Moderately healthy rice krispie thingies?

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DS has suddenly shown an interest in eating rice crispies, but only dry. I thought I might make some sort of rice krispie biscuit/cake thing for him.

Anyone have any ideas for recipes suitable for a 13 month old? I'm not wild about the idea of giving him lots of chocolate or marshmallows which seem to be what most of these things are held together with. What else could I use that'll set hard enough to stick the krispies together?

I wonder if it would work with oats, butter and honey - kind of like a flapjack?

just use golden syrup

it will obv make it sugary.

You could try combining in a different way, eg. layer in a glass, rice krispies in bottom, berries in the middle, plain yoghurt on top, but obv this isn't quite as portable.

Just don't bother. Life's too short.

give him the rice crispies, and some plain yoghurt in a bowl and show him how to mix them up.

Just use chocolate - you really don't need a lot.

Well, he can have them in a bowl, or just by the handful for that matter, but I was really just thinking that maybe, if he likes them, I could use them to make some kind of portable snack and expand our repertoire a bit.

If I use chocolate I will eat them all, which would be bad.

If you start with rice krispies, even if you stick the things together with organic, fairtrade miracle-juice you're not going to end up with a particularly healthy end result. Get some really good quality high cocoa-solids chocolate to melt, make smallish quantities and enjoy them for what they are... a little treat.

Chopped dried apricots are nice with dark chocolate and are satisfyingly chewy and sticky - and a source of iron and fibre.

I have a recipe from a children's cookbook that is not particularly healthy but...

1.5 cups cornflakes
1.5 cups oats
1 cup rice krispies
0.5 cup shredded coconut
400g can skim condensed milk

Mix together, press in pan and bake for approx 40mins @160/140 degrees.

DD didn't like them but DH loved them! He suggested adding raisins and drizzling chocolate on top...

Make cornflake cakes with chocolate plus chopped nuts, dried apricots, raisins, dried cherries, coconut, whatever.

They are not healthy but at least they have some good stuff in as well as the crap!