Healthy Breakfast Granola Bars

• Preheat oven to 350°F. Line a large rectangular baking dish (9" x 13") with parchment paper, overhanging the parchment on each side of the dish for easy removal of the bars after baking.
• In a large mixing bowl, mash the banana until big lumps are smoothed out.
• Add in the vanilla and stir.
• Puts oats into a food processor (or use a hand blender in a separate bowl) and pulse until the oats are coarsely chopped (but still have plenty of texture).
• Stir the pulsed oats into the banana mixture until fully incorporated.
• Stir the almonds, cereal of choice, chocolate chips, hemp hearts, cinnamon, and salt into the banana-oat mixture until fully combined.
• Add the mixture into the prepared dish. With slightly wet hands, smooth out until evenly flat. Press down on the mixture until compacted.
• Bake for 22 to 26 minutes, until it has become firm and lightly golden along the edges.
• Remove the granola slab (together with the parchment) from the dish and set to cool for 10 minutes.
• Once cool, slice the slab into 12 bars.
• Leftovers can be stored in the fridge for a week in an air tight container, or stored in the freezer for 4 to 6 weeks.