Peanut Butter & Banana Breakfast Squares

This post brought to you by National Peanut Board. All opinions are 100% mine.

I have been baking and sharing a lot of breakfast food this month with you all because September is Better Breakfast Month!  It has always been very important to me to make sure my children eat a nutritious breakfast every single day.  I believe that breakfast IS the most important meal of the day and making time for breakfast and choosing to incorporate ingredients like peanut butter which is high in fiber, protein and good fats can play a role in maintaining your diet.

These soft, thick and chewy Peanut Butter & Banana Breakfast Squares are a tasty breakfast that the whole family will love.  These on-the-go breakfast squares are full of peanut butter, bananas, and old fashioned oats that will keep you full until it’s time for lunch.  That’s always important to me.  I would hate to have my children come home from school and say, “Mom, I was so hungry today.”  I love adding peanut butter to many of the breakfast items I bake regularly because peanut butter is a natural, plant-based source of eight grams of protein and more than 30 essential nutrients and phytonutrients.   Peanut butter is also a very budget-friendly ingredient for your morning meals. On average, peanut butter costs 16 cents per ounce, which is enough peanut butter to make one sandwich!

If I am serving these bars warm, right out of the oven, I usually bake them with a few fresh slices of banana on top.  They kind of melt into the bar and just add a sweet gooey topping to these.  If I am baking them to freeze ahead of time, I simply skip that step!

If you have hectic mornings, or sometimes forget to eat breakfast yourself, then these wholesome bars are for you!  With simple ingredients and the convenience of making them ahead of time, how can you go wrong?  This month challenge yourself and your family to eat breakfast everyday.  See the difference in your children and yourself.  Have Peanut Butter for Breakfast! Breakfast can even be as easy as a toasted English Muffin topped with your favorite peanut butter and fruit or even a waffle topped with peanut butter instead of syrup.  Give it a try!  You owe it to yourself to feel your best!

Since I love peanut butter, I wanted to share some of my favorite Peanut Butter Fun Facts!

• It takes about 540 peanuts to make a 12-ounce jar of peanut butter
• Peanuts contribute more than $4 billion to the USA economy each year
• The average child will eat 1,500 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches before he/she graduates high school
• Peanut butter is consumed in 90 percent of USA households

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