Granola Nut Bars

Ingredients

• 1 cup Rolled (flat) Oats
• 1 cup Oat Bran
• 1 cup Kashi Multi Grain Nuggets ( can be subsituted with any small grained cereal)
• 1 cup Quick cooking Multigrain Oat cereal ( Can be substitued with rolled Oats)
• 1 stick (1/4 lb) Unsalted Butter
• 5 tablespoons Honey
• 1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
• 1/2 cup Brown Sugar
• 1/4 cup Milk
• 1 cup Chopped Nuts and Raisins ( I used Walnuts, Almonds, dried Cranberries and golden Raisins)

1. Mix 4 cups of cereal in a big mixing bowl. I used 1 cup each of rolled oats, Oat  bran, multigrain nuggets, and oat granola.Note: You can use rolled oats mixed with any other quick cooking fine grained cereal available to you - as long as you are using 4 cups of cereal.
2. Chop nuts (walnuts and almonds) and mix them with raisins and dried cranberries (cranberries are optional). Set aside.
3. In a separate bowl heat butter and honey in microwave till the butter melts. Immediately add vanilla extract and mix it into the butter and honey.
4. Pour the warm liquid butter mixture from step 3 onto the cereal mixture from step 1. Mix them together.
5. Add milk, brown sugar and chopped nuts and raisins into the cereal-butter mixture. Mix them together.
6. Cover a baking sheet with aluminum foil. Grease the aluminum foil. Fold the granola mixture from the mixing bowl onto the baking sheet. Spread the granola on the baking sheet and press it using another aluminum foil into a flat smooth layer.
7. Preheat the oven to 350 ⁰ F. Place the baking sheet into the oven and bake for 25 minutes (the edges will turn brown).
8. Remove the baking sheet from oven and let the baked granola cool for 5 minutes. Then cut the granola into square (or rectangular) pieces. After the granola bars cool off completely, separate the granola bars and store them at room temperature in an air tight container.
9. Eat or serve as breakfast, snack or dessert.