Fruity bars

[Arabica]

DS loves those moist fruity bars you can buy in wholefood shops or as made by Baby Organics. They contain lots of dried fruit and apple juice but, unlike a flapjack, no oats or other cereal and there's no flour or sugar in them. They're quite expensive, so I'm wondering if anyone has a recipe for something similar I could make at home?

Jamie Oliver has a recipe in Happy Days for fruit sweets which look v similar to these - otherwise try a search for fruit leather.

have you tried hum-zingers. all natural and tesco and boots sell them.

Sounds good, Mumofelise. Will check out Boots. Fruit leatheris that what the proper name is? No wonder couldn't find the recipe anywherewas getting bogged down in flapjacks. So thanks Candy.

Julian Graves have some - 5 for £1 I think. We buy the Sunrype ones in Canada and bring them back with us - they're made in the area we go to (although you can get them here in Holland & Barrett sometimes). "Fruit Leathers" is what they seem to be known as in re usually called over there - but they're more chewy (sort of leathery - hence the name) than "moist". The humzingers ones are much softer, as are the baby organix ones I think.

I've never heard of Julian Graves--is it a wholefood shop?

Sort of - they sell big bigs of nuts, dried fruit, sweets, cooking ingredients etc in mimimal packaging: website for details of where they have shops.