I wanted to make a cereal bar – something that Pete could take with him cycling, and I could eat after swimming, for an energy hit.  They’re so ridiculous expensive to buy, and we have muesli sitting in the cupboard uneaten.

I googled a bit, and came up with this:

I soaked the contents of a 250g bag of dried tropical fruit in about 5 tablespoons of apple juice for about half an hour.  Then I whizzed them up in the food processor.

Put 330g of muesli in a bowl, and melted 225g of marg in the microwave.  Added marg and fruit to the muesli and stirred it well.

Put it in a 7″ square silicon cake pan, and baked at gas 5 for about 40 minutes.  Cooled in the pan, scoring it into bars when it was warm.

They are very nice but not quite the right texture – they need to be a bit stickier, but I don’t want to add syrup, so I shall have a mull.