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Recipe I snatched from the British Weightwatchers site - for faerishimmer and anybody else who's interested...

Ingredients:
5 sprays low-fat cooking spray
200 g Sainsbury's Porridge Oats
100g sultanas
100 g dates (raw, without stone)
50 g linseed
50 g pumpkin seeds or sunflower seeds
50 g hazelnuts, roughly chopped
50 g almonds, roughly chopped
75 g muscavado sugar, light
1 small can evaporated milk, 170 g
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
3 medium eggs, beaten

Instructions:
Preheat the oven to Gas Mark 4/180°C/fan oven 160°C. Spray a 20 cm (8 inch) square baking tin with low fat cooking spray. Line with non-stick baking parchment.

Mix together the porridge oats, sultanas, dates, linseeds, pumpkin or sunflower seeds, hazelnuts and almonds. Stir in the sugar.

Beat the evaporated milk, vanilla extract and eggs together. Stir into the dry ingredients, then pour into the prepared tin and level the surface.

Bake for 20 - 25 minutes until set and golden. Cool in the tin for 20 minutes, then remove and trim the edges. Cut into 16 fingers. Store in an airtight tin or wrap and freeze in a rigid freezer box.



Just about everything of the dry ingredients, with the exception maybe of the oats, could very likely be replaced by something else, or you can add more stuff.
Raisins instead of sultanas or dates, brazil nuts instead of hazelnuts or almonds, dried cranberries, chopped dry fruit...


( general diet stuff )