Make your own healthy protein snack bars for early morning energy or any other time of day — a lot healthier and more nutritious than the store-bought alternatives!
Each one of these delicious snack bars is loaded with 6 grams of protein, along with chocolate and peanut butter. A couple of tips to start with: get some oat flour at the grocery story if you don’t want to bother with the food processor. And vegans can substitute maple syrup for honey, and replace the whey protein powder with a plant-based variety.
Here are the ingredients you’ll need to make a dozen of these protein snack bars:
1 cup old-fashioned rolled oats: put in a food processor and pulse until oats are a flour consistency
1/2 cup quick oats
3 scoops chocolate whey protein powder
1/2 cup organic brown rice crisps cereal: mix with the oat flour, quick oats, protein powder and cereal
1/4 cup honey
1/3 cup peanut butter: melt with the honey and vanilla extract, then pour over the oats and stir
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1-2 tablespoon non-dairy chocolate chips: melt in the microwave
Press the oat mixture into a greased loaf pan, then drizzle the melted chocolate over the top. Now let this cool in the fridge for at least 30 minutes before slicing it up into convenient, yummy snack bars.
124 calories per serving
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Source: Emily Miller