Grab It and Go: Homemade Energy Bars

These honey-flavored cereal bars with puffed rice and toasted oats, from Real Snacks by Lara Ferroni, make a great substitute for store-bought energy bars. They can be made with almost any mix of nuts and dried fruit.

Recipe: Cranberry-Pumpkin Seed Energy Bars

These little homemade granola bars are packed with crunchy nuts and tart chewy cherries, and they're totally crave-worthy. You may make them for the kids, but soon the whole family will be munching along.

Recipe: Cherry-Nut Granola Squares

Chewy, crunchy, and delicious, these nut-free snack bars have good-for-you dried fruit, oats, and little explosions of chocolate. We like the flavor of dried cherries or cranberries, but any coarsely chopped dried fruit will work.

Recipe: Nut-Free Chocolate Cherry Snack Bars

Instead of buying pricey energy bars, fuel your fitness routine with this great-tasting homemade energy bar recipe. Whether you use these energy bars as a pre-workout snack or to refuel and recover post-workout, they'll give your body what it needs. Best of all, you can make this energy bar in minutes.

Recipe: EatingWell Energy Bars

For the mornings when cereal just isn't portable enough but you still want a healthy breakfast option, these cereal bars are just the thing.

Recipe: Cranberry-Oat Cereal Bars

The peanut butter in these makes them work well as after-school snacks. Kids will stay full until dinner without any of the chemicals and excess sugar found in many packaged granola bars.

Recipe: Peanut-Butter Granola Balls

Keep a stash of these addictive bars on hand for when you or the kids need a quick energy boost. You won't regret skipping the added sugar and preservatives in store-bought granola bars.

Recipe: Sesame Fruit-and-Nut Bars

This recipe was inspired by chef Lars Kronmark's granola wedges from the Culinary Institute of America at Greystone. Substitute your favorite fruit, nuts, and/or seeds for the sunflower seeds and/or dried cranberries in these granola bars.

Recipe: Crunchy Granola Wedges

Great for breakfast on the go! Golden roasted nuts, seeds, and oats are enveloped by flavorful almond butter in these delectably chewy, no-fuss energy bars. Unrefined turbinado sugar adds a deep caramelly undertone. Feel free to use light brown sugar instead. Bars stored at room temperature will be softer than those that are refrigerated.

Recipe: Almond-Honey Power Bar

These chewy, nutty, white-chocolate-dipped sweets are a little bit granola bar, a little bit trail mix. Pastry chef Luis Villavelazquez of San Francisco's Absinthe Brasserie & Bar wanted to put his own imprint on the portable snacks, so he added a twist: a good dose of spicy black pepper.

Recipe: Sticky Oat-and-Pine-Nut Bars

Bake a pan of these snacks and you'll never go back to the boxed stuff. They're super easy and fun to make with kids. One brand uses almost as many nuts as we do, but a 12-bar box is $30! Our tray of 18 costs only $6, and it's a whole lot tastier.

Recipe: Granola Bars

These snack bars, packed full of whole grains, fruits, and nuts, make great healthy treats for a picnic. They can be made ahead of time and stored in an airtight container for up to 5 days.

Recipe: Fruit-and-Nut Energy Bars

This carbohydrate-rich bar - full of nuts, seeds, fruit, and oats - is a great grab-and-go pre-workout snack on mornings when you don't have time to digest a full meal.

Recipe: Peanut Energy Bars

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