gerard1 said:
Can you post it here so we don't have to bother registering there?
I did find a few on the net, but they are all pretty high in fat and carbs. Would ideally like to have low fat, low carb, high protein.
I do make fruit smoothy shakes which turn out great (own a vitamix blender, they rock!), but don't always have time to make them, so a protein bar would be nice for convenience.
As for not trusting current bars on the market, I've read some pretty nasty reviews about a lot of the bars not actually containing what the claim to. And I'm sure they use the cheapest ingredients they can get their hands on....
Home-made protein bars
1 cup Natural Peanut butter (Pb)
8 tablespoons honey
1+1/4 cups whey protein powder
1 cup of uncooked oatmeal
Mix the Pb and honey in a bowl, microwave on full for 80 secs. Add the other ingredients and mix together (I knead it with my hands) can add raisins/nuts etc to taste. Smooth into 13x9 tray and leave for 20 mins. Cut into 10 to 12 equal bars and wrap and store in fridge!!
Good luck and happy munching.......you'll be back for more!!
285 Cals - 13 Fat - 3 Sat - 3 Poly - 5 Mono - 22 Carbs - 25 Protein (depends on your protein powder)
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WARNING!!! Do not make these on a cut; I swear to god you will eat the entire pan when you do make them, so make sure it's on a bulk or a cheat!!
Protein Bars
1/3 c Chocolate protein powder
1/2 c quick oats
1/4 c dry skim milk powder
2 tbsp cocoa
12 packets sweetener*
1 tbsp low fat cream cheese
1/2 c natural peanut butter(Pb)
1/3 c black brewed coffee
about 1/4 cup skim milk
Mix dry ingredients together. Cream Pb and cream cheese together. Warm in microwave for 45 seconds -Mix in coffee. Stir dry ingredients a bit at a time into wet ingredients. Mixture will be difficult to stir, use a fork and mash it together. It'll get crumbly. Now add milk, a few drops at a time and mix well after each addition. I think I used about 1/4 cup, but not sure. You want a gooey, kind of crumbly texture. Press into pan sprayed with Pam and set in fridge. Makes 8 bars.
***Each bar has: 80.5 calories - 3.9 *Protein - 7 carbs - 4.2 fat
***The above breakdown does not include the protein powder, because everyone uses a different powder, I just broke down the other ingredients. Make sure you add your own protein powder breakdown to the counts to get the true numbers!
*I used Equal, you can use whatever you normally use or none at all if you like, especially if your protein powder is sweet.
Replace the coffee w/ a tbsp of cream diluted w/ water to the required amount.
I used flavored coffee, so you might want to add an extract for flavor...almond or vanilla...
You can also and raisins and/or chopped nuts for variation
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~*Yummy Bars*~
Ingredients
1 cup natural peanut butter
8 tablespoons honey
1-1/4 cups whey protein powder
1 cup of uncooked oatmeal
Mix the peanut butter and honey in a bowl then microwave on full for 80 seconds. Add the rest and mix together.
Smooth into a 10x8 tray and leave for 20 mins.
Cut into 10 equal bars and wrap then store in fridge.
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Chocolate protein cookies (stolen recipe) lol
6 egg whites
1 3/4 cups oatmeal
2 tsp brown "Sugar Twin" (brown Sweet 'n' Low)
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 cup un-sweetened apple sauce
4 scoops chocolate (or vanilla) whey powder
2 dashes cinnamon
1 tsp virgin olive oil
1 tsp maple extract
1/2 cup raisins (optional)
Pre-heat oven to 325, bake for 20 minutes
Makes 1 dozen cookies...each cookie has 14g of protein
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these are all from
www.gymjunkies.com
