Down to Earth Granola Weight Watchers

Redsie's Note:

Weight Watchers recipe - 1 cup = 4 points

• Total Time: 50 mins
• Prep Time: 10 mins
• Cook Time: 40 mins

Ingredients:

Servings: 12

• 4 cups old fashioned oats
• 1/2 cup sliced almonds
• 1/2 cup packed light brown sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/4 cup cooking oil
• 1/4 cup honey
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 1/2 cups raisins or 1 1/2 cups dried cranberries

Directions:

1. In a bowl, mix oats, almonds, brown sugar, salt and cinnamon. In a sauce pan, warm the oil and honey. Whisk or stir in the vanilla. Carefully pour liquid over the oat mixture. Stir gently with wooden spoon, finish mixing by hand.
2. Preheat oven to 300°F Spread granola in a 15x10x1” pan. Bake 40 minutes, stirring carefully every 10 minutes.
3. Transfer granola-filled pan to a cooling rack. Cool completely.
4. Stir in raisins or dried cranberries. Seal granola in an air-tight container or self sealing plastic bags.
5. Store at room temperature for 1 week or the freezer for 3 months.

Reviews

[Living la vida a belleza]

THIS IS NOT 4 POINT FOR A CUP! I calculated with with honey, oil, nuts, Splenda 1/2 brown sugar and oats only, no raisins, etc. At 9 servings at 1/2 cup each, this calculates to 5.48 points, so a cup would be more like 11 points. Confused as to why the notes say 4 pts for a cup, but the recipe makes 12 servings, doesn't calculate. It's 2320 calories for the recipe I calculated - 1200 of them coming from the oats, 160 from the honey, 480 from the oil, 380 from the nuts and only 100 from the Splenda/sugar. Total fat is 106g, total fiber is 38. I'm so disappointed, I had planned to bring this in to my Weight Watchers group to share, and have made this several times for myself. BTW, I'd love to be proved wrong. This does taste delicious if you're not on a diet tho.

[Chef #735399]

I also put this in the points calculator for weight watcehrs and it is 7 points a serving on the Points plus plan. I am looking for a recipe for granola that is less points. This one does sound good. I have not tried it.

[like to bake]

I love this recipe, and have added many ingredients, but I decrease the salt a little and add an egg white to the recipe after the honey and oil mixture to help the granola clump together. Also letting it cool completely in the pan before breaking it out to put it in the container helps it to stay together better:)