breakfast cookies

I tried several "Breakfast Cookie" recipes and found them a little better than the sawdust of Quaker Oatmeal Squares, but even with extensive tinkering they didn't measure up to a really pleasurable car breakfast. So I decided to try the other direction and start with a good oatmeal cookie recipe and make it healthier. Here's the original:

good oatmeal cookies
preheat 350
2 c flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 t baking powder
1 t salt
whisk together and set aside

cream
1 c butter, softened (actual butter is by far best)
1 c sugar
1 c brown sugar packed
2 lg eggs
2 t vanilla

stir in flour til moist and then add
3 cups oats NOT instant (five-minute, not one)
1 1/2 c raisins

drop 2 inches apart
(I like these on parchment paper, otherwise spray cookie sheet)
bake 11-13 minutes, should be golden but moist in cracks

Then I started making them more like breakfast:
*use whole wheat flour (no one even notices!)
*Add either a chopped apple or reconstituted crumbs from the can of dried apple pieces
*Add a finely grated carrot microwaved a minute to soften and sweeten
*Put raisins plus 1/2 cup craisins and 1/2 cup dried apple bits in a liquid measure with a spoonful or two of apple juice or orange juice concentrate, cover and microwave for one or two minutes and let sit while starting the rest of the recipe (driest thing at the bottom) - or any old dried fruit you need to use up, in small pieces.
*Since you have all the sweet fruit, cut down the sugars by 1/3, and add another 1/2 cup oats thanks to the extra liquid (the juice - or add a smashed banana!)
If you want to try using cooked and processed white beans for 1/2 the butter you can, but so far I've left it buttery to make sure we don't go back to sawdust :) - everything else is healthy, after all.
You can add nuts of course.

You can bake a few and make the rest into balls and freeze (on a parchment-lined cookie sheet, then toss into a bag) for cooking whenever needed.
This is a great way to use old withered apples and hard, dried-up raisins.......
You can also mix up the dough and then add the fruit to one half and chocolate chips to the other half to make everyone happy