Energy Bar Recipe. Raspberry & pine nut bars recipe. Energy Bar Recipe. July 6, 2009 At $2 per bar, products like PowerBar can really take a bite out of your wallet. Of course they are incredibly convenient to buy and eat. Can you really make these at home? Recreating an actual PowerBar would be pretty difficult. For the price of a bag of flour, oats, and raisins, you can have 24 bars for about the cost of 2 packaged energy bars. How do you make them? After you bake the energy bars, place them in a plastic bag and freeze them to keep them fresh. These energy bars are adapted from a great kids cookbook. Salad People and More Real Recipes: A New Cookbook for Preschoolers and Up Homemade Energy Bars24 bars Non-stick spray for pan1 3/4 cup all-purpose flour2 cups rolled oats2/3 cup brown sugar1/2 cup raisins1/2 teaspoon salt1/2 teaspoon cinnamon 1 1/2 cups plain yogurt 1/4 cup canola oil Preheat oven to 375 F. Want more like this? 20 Comments: A Real-Life Guide to Losing Weight and Getting Healthy with 100 Recipes Under 400 Calories Read the First Chapter.
The Ultimate Energy Bar Formula. Make Your Own Energy Bars. While energy bars are great for athletes because of their ease and convenience, at $1.50 or more each, they can be expensive. So why not make your own? Here are two tried and true energy bar recipes. If you have a favorite, feel free to sent it to me and I will feature it in an upcoming article. Energy Bar Recipe 1 2 dozen dried figs 1/3 cup honey 4 Tbsp. orange juice 2 Tbsp. lemon juice 2 1/2 cups unbleached flour 1/2 tsp. baking soda 1/4 tsp. baking powder 1 Tbsp. canola oil 1/4 cup dark corn syrup 2 egg whites (or egg substitute) 1 cup oat bran Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Instructions: mix figs, honey, OJ and lemon juice in a food processor. Energy Bar Recipe 2 Nonstick vegetable spray 3 cups puffed wheat cereal 1/2 cup chopped nuts (walnuts or other) 1/2 cup chopped pitted dates or raisins 1/4 cup chopped dried cherries 1/3 cup creamy peanut butter 1/4 cup honey 1/4 cup light corn syrup Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Homemade energy bars: cheap, delicious, and surprisingly easy! Energy bars are a terrific option for athletes – or anyone – looking for a quick source of protein, complex carbohydrates, and vitamins & minerals. Conveniently packaged and easy to throw in a gym or golf bag – or briefcase, for that matter – they’re a quick source of energy for athletes, students, or harried, on-the-go executives. Homemade energy bars offer all these benefits plus will save you money, and they are surprisingly easy to make! ! Before we get to the actual recipe, a few general comments on energy bars: Most commercially available energy bars – Clif Bars, Power Bars, and the like – cost around a dollar each. Our local Wal-Mart sells Clif Bars for $.89 each, and based on my experience, that’s a really good price. Most energy bars contain around 220 calories. For anyone who is less active, energy bars are a good option especially if the alternative is junk food, a candy bar, or the fatty, cholesterol-laden hot breakfast buffet at your hotel.
Other …and after: Enjoy!! Energy Bars Recipe. Energy bars you can make at home. Whether you've resolved to hit the gym more or your busy afternoons require a mid-afternoon pick-me-up, energy bars are a full of foods that provide slow-burning fuel, such as dates and sunflower seeds, that will keep you going through a 12-mile run or that 3 p.m. slump. The problem? Commercial versions are overpackaged and full of sugar, and the tab for keeping my college-age runner supplied with brand-name individually wrapped energy bars would rival his tuition. I actually found it pretty easy to re-create some of our favorite bars at home, using nothing more than a food processor.
Tasty enough to challenge the likes of Clif and Larabars, these energy bar recipes can be whipped up in practically no time for a fraction of the price. Raw Lemon-Coconut Bars These tasty bars are similar to Lärabars, but contain no added sweetener and are gluten free. Directions: If using chopped dates, cover them with warm water, let them soak for about 5 minutes, and drain. Makes 12 bars. Makes 12 bars. Strawberry Oatmeal Jam Bars and the Carlsbad Flower Fields. Ahhh, Spring. Everything seems to wake up this time of year.
Butterflies flit about freshly planted gardens, early birds try to one up each other while catching that poor worm, and Mother Nature's bounty stretches its leaves skyward while bringing the brilliance of color back into our lives. Carlsbad, California provides its own color show at the Flower Fields at Carlsbad Ranch. Devoting 50 acres to the cultivation of the Tecolote® Giant Ranunculus, springtime brings ribbons of spectacular colors stretching behind the Carlsbad Outlet Mall just off of I-5. From mid-March through early May the beautiful Ranunculus transform the otherwise dry coastal hills into fields of coordinated color. A working farm, the flowers themselves are harvested for market, while the plants work to produce additional bulbs which will also be harvested and some replanted.
Rumor has it from some of my native Carlsbad friends, that the fields used to be just that, fields, not an attraction. Preheat oven to 350º. Homemade energy bars: cheap, delicious, and surprisingly easy! Whole Grain Cranberry-Oatmeal Bars. Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa. In other words.... my bad, my bad, my really-bad bad. You see, these cranberry-oatmeal bars were slated to be treats for hubby's co-irkers today but instead they were mea gulpa'd, mea gulpa'd, mea maxima gulpa'd. I baked them. I gulped them down. And so did hubby (Et tu Brute?) Yes, we're both to blame. The house was devoid of sweet treats and as these bars rested on the counter, bits and pieces of them kept coming up missing and suddenly there were none left to send to work. I need flogged. I'm now going to go say three Our Father's and six Hail Mary's and run twenty miles as my penance.
Whole Grain Cranberry-Oatmeal Bars (adapted from Cooking Light) Crust:4.5 ounces spelt flour (about one cup)1 cup quick cooking oats1/2 cup packed brown sugar1/4 tsp salt1/4 tsp baking soda1/4 tsp cinnamon6 TBSP unsalted butter, melted3 TBSP orange juice Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Bake for 40 minutes or until edges are golden. Granola bars « MidwestVeg.com. I’ve been in search of the perfect granola bar recipe for quite some time now. Sure, granola bar recipes are easy to come by, but most contain far too much oil, butter, sugar and other stuff that I’m just not interested in. The few that I found that didn’t contain these ingredients tasted awful. I can’t even begin to tell you how upset I’d be after going through so much trouble (and supplies) just to end up with a dud. But I never gave up. I kept looking and trying and experimenting because I knew eventually I’d end up with a granola bar that was perfect in my eyes. Today was that day! Last night I came across this recipe .
Ingredients 2 cups oats (I used Bob’s Red Mill GF Rolled Oats) 1 cup almonds, toasted 1 1/2 cups dried fruit (I used cranberries) 1 cup shredded coconut, unsweetened 3/4 cup brown rice cereal (I used Erewhon Crispy Brown Rice) 1/4 cup flax meal 1 tsp vanilla extract 1/2 tsp almond extract 1/4 tsp sea salt 1/3 cup agave nectar 1/3 cup almond butter Directions.