1,104 apple sauce recipes

I recently came across another way to use up some of those cartons of oats and bags of bran spilling out of my pantry. Brandi of Bran Appetit posted an intriguing recipe for Brandi's Cookie Bars. I used her recipe with a few changes to make cookie bars of my own. Please visit Brandi's blog for the original recipe. And if you're a fan of oatmeal cookies and chocolate, make these now! Oatmeal-Bran Cookie Bars (adapted from Bran Appetit)

Crockpot meatballs in a tasty home-made BBQ sauce.

Classic slow-cooked apple butter with cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg simmered for 4 hours in the oven or crockpot for thick, spreadable preserve.

A copycat Kenny Rogers barbecue sauce, sweet and fruity with an applesauce base, brown sugar, lemon, and a hint of cinnamon. A glossy basting sauce that caramelizes beautifully on ribs and chicken.

Whole wheat pancakes sweetened naturally with banana, applesauce, and maple syrup. A no-fat, high-fiber breakfast that comes together with one egg and pantry staples.

These apple pancakes were indeed amazing. So moist and delicious. I will make them again for breakfast tomorrow morning. Totally addicted!

Low-cal brownies: a quick blender batter that swaps applesauce for butter and a sugar substitute for sugar, baked into a light chocolate fix. A guilt-free brownie ready in about 30 minutes.

Good as a quick barbecue sauce but we use it for a dipping sauce for chicken fingers or homemade chicken nuggets.

Fruit chili relish combines tomatoes, peaches, apples, onions, and red peppers cooked down with pickling spices and cider vinegar. A sweet-tangy preserve for canning.

Nutty whole wheat muffins bursting with tender apple chunks and warm cinnamon spice. Simple pantry ingredients come together for a hearty, fiber-rich breakfast that freezes beautifully.

This is plain cornbread, not a corn flavored cake, so don't expect it to be fluffy or sweet. It's great with black-eyed peas, new potatoes, green onions, sliced tomatoes, and buttermilk, i.e., your basic Southern farm fare. It's also very nice cold, broken into bite-sized pieces in a glass of cold milk and eaten with a spoon.

Low-fat banana bread loaded with bran flakes and applesauce in place of oil, no eggs and no butter required. A high-fiber loaf with old-fashioned banana flavor.

Mom's whole wheat blueberry pancakes use applesauce and soy milk for a dairy-free vegan-friendly breakfast. Hearty whole-grain pancakes with juicy berries and no eggs.

Vegan whole-wheat banana bread sweetened naturally with mashed bananas and applesauce. No eggs, no dairy, no oil. A wholesome plant-based loaf with deep banana flavor and a tender crumb.

Lighter poke cake built on a yellow cake mix doctored with lemon gelatin, applesauce, and egg substitute, then drenched in a citrus glaze that soaks into every fork-pricked hole. Tangy, moist, easy.

Whole wheat blender waffles made from whole wheat berries (the grain), soy milk, applesauce and egg substitute. Vegan, dairy-free, fiber-rich, and ground fresh in a blender for the freshest possible flour.