Breakfast bars

Breakfast bars

Try not to think of these as diet bars: though they don’t contain any added refined sugar, the oats and fruit ensure they’re still packed with carbs. With any luck, though, all that fibre and protein should keep you full until lunchtime with a lot more good stuff than your average chocolate bar.

Makes 12

• 4 overipe bananas

• 240g natural yoghurt

• 240g unsalted crunchy peanut butter

• 175g dried cranberries

• 125g whole blanched almonds

• 240g whole oats

• 50g pumpkin seeds

Preheat the fan oven to 200C/390F/gas 6. Mash up the bananas in a large bowl and then add the yoghurt and peanut butter. Roughly chop up the almonds and stir into the mix along with the rest of the ingredients. Spread out the mixture into a 9-inch square baking tin lined with greaseproof paper and bake for 40 minutes. Allow to cool before cutting into 12 slices.