Chocolate Banana Breakfast Bars

Parents don't let the title fool you! These fun-filled breakfast bars are also filled with all the good stuff you want your kids to eat such as whole-wheat flour, ground flax, oats, yogurt and banana. The chocolate chips add the fun that kids want!

- 3/4 cup packed brown sugar
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/4 cup soft, non-hydrogenated margarine
- 1/2 cup mashed banana (1 medium)
- 1 cup plain non-fat yogurt
- 2 eggs
- 2 tsp vanilla
- 1 1/2 cup whole-wheat flour
- 1/4 cup ground flax seed
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 3 cups oats, uncooked
- 1 cup chocolate chips

Heat oven to 350 degrees.

Beat sugars and margarine together. Add banana, yogurt, egg and vanilla.

Combine flour, flax, baking soda and cinnamon in a separate bowl. Add flour mixture to the wet ingredients and mix well.

Stir in oats and chocolate chips.

Spread dough onto an ungreased 13x19 inch baking pan and bake 25-30 minutes. Once cooled, cut into 24 bars.

These bars even hold together well enough for lunch bags.