No Bake Protein Bars

Ok, sometimes you're in a hurry. Maybe it's a busy day and you're just stopping home for a quick bite, or maybe you hit the snooze button too many times this morning. We all need some sort of back-up, quick-to-grab meal for those kinds of days. Otherwise, we might resort to something terrible (like a bagel; bagels will steal your soul).

This recipe is super easy, and you can leave the bars in the fridge or freezer for days!

What you'll need:

• 1 1/2 cup of oats
• 1 1/2 cup of protein powder (flavour of your choice)
• 1/4 cup of Almonds (or any nut!)
• 1/4 cup of dried cranberries (try some different dried fruit if you like)
• 1/2 tbsp of cinnamon 
• 2 tbsp of peanut butter (I used cashew butter; so many nut flavours!)
• 1/4 cup of honey (or agave nectar)
• 1/3 cup of almond milk (or soy, but almond is a little lower carb)
• 1/4 cup of unsweetened apple sauce
• 1 tsp of vanilla

Looks Like a lot eh? At least you probably have most of this stuff at home already!

Now, to build the bars:

Mix together all of the dry ingredients (the first 5 in the list). Now mix in the rest of the ingredients (the wet stuff). The peanut butter will be hard to stir into the liquid mixture, so once all of the liquids are in the same bowl, toss it in the microwave for 30 seconds on high to soften it up. Everything should mix together just fine then!

Now, pour the wet ingredients over the dry and mix! 

Now here comes the tricky part. Take your mixture and pour it into a pan lined with wax paper. Not, aluminium foil or parchment paper. WAX. These things will stick to just about anything but wax paper. So once you've spread the mixture in the pan, toss it in the fridge or freezer for a few hours (I like mine frozen! But, then again, I also like my cranberries and almonds frozen too...).

Once the pan of goodies is hardened, you can then cut it into bars. I cut mine into 6 bars. Which (if you followed my recipe pretty close) should yield about 300 calorie bars, with 20g of protein.

Don't judge a book by its cover...

Enjoy!

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