Sunday, October 21, 2012

Protein Bar


First, I have to get better with my picture taken skills with food.  OK, now that I got that out of the way.   I decided to try for a homemade protein bar from the Oxygen Sept 2012 Magazine.  It is called the Goji Dark Chocolate Bars. 
I omitted the one step of covering them in Dark Chocolate.
First I picked up the Goji berries from GNC.  Instead of Chocolate Brown Rice protein powder I used Chocolate whey protein powder.  The main reason for that is, I couldn't find the chocolate brown rice protein powder around my area and didn't want to order it online.  I wanted to go ahead and make it.  
They were really sticky after I mixed them, so I took parchment paper and lined a small round flat bowl and put the mix in it and froze it.   I was planning on dipping it in the chocolate, but decided to take a taste after it was frozen and really liked the taste of it, I am sure the chocolate would make it even better, but it does taste awesome without the chocolate covering.   I am defiantly going to make this recipe again and again.   This is the first protein bar recipe that I have made and really enjoyed.  Just as good if not better than the packaged ones that can be full of sugars and processed stuff.    It says it makes two servings and is 299 Calories a serving with 18g protein and 11g sugar.   I am sure the count is somewhat lower because I didn't use the dark chocolate to cover it. Also I just break small piece off of it when I want something sweet and have gotten more than five servings off of it.    A definite keeper in my book.   Tonight I am trying the Mexican Roll up from one of the Biggest Loser Cookbooks.  Picture and review to come later.

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