Looking for no-bake protein bar

[Guest guest]

Hi. I'm looking for a /no-bake/ protein bar. Ingredients are commonly

peanut butter, honey, protein powder, oatmeal, etc. Any variation on

ingredients is great, the main thing I'm really interested in is the

" no-bake " feature.

 

Thanks in advance.

Linda and the zoo.

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Heh heh heh...you asked, here are some.

 

Peanut Butter Protein Bars: (No sugar, honey, other sweetener, uses Splenda)

Not my favorite, too too too much fat

1/4 cup butter (no substitutions)

1/2 cup natural peanut butter, chunky

1 and 3/4 cups protein powder, vanilla or chocolate

4 onuces of cream cheese, softened

1 TBSP vanilla

10-12 packs of Splenda (to taste)

1/2 cup chopped peanuts

 

Melt the butter in the microwave and add the PB and oftened cream cheese to

it. Mix together with a fork in a bowl. Then add the protein powder, vanilla,

Splenda, and chopped peanuts; stir well, expect it to be very crumbly.

 

Taste to see if sweet enough...if not add more Splenda

 

Press mixture firmly into 8X8 pan. Slice into 12 pieces and put whole pan in the

freezer. Remove when the bars are firm, cut bars and put into individual plastic

bags, foil, or waxed paper, then return to freezer for storage.

 

Nutritional info for each bar...approx 9 carbs and 1 gram of fiber, for a

total of 8 net carbs and 31 grams of protein each. This comes from, buy " 500

Low-Carb Recipes " .

 

 

Plain Jeanne Protein Bars

1 cup Natural peanut butter

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 rest and

mix together (easiest to use your 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 or freezer. (I really do like them frozen)

 

Peanut Butter Protein Bars

Low Carb Recipe Ingredients:

2 tablespoons no-sugar peanut butter

2 tablespoons butter, melted

1/2 teaspoon liquid artificial sweetener (why the two kinds of artificial

sweetener, I don't have a clue)

1/4 cup Splenda

One scoop (1/3-cup) vanilla whey protein powder

 

Directions:

Melt peanut butter and butter in microwave or double boiler. Mix in the

sweeteners thoroughly. Add protein powder and stir until it forms a ball. (Use

your hands or be prepared to bend or break a spoon.)

 

Roll up in ball and knead a bit; then separate into even portions, shaping as

desired.

 

Refrigerate until firm.

 

Recipe makes four bars; about 2 carbohydrates per bar.

 

The following are Atkins type, though do not use Atkins protein powder. A big

YES on DaVinci's sugar free syrups though. I have many of them and love most.

(The lime was very disappointing and the chai....well, I don't like chai.)

Homemade Atkins-Type Protein Bars Recipes

NOTES:

 

A " scoop " of protein powder is generally 1/3 cup

Feel free to substitute other artificial sweeteners for those cited,

especially in those protein bars that are not baked.

Protein powders are pretty much interchangeable. Keep in mind, though, that

carb & protein counts vary by brand and flavor, so your end result may differ

from the original recipe.

CHOCOLATE-NUT PROTEIN BARS

1 square unsweetened baker's chocolate

2 Tbl butter

2 Tbl heavy cream

3 pkts Splenda

3 scoops (1 cup) Chocolate whey protein 1 cup chopped nuts of choice

1/2 cup unsweetened coconut

2 Tbl liquid, any of the following, listed in order of preference:

Sugar Free Syrup (Davinci, Torani), maple syrup, coffee, water

Melt chocolate and butter in micro 1 min; stir until completely melted. Add

Equal and heavy cream and stir until creamy. Add protein powder, peanuts,

coconut and stir till mixed pretty well.

Add liquid of choice and mix thoroughly. You may have to knead with your hands

at this point, as mixture will be very stiff. Line a bread loaf pan with plastic

wrap and press in mixture firmly and evenly. Chill till firm. Cut into bars.

(This recipe should yield 6-8 bars. Approx 5 carbs & /15 grams protein per 1/6

recipe.

HOMEMADE CHOCOLATE FUDGE PROTEIN BAR RECIPE

7 scoops (2 1/3 cups) Chocolate Whey Protein 1/2 cup melted butter

4 oz cream cheese (8 protein;4 carbs)

1/2 cup walnuts (10 protein; 5 carbs)

 

Melt butter & cream cheese in microwave and stir until smooth. Mix in protein

powder. Stir until mixed. This will be very thick and hard to stir. Add chopped

walnuts and mix. Put in a greased bread pan. Chill. Cut into 8 pieces. When

firm, you can wrap each piece in plastic wrap and store in fridge. Yield: 8

generous bars. Protein per bar: 17.5 Carbs per bar: 2.43

These come out chewy and look like fudge. They don't taste as good as sugar

fudge, but the taste is still good. Much cheaper to make than buying Atkins.

VANILLA PRALINE PROTEIN BARS

4 oz cream cheese

1/2 cup butter

1/4 cup sugar-free peanut butter

1/4 cup SF vanilla syrup

1 tsp vanilla extract

1/2 tsp coconut extract

1 cup chopped nuts (optional)

2 cups Optimum Nutrition protein powder (vanilla ice cream flavor)

2 cups Designer Protein powder

(vanilla praline flavor)

Melt together in microwave: cream cheese, butter, PB. Add syrup, extracts and

nuts to cream cheese mixture and mix well. Stir or knead in the protein powders.

At this point the mixture becomes quite sticky and difficult to mix thoroughly.

Press with your hands into a greased 9x13 " baking pan, cover with plastic wrap

and keep in the fridge. Yield: 20 bars Carb counts: Without nuts: 48 total

(16 from fiber)=2.4/bar

With nuts: 60 total (28 from fiber)= 3/bar

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Guest guest]

Whoa... Cool. Thanks tons. :-) Just what I was looking for.

 

Linda and the zoo.

[Guest guest]

You are welcome. Just remember the Energy Bar is very very high in calories and

carbohydrates and the protein available is low, despite it looking like it would

be good for protein. The others all give about 31 grams protein per bar (soy

protein powder works fine, if you don't like/don't do whey), but several have

artificial sweeteners. Sooo....YMMV. (your milage may vary) Jeanne in Georgia

 

zoo-groups <zoo.groups wrote: Whoa... Cool. Thanks

tons. :-) Just what I was looking for.

 

Linda and the zoo.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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