Hello folks, lets talk breakfast! I make my own protein bars for breakfast, well actually my mom made up the recipe and I tweaked it. I NEVER use a recipe, my husband hates that I cook to taste, so our stir fry or other meals always turn out a bit different depending on my mood. A few of my friends and my mother in law have asked me for this recipe so Monday I actually measured out everything and did my best to remember the best version. Here is what I came up with.
My mother in law used a similar recipe I gave her and she counted the calories of the bars and they came out to be about 175 calories and 8 grams of protein per bar. I think it all depends on the protein powder you use (I put links at the bottom to two protein powders I use).
Homemade Protein Bars:
Ingredients
Method:
Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees
Cook the quinoa per the instructions on the quinoa box (my first time I didn’t cook it, boy were those bars very fibrous)
Mix together all the dry ingredients (protein powder, oatmeal, raisins, nuts, sunflower seeds, coconut, cinnamon)
Add in the egg whites, milk, melted coconut oil, cooked quinoa, and the optional almond butter
Note the consistence is more like thick cookie batter and than cake batter
Pour into glass baking dish, you’ll have to use a spatula to spread out the batter evenly
Cook for 30 mins
I eat these almost every morning for breakfast, I heat my bars up in the microwave for 30 seconds and eat them with a side of berries. I store mine in the refrigerator, you can also double the recipe and make more to freeze. They freeze well and take about 6 hours to thaw.
Cheers,
Jess
Homemade Protein Bars:
Ingredients
- 2 cups uncooked oatmeal
- 1/2 uncooked quinoa
- 4 scoops of chocolate protein powder
- 1/4 cup raisins
- 1/3 cup sunflower seeds (shelled obviously)
- 2 tbsp of chopped mixed nuts
- 3 egg whites
- 1 cup of non-fat milk or almond milk
- 2 tbs coconut oil (melted)
- 1/3 cup unsweeten dried coconut (or more cause I love coconut)
- 1 tbs cinnamon
- optional:
- 1 tbs almond butter
Method:
Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees
Cook the quinoa per the instructions on the quinoa box (my first time I didn’t cook it, boy were those bars very fibrous)
Mix together all the dry ingredients (protein powder, oatmeal, raisins, nuts, sunflower seeds, coconut, cinnamon)
Add in the egg whites, milk, melted coconut oil, cooked quinoa, and the optional almond butter
Note the consistence is more like thick cookie batter and than cake batter
Pour into glass baking dish, you’ll have to use a spatula to spread out the batter evenly
Cook for 30 mins
I eat these almost every morning for breakfast, I heat my bars up in the microwave for 30 seconds and eat them with a side of berries. I store mine in the refrigerator, you can also double the recipe and make more to freeze. They freeze well and take about 6 hours to thaw.
Cheers,
Jess
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