Super Cheap Delicious Protein Bars you NEED to Make at Home

Suggestion for Maple Omega Crunch Review and Recipe

A friend of mine, who just by chance is in the best shape of her life, has completed 6 Ironman Canada and eats like crazy, passed on this protein bar recipe to me.  She eats every few hours and takes time each day to prepare her mini meals.  Her lunch box when she goes to work is an actual cooler, there is so much food in there.  She cracks me right up.  My husband is addicted to these bars.  He eats them all of the time.  They are super tasty and well worth the effort.  Way better than a Cliff bar or any protein bar for that matter.

• 6 cups oatmeal (may need more)
• 5 scoops vanilla protein powder or 1.5 cups (we have used chocolate and equally as good)
• 1/4 cup milled flax seed (we use roasted Maple Omega Crunch
• 1/2 cup coconut
• 1/2 cup natural peanut butter
• 1 cup water
• 1/4 cup SPLENDA Brown Sugar Blend (optional, husband likes better without)

Mix together with your hands.  It is messy but worth it.  Place the mixture on a cookie sheet with parchment paper or spray lightly with oil.  Press down.  Place in freezer for about one hour.  Cut into bars (I get about 20 bars)and put into zip lock bags.  Keep in the freezer until ready to eat. 

Experiment with these bars, you could add any kind of nuts, dried fruit, dark chocolate.  Whatever you like.  But, please do try these.  You will never buy another protein bar again.  There is no hard to pronounce ingredients, no bizarre preservatives. For all the frugal GGS readers, the total costs of raw products works out to about $0.50-$0.60 per bar, so the bars cost less than a 1/5 of what you’d expect to pay in store.

Winning!

Nutritional info per bar

120 kcal
4.5 g FAT
12 g CHO
– 2 g fibre
8 g PRO