease the paper with a little cooking spray and set aside. *Add your toasted mix to a large bowl and pour in fruit of choice. I like to use a 6 oz bag of mixed fruit. *Add the brown sugar, honey, butter, vanilla, and salt to a saucepan. *Melt over medium low heat
until the mixture comes to a simmer or low, low boil. Remove from heat when you see the first little bubbles coming to the surface. *Pour your yummy sugar mixture into the bowl over the fruit and oats. *Stir and make sure that everything is evenly coated. *Now add the chocolate chips *Drop your granola bar mixture into your greased and lined 9×13 pan. *Spread evenly to all sides. *Cover with another sheet of wax paper and press down hard. You aren’t going to bake these, so you need to press them into shape so they won’t fall apart. *Leave the wax paper on top and set aside to cool and set for 2 hours. Then remove top sheet of paper and use the bottom sheet to pick up the entire giant bar and put it on a cutting board or your counter top. *I make four cuts lengthwise and three width wise.

Enjoy!