Granola Recipe

During tenth grade cross-country, I was in the best shape of my life. The tenth grade is also, when I took my college placements tests and started my two minors that I finished upon graduating highschool; doing college was my version of going to a private highschool, it was a better fit for me, along with my private music lessons. For the amount of money private school is, you might as well just start college early instead, which is what I told a boyfriend when he tried to be mean to me about where we went to highschool; he should have just done college like me is what they meant to say I’m sure. :) Who cares as long as you’re smart?! He also picked on me a bit for professional running of marathons, versus for a collegiate team, but I loved running with my college’s team even though I was not on the team; you need to spell things out for boys sometimes. I made that guy look at life differently in the long run, he is secretly a nice man from time to time nowadays, there should be a before and after picture; like the before and after pictures of my rescue chihuahuas. It made me a very open minded person, because it is not what I wanted, but I think it turned out even better than what I actually wanted. I was tutoring adults in Shakespeare when I was sixteen, and it was really funny, but we had a fabulous time nonetheless. I wore my black linen dress to my college classes in highschool, and thought that I looked so cool and professional.

My favorite snack for after practice were homemade granola bars, and a ginormous bottle of water with a straw to make it fancy. I would always bring snacks for the entire team to share, among other friends, so nobody felt left out by my munching on snacks. Here is a good granola bar recipe, you can add more honey to your liking too.

Granola Bar Recipe

3 cups of oats

2 cups of puffed rice

3 tablespoons of chia seeds

1 cup of honey

1/2 cup of butter or margarine or Crisco

1 teaspoon of vanilla

1 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 cup of whole almonds, or to desire

1/2 cup of dried cranberries, cherries, strawberries or any desired dried fruit

1/2 cup extra dark miniature chocolate chips, or to desire

Bake on 350 in a brownie pan for approximately fifteen minutes.

Sometimes for a meet or invitational, you could put the granola bars in cellophane bags with a pretty ribbon tied into a lovely bow for look appeal. Everyone can take the ribbon and put it in their hair, around their wrist like a bracelet, around their ankle like a bracelet, or onto their shoe laces; which is a fun way to team bond during a race.

I loved having a pizza party after every invitational and meet with my team. Then, we would have hot coco with rainbow marshmallows for dessert. After having our spaghetti dinner the night before the race, with lots of loaves of Italian bread from Columbus Bakery or sometimes stretch bread from Patisserie. Buttering stretch bread, that’s already all butter! Wegman’s bagels the morning of a meet, sometimes I would eat cinnamon sugar flavored to make me extra fast from a sugar rush. Our team totally had the best foods!