Yes its pumpkin season and we are going to do a lot of pumpkin recipes! I go crazy over fall and winter squash and pumpkin by far is the most popular. The pumpkin recipes we make will be healthy, because all the pumpkin recipes I see are loaded with sugar, butter and just too many calories. Why would you want to take away from the flavor of the pumpkin with all that butter and sugar?
By now you know I am all about more bang for your buck or more food for your calories! Because as an American I love my big portions, but I hate the guilt, so let’s make healthy pumpkin recipes. Pumpkin Chia Bars are low in calories and dare I say fat free. They are easy to make, most of the ingredients can be found in the pantry. If you don’t have fresh puree pumpkin you can always use the can version.
Pumpkin Chia Bar Recipe:
2 ¼ cups rolled oats
½ cup honey
1 cup pumpkin puree
1 tsp. vanilla extract
¼ cup chia seeds
Recipe Direction: Preheat oven to 350 degrees, in a 8*8 baking dish place parchment paper and set aside. In a medium bowl add pumpkin, honey, vanilla extract and mix until combine. Fold oats and chia seeds into batter, mix until incorporated. Place dough in baking dish, and press down to each corner is covered. Place in the oven for 20-30 minutes or until a tooth pick inserted in the middle comes out clean. Let cool and cut in to 8 bars and store in air tight container.
Yummy! How healthy and delicious are these bars? Need to try these! What a great and simple recipe Shundara 🙂 Pinned!
Yay! So fall finally hit you? Wonderful 🙂 I go completely crazy over pumpkin as well. These bars look absolutely amazing!
Yay for pumpkin season 🙂 Love that you made a healthy pumpkin treat – I definitely could use a few of these – they look awesome and I love how pretty the chia seeds look in here!
I never know what to do with all my chia seeds, but these pumpkin bars are totally calling my name now. Yum girl!
Oh dear, what a clever way to use pumpkin puree! Darn these chia bars look delicious…I’ve made these oats bars before with maple syrup and almond butter, they were pretty sticky though, but so good! I’ve never made them with chia seeds before, they look so pretty!
Maple and almond butter sound so good and all that sticky goodness oh boy!
I made those and they were fantastic! I did, however, add a good amount of pumpkin pie spice for good measure:)
Can’t seem to PIN this recipe. KeepS saying it can’t find printable images. I don’t care about printable images just want the recipe. Im using my tablet @ mechanics, but just can’t seem to dowload the recipe to my folders on pinterest. Any suggestions?
Hope to hear back from you.
I will try this recipe this weekend. I have so much frozen, pureed pumpkin and you can only do so many pies !
Oh I know the feeling those pies can get boring really quick lol!! I hope you enjoyed these bars they are a huge hit with my readers 🙂
I was looking for a recipe for pumpkin bars and came across this one. So many have brown sugar in them that I am pleasantly surprised that you list honey as one of the ingredients. Now that fall is on the way, I am looking forward to eating something with pumpkin in it. Sounds delicious and a great pre-walk snack before the Astoria, OR 10k Walk-Run coming up in October.
Oh I am so happy you found these helpful! I love honey and most of my readers who made this recipe or either trying to lose weight or love it because there is no sugar. Let me know how you enjoy these bars for the walk-run your doing! Congrats!!