Sweet and Salty Pretzel Peanut Bars

These yummy bars are a sweet and salty version of the seven layer bars I grew up with. They are almost ridiculously easy to make and, aside from the cooling time, super fast too!  My only regret is that I only got one because I made them to send to my daughter to snack on during final exam week in college.  I've even been asked a couple of times by my son and husband if I sent all of them because they wanted another, so I will definitely have to make them again.

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Strawberry Bars for National Strawberry Month

May is National Strawberry Month, and I have been wanting to try this idea for a while, so it seemed like the perfect time.  They are similar to the ever popular lemon bar, but with strawberries. And, I don't mean strawberries and lemons, I mean just strawberries.  Every recipe I have seen was a strawberry-lemon combination, which I am sure is delicious too, but I wanted just strawberries this time, so I came up with my own recipe from a combination of several others.  They are actually the color of the ones in the picture - kind of lavender-pink, so if you want really pink ones, you might want to add a little food coloring.

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