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Oct 8, 2015
Homemade Energy Bar
You Are What You Eat Not all energy bars are created equal. Although somehow implied, energy bars are not necessarily healthy, depending on what goes into it. Some actually use hydrogenated vegetable oils, saturated sugar, etc. Commercial energy bars are...let's face it - profit driven. It means they use the cheapest ingredients they can get to meet the legal standard and charge it as high as they can while remaining competitive. You can bypass all of that by simply making your own. It's not as hard to make as most people think, and you spend so much less. In my own parlance, "I know what shit goes into my mouth".
Utensils:
- sauce pan
- frying pan
- big mixing bowl
- wooden spatula
- whisk
- shallow tray, about 1/3" deep
Ingredients:
- 1.5 cups of instant oats, Golden Oats Instant
- 1 cup raisins, Sevilla Raisins
- 1 cup of skinless raw peanuts
- 1/4 cup muscovado sugar, Eagle Muscovado
- 1 cup of marshmallows
- 3 tablets of chocolate tablea, Marinella pure tablea
- 1/4 cup Nutella
- 1/4 cup Anchor Butter
- wax paper
Granola Mixture
- 1 kilo instant oats, Golden Oats Instant
- 400g raisins, Sevilla Raisins
- 1 kilo skinless raw peanuts
- 720g cashews, Planters roasted cashews
Butter Mixture
- 1.5 cups muscovado sugar, Eagle Muscovado
- 500g marshmallows
- 10 tablets of chocolate tablea, 60 pieces, Marinella pure tablea
- 400g or 14.1 oz Crumpy Hazelcut Spread, one jar
- 2 blocks Anchor Butter
- 2m wax paper Reynolds, Reynolds = P7/batch
Utilities
- sticker
- container
Preparation:
- heat the oats in the frying pan without oil - for dry roasting. Set aside.
- in the same frying pan (without the oats), dry roast the raw peanuts, mixing frequently until cooked
- in a big bowl, mix together the oats, peanuts and raisins
- in a big cooking wok/pan on very low heat, melt the butter, then add the sugar, add the marshmallows, tablea (crushed preferably for quick melting) and hazelnut spread. Mix together using whisk until well blended and into a pourable consistency - this is the sugar mixture
- add the oat mixture in one-cup increments to the sugar mixture. Mix them together using a wooden spatula. The mixture will harden fast making continued mixing a challenge. Make sure they are all blended well before the mixture becomes too hard to manage
- while still warm, put the blended mixture into a shallow tray (lined up with wax paper) and use a rolling pin (or wine bottle) and roll on the top rim of the tray for a flat consistency
- cover the tray and put in the fridge to harden
- when hard, you can cut it up into bite-size pieces
- you can use peanut butter instead of Nutella to keep cost down. You can also add almonds or other nuts
- when cutting up the big block into little bite-size pieces, use a heated knife - it will cut through the block more easily
Ending Thoughts Energy bars are indispensable - they keep long so you can bring them with you on long travels for snacks to bridge those hunger pangs. Just bring water to wash it down with. For mountain climbing, mountain bike rides or long treks, it's a priceless companion.
--- TheLoneRider
Oct 8, 2015
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