Healthy Peanut Butter Balls Recipe. How to Make Easy 3-Ingredient Energy Bars at Home Cooking Lessons from The Kitchn. Power bars!
Make them at home with only three ingredients and a food processor. Prepare for your mind to be blown. Ready? Homemade energy bars. Three ingredients. I am a huge fan of chewy, nutty, fruit-filled energy bars of the sort made by Lärabar. I tinkered with ratios a bit, but in the end, I decided to take the most straight-forward path: equal parts dried fruits, nuts, and pitted dates. My favorite is still cherries, almonds, and dates (which are pictured here), but you can swap out the cherries and almonds for any dried fruit or nut. You can also play around with adding other ingredients into the mix: a few tablespoons of chia seeds, a handful of coconut, even some chocolate chips. Making energy bars really is that simple.
Makes 8 large bars or 16 small square-shaped bars What You Need Ingredients 1 cup nuts 1 cup (12-15 whole) pitted dried dates, preferably Medjool Equipment Food processor Plastic wrap or wax paper Sharp knife Instructions Roast the nuts (optional). Homemade Clif Bars. It doesn’t matter if it’s a three-course meal on the grill, a simple barbecue, or an impromptu picnic, summer outdoor eating lends a magical feeling to food.
Even unwrapping and eating a popsicle, trying to keep up with its melting, is such a treat. And because I like to get out and go, energy bars are always a convenient and oh-so-portable option for heading off to the park or making longer treks by plane or car. When I’m hungry and busy, and there is no other food in sight, an energy bar eaten on a park bench in the sunshine exceeds haute cuisine. How to Make Homemade Savory Power Bars. I love to make homemade power bars.
They are so much better than store-bought options–better quality ingredients, frugal, no wasteful packaging–and are perfect for quick, nutritious snacks and mini-meals any time of day. But as much as I enjoy my naturally sweet creations, I’ve long wanted to create a savory power bar, one completely absent of sweet ingredients that is every bit as portable and variable as homemade granola bars, larabars, and clif bars. High Protein. 22 Healthy Snack Bar Recipes Perfect for Lunchboxes. Homemade Protein Bars for Serious Athletes. By Mike Mahler Virtually all of the protein bars on the market are garbage.
Loaded with sugar, artificial ingredients and low quality proteins, you might as well eat a Snickers bar--which is probably a better nutritional than most high-priced protein bars. The only worthwhile protein bar I can think of that is the Organic Food Bar, which you can find at Trader Joe's, Whole Foods Market and online. Still, even these are high in sugar and nowhere close in quality to the homemade protein bar recipe below.
These homemade protein bars that are influenced by a recipe that I picked up from John Berardi are nothing less than super meals--extremely healthy and perfect for hard-training athletes--I eat them everyday and know that you'll like them as well. Here are the ingredients you'll need: 1. Use your favorite protein powder. 2. Loaded with protein and healthy fats, almond butter tastes great and binds the other ingredients together. 3. Spices can turn good meals into great meals. 4. 5. 6. 11 foods to supercharge your workout. Spring is in full swing here in Seattle.
Flowers and trees have been in bloom for some time, but the surest sign of the season is streets crowded with sun-deprived runners and cyclists sans rain gear. As we enter “the magic time” in the Pacific Northwest (well, almost…) – dry, 14-hour days filled with sun-drenched waterfronts, gentle breezes, and warm-but-not-sweltering temperatures – I’m training for my third endurance race, the Seattle Rock n Roll Half Marathon on June 23. Maximizing my energy jumps to the top of my priority list when I’m running up to 26 miles a week (plus yoga, Pilates, and strength training in between). Whatever your workout or sport, these “energy-packed eats” will help you maintain steady energy throughout the week and boost it during your toughest workouts. Whole grains: “Whole grain” cereals are so heavily processed that they barely resemble the grains they came from (or the nutritional profile of those grains).
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