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It was my turn to bring a snack to my La Leche League meeting on Thursday morning, and I’d just found a great recipe from my local health food store - Goodness Me - so I thought I’d try it out. These were a big hit and SUPER easy to make - kinda like making rice krispie squares but easier. They’re nut-free and gluten free!

No-Nut Cereal Bars

No-Nut Cereal Bars

1 cup sunflower butter
1 cup agave nectar or honey
5 cups crispy brown rice
1/2 cup dried cranberries
1/2 cup dark chocolate chips
1/2 cup chopped dried apricots
1/2 cup pumpkin seeds
1/4 cup flaxseed

In saucepan, bring sunflower butter and agave nectar to a boil. Remove from heat and stir in remaining ingredients. Pour mixture into a buttered 9 x 13 pan. Let sit a coupl eof hours in the refrigerator before cutting into pieces.

I didn’t have any apricot OR cranberry, so I chopped up dried mango and pineapple. Still very delicious!

Just not as often.

And for for long periods of time.

And not generally during the daytime hours.

Vintage Handtowel

I knit this up quite a while ago and I’m absolutely in love with it! It’s the pattern Mitered Hanging Towel from CanadianLiving.com. It’s a 100% cotton towel (you can even tell from this photo that someone has just used it to try their hands!) and it’s the best hand towel I have. I find that normally hand towels in the kitchen smell after a few days’ use. This thing’s been hanging on the oven for weeks (months? I’m not sure …) and nary a smell wafts from it nor your hands after using it. I just need to fix one little thing on it - the buttonhole is a titch too big and the button, although large, keeps sliding out, so I need to sew the hole closed a bit - nothing too big!

I’m working on another one - my idea was originally to have a matching hand towel and dishcloth for every day of the week - but it’s coming slowly. It doesn’t help that I just screwed up the pattern … that generally tends to immobilize me in my knitting - I truly hate fixing knitting mistakes … especially ones that take up an entire row. I think I might just go with the mistake and keep going. It’ll just be a little different in the striping pattern … and maybe that’s fun?