Quick and Easy Snack Ideas: Apple Slices with Yogurt and Granola

Need a quick and easy snack that is full of healthy ingredients and also fulfills that sweet tooth? Try slicing your favorite apple (mine is Fuji because it is so delicate and sweet) and adding a couple of tablespoons vanilla yogurt and top with your favorite granola. Voila!

What is also nice is that you can prepare these in advance (adding a little lemon juice to the apple slices so they do not brown) and throw them in the fridge the night before.

For some variation, change up the fruit. My alternate favorite is sliced strawberries and a handful of blueberries instead of apple slices.
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Peanut Butter Granola Apples

I have a new addiction, and it is called Peanut Butter Granola Apples.  

I found the recipe from a wonderful blog called Eat Yourself Skinny which you should all check out for nommy healthy recipes of all shapes and flavors.  Of course I had to play with the recipe just a bit, but mostly it's the same.  I lowered the calorie count on it by using the Splenda Brown Sugar Blend instead of plain brown sugar, added a bit of vanilla by using Nielsen-Massey's Vanilla Bean Paste, and after tasting, discovered I MUST use a Fuji apple instead of her suggested Granny Smith apple.  It's got to be my perpetual sweet tooth causing me to crave more sugar.  I also decided it's much easier to cut 8 apple wedges using my apple slicer instead of rings which would leave me with bloody stumps for fingers.

Peanut Butter Granola Apples

Ingredients

1 Fuji apple (for sweetness)

1/4 cup Pecan Vanilla Granola (recipe below)

1 Tbsp. natural peanut butter

1/2 Tbsp. Clover Honey

Directions

1. Slice the apple into 8 wedges.
2. Mix the peanut butter and honey until well combined.
3. Spread peanut butter honey blend on both sides of each apple wedge.
4. Dip both sides in the granola mix.

Pecan Vanilla Granola

Ingredients

2 Tbsp. Splenda brown sugar blend

1 Tbsp. water

2 tsp. canola oil

1/2 heaping tsp. ground cinnamon

1 cup uncooked rolled oats

1/2 cup chopped pecans

1/8 tsp. vanilla bean paste

Cooking spray 

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 300 degrees F.  
2. Combine Spenda and 1 Tbsp of water in a medium microwave-safe bowl.  
3. Microwave on high for 30 seconds or until Splenda is dissolved.  
4. Stir in oil, cinnamon and vanilla paste.  
5. Add oats and pecans, stirring until coated and you see little bunches of granola sticking together.
6. Spread oat mixture on a rimmed baking tray coated with cooking spray. 
7. Bake at 300 degrees F for 30 minutes or until browned, stirring twice.  
8. Spread mixture in a single layer on wax paper to cool completely.  
9. Store in an airtight container. 

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