This is a great, throw together quick recipie! I found it because I didn't have any "standard" ingredients ie: eggs, brown suger, chocolate etc. It tastes good too :) After reading the other reviews, I made it in a smaller pan and SO glad I did, I also increased the flour and oats.

These cookies are awesome! I did follow Angele's suggestion about increasing the flour, oats, sugar and butter. I also added chopped walnuts, cinnamon and a bit more oats to the topping. This is the second time I've made these in three weeks and this time I used 12oz of preserves. I think the hardest part about making them is waiting for them to cool so that I can eat them! A co-worker described them really well, she said they taste like strawberry Good Humor bars. Yummy!

I followed this recipe for the oatmeal crumb for the most part and used another recipe with date filling. I used 1/2 cup homemade apple butter(can also use apple sauce) and only 1/2 cup lite margarine to cut back on the fat. They still came out chewy and the whole family loved them. The extra spice in the apple butter gave them a great flavor. I agree with some of the other reviews with the pan size. I did not have enough to fill a 13 x 9 pan. I'm still giving 4 stars for a great recipe.

Made these last night and they were WONDERFUL. A little thin so next time I will use a smaller pan or make more of the crust mixture. Otherwise, they were delicious!!! =)

These have potential, they're good...not great. Easy, throw together recipe. Maybe with some tweaking these could be yummy. Nuts, smaller pan...more coconut, maybe cinnamon? Something. =)

Very easy to make, but a little too sweet for my taste. I like using oatmeal bars for quick on-the-go breakfast bars, and these were a little too messy and "dessert-like". Also, I substituted almond extract for the vanilla extract, and it was too strong.

I used almond extract instead of vanilla and they were great!

Delicious! I did increase the flour and oatmeal to 1.5 cups each, cut back on the sugar to 1/2 cup, and used a 9x9 baking pan. Definitely a keeper!

Very good. I made more crumb mixture after reading the other reviews, which was definitely a good thing. They would have been very skinny otherwise! I also used more coconut, as we're big fans of it around here. Instead of jelly, I cooked strawberries down to a thick sauce and spread that - which was excellent! I made a 13x9 pan, and half was strawberry and the other half was blackberry jam, and everyone liked the fresh strawberry side best.

25 minutes in the oven definitly isn't long enough. I didn't realize this until everything was cool and I was eating it and there was still a starchy flour-y taste to it.

Delicious! I made the following changes, used a 9" sq pan for a thicker bar and more coconut for the topping. Next time I'll add nuts. Thank you Flo!

This recipe was great! I usualy would get the raspberry oatmeal bar recipe off of a western family oatmeal box but we didnt have one so i used this instead.I added some chocolate powder to it though. this was a great recipe for mothers day if you cut out a heart!:)

Delicious recipe. Everyone loved it. We added melted chocolate to the top for a quick chocolate fix. Thanks.

This is a very good recipe. I did have to use a smaller pan because I didn't have enough crust for the bottom. I will deffinately make this again but with these changes, 1.5 cups flour, 1.5 cups oats, 2/3 cup sugar, 2/3 cup butter, didn't use salt because butter is salted. This will give me more crust as it was very delicate. I also used raspberry jam and it was very yummy. I'll try appricot next time just for a change. Very good though. :)