A Delicious Breakfast Treat!
This Pineapple Oatmeal Bar recipe makes a great treat for breakfast paired with a couple of egg whites or even a yummy snack with your afternoon coffee.
It is low-fat, gluten-free and it makes a great E fuel if you follow Trim Healthy Mama.
Lately, the stores in my area have had these beautiful pineapples on sale for 98 cents each and if you have been around the blog log, you know I love a bargain find!
With that price and the fact that my son and I love fresh pineapple, I have picked up a few with my groceries the last couple weeks.
Pineapple is higher on the glycemic index so we like to enjoy it in small portions and with a nice lean protein source to avoid a sugar spike. Since the pineapple can last a little while in the fridge I cut it up in snack portions, but I also wanted to find other ways to use it.
So one morning I was working on my weekly breakfast menus and decided it would be nice to have a yummy sweet bread-like recipe to enjoy before heading to work or our home school park days.
Normally I would do a healthy blueberry baked oatmeal or banana bread, but since that particular week I had picked up the pineapple instead of bananas I thought, why not, and these Pineapple Oatmeal Bars were born.
Recipe Identity Crisis
It is so moist and delicious thanks to the moisture added by the fruit. It is a cross between baked oatmeal and a quick bread so I wasn’t sure what to call them but after way too much thinking I just went with bars, even though they are not your typical bar shape.
I have now made this recipe twice and though it doesn’t rise up like I wish it would it has become a nice treat to have on stand-by. The mixture is super easy to pull together and a basic recipe that doesn’t call for any fancy ingredients.
When I baked mine for this post I had a few more oats left in my container so I sprinkled them over the top, but that step is totally optional.
After baking the bars I lie to cut my loaf into seven to eight nice size pieces and my favorite way to eat it is for breakfast with coffee and a couple of scrambled egg whites with veggies.
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Pineapple Oatmeal Bars || Low Fat, THM "E"
Ingredients
- 1 1/4 cups of dices fresh pineapple
- 1/3 cup of almond milk
- 4 large egg whites
- 1/2 cup of fat free Greek yogurt
- 1/3 cup of Pyure Brand Sweetener or 2/3 cup of THM Gentle Sweet
- 1 Tbsp apple cider vinegar
- 1 3/4 cups of oat flour
- 1/4 cup of whey protein
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1 tsp ground ginger
- 1/2 tsp salt
Instructions
- In a blender add in the fresh pineapple and almond milk. Pulse the mixture a few times until the pineapple is in very small pieces but not completely pureed.
- Add the pineapple mixture to the mixing bowl and add the egg whites, Greek yogurt, apple cider vinegar, and sweetener. Mix until well combined.
- In a separate bowl add the dry ingredients: oat flour, whey protein, baking powder, cinnamon, ground ginger, salt, and then whisk together.
- With your mixture on low slowly add your dry ingredients to your wet ingredients.
- Spray your standard-size loaf pan with cooking spray and pour your batter into the pan.
- Bake in a preheated oven at 375 for about 50 to 55 minutes. A toothpick will come out clean when the bread is ready.
- When baked place the bread on a cooling rack and let it cool completely before cooling. Yields about 8 slices.
Nutrition Information
Yield
8Serving Size
1 sliceAmount Per ServingCalories 147Total Fat 2gSaturated Fat 0gTrans Fat 0gUnsaturated Fat 2gCholesterol 1mgSodium 248mgCarbohydrates 23gNet Carbohydrates 21gFiber 2gSugar 6gProtein 9g
I am not a nutritionist. If you have strict dietary needs I always recommend using an online nutrition calculator to calculate your totals using your exact brands you're using in this recipe as values may vary per brand.
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Can I use plain yogurt instead of fat free Greek yogurt?
Sure 🙂
Would it mess up the recipe if I left out the whey powder, or would it just have less protein? (Sorry I’m still learning all this stuff.). Can I sub anything for that?
No, it will not hurt Teresa just lower the protein a bit. you can sub more oat flour or even oat fiber in place of the whey protein.
Could this be made with canned pineapple in juice, but drained?
You can if that is all you can find. I might rinse it off also to try and get as much of the sugar off as possible.
Wonder if I can use some canned pineapple tidbits. I like those with stevia.
Oh, I am sure you can Cheryl. I love pineapple!
Hi: this sounds like a unique and yummy recipe. The ingredients specify oat fiber, but the directions say pat flour. Could you tell me which it is I am
supposed to use.
Rebecca, where do the ingredients say “oat fiber”. I just looked at it and it says “oat flour” in the ingredients and in the directions. I may be missing the error somewhere but I don’t see it. It is oat flour, not oat fiber for this recipe.
We have nut allergies here…. what could I use in place of the Almond milk and still be THM-E?
Hi Judy, you can sub water for the almond milk with no issues. Hope you enjoy!
Delicious !! I enjoyed a bar with a OOO peach yogurt this morning. Hope that was overdoing the carbs! I will definately be keeping this in my freezer for a quick breakfast or snack.
Hi Paulette, thank you for stopping by and trying the recipe. I am so glad to hear you enjoyed it. 🙂
did you sprinkle extra oats on top of the bars before baking them? that’s what it looks like from the picture, but i don’t see any mention of it in the recipe…
I did but it isn’t a something that has to be done. I only had about a tablespoon left in my container and didn’t want to waste them so I just tossed them on. I thought I mentioned that in my blog above, but you’re right I better add that optional note it in the recipe as well in case people don’t catch it in the post above. Sorry for the confusion.
Baking soda is not listed in the ingredients but you mention it in the instructions. How much baking soda is needed?
Hi Rachel, no baking soda is needed. I had made some tweaks to the recipe and removed the baking soda. I just missed removing it in the directions. Sorry for the confusion.
The last instruction in the recipe states to let it cool completely before cooking. I’m assuming that’s a mistake. What is it supposed to say?
Linda, yes sorry, cool before cutting. I apologize. Even after reading and rereading there is always something I miss in edits lol. Thanks so much!