Recipe: Protein Bars

I'll admit that I've never bought a protein bar...or any other kind of health food bar. Clif, Quest, Luna, Lara, Kind -- I haven't been able to bring myself to shill out the money. I do eat my share of protein bars; however they are all ones that I mix up myself. I packed along eight of these when I travelled around for CaRMS interviews and was happy that they held up well unrefrigerated.










Protein Bar
Makes one bar.

• 1 tbsp (15 g) peanut butter
• 1 scoop (44 g) Six Star whey protein powder (30 g protein!)
• 2 tbsp oats (ground with spice-grinder or blender into flour)
• 1.5 tbsp water (adjust as appropriate)

Stir together the ingredients in a bowl. Scoop the lump of dough out onto plastic wrap and mould it into bar form. Refrigerate it to further solidify.

Using Adam's peanut butter (100 Cal per tbsp): 315 Cal, 20 g carb, 11 g fat, 35 g protein, 2 g fibre, 3 g sugar

chocolate

cookies & cream 

strawberry

Sometimes I cut the bars up into bite-sized pieces.

vanilla

chocolate

I've also made Chocolate-Vanilla Swirl Protein Bites by preparing two batches of the above dough, one batch with chocolate protein powder and the other with vanilla protein powder, taking a bit of each kind of dough, and rolling it into balls. This made 12 balls.

Per 1/12th: 53 Cal, 5.8 g protein

I'm not sure how well these resemble commercial protein bars; the whey protein taste is prominent (as expected) and the texture is a bit gummy, but overall I think they taste all right!

Do you buy protein powder? If so, what is your favourite way to use it?