These energy bars from the book “Finish Line Fueling” are seriously so good! My husband has bought every protein bar on the market and choked them down, but this homemade recipe is delicious! It is now the only bar he will eat, lol.

Here’s the recipe right off the bat, so you don’t have to scroll!

Energy Bars:

4 medjool dates

1/4 cup egg white powder

1/4 cup almond flour

1/4 cup quick oats

1/4 t salt

1 T almond butter

1 t vanilla

1/4 t high oleic safflower oil

1 T and 1 t maple syrup

1 t raisins

Use a food processor to blend the dates, egg white powder, almond flour, oats and salt. When this looks kind of like wet sand, add the almond butter, vanilla, oil, and maple syrup. Blend well and add the raisins, pulsing to chop and blend but leave raisin chunks. Using wax paper or a silicone mat, form the mixture into a 8”x2” rectangle and cut into four pieces. Store in refrigerator.

I have been trying to eliminate as much table sugar as I can during the week, and have also stopped eating/drinking anything with artificial sweeteners.

Since the downstairs of my home is under renovations, I wanted a recipe that was no bake and easy to put together. This recipe for Energy Bars from the book “Finish Line Fueling” really hit the spot. Once I tasted them, I knew they would be something I would make every week.

These are really easy to put together if you have a food processor. I would think you could do them in a blender, but sometimes with the narrow bottoms those don’t work as well.

If you eat protein bars regularly, give these a try. They have a really nice taste and are packed with nutrients.

Resources related to the book:

Blog Post: Review of “Finish Line Fueling”

Recipe from the book on the blog: Homemade Sports Drink

YouTube Channel: Recipe- Honey Bites

I like to double the recipe and wrap the bars in wax paper. Some of the variations I’ve done:

-dried cherries instead of raisins

-sunflower seed butter instead of almond butter

-added 2 teaspoons of cocoa powder and a few semi-sweet chocolate chips and peanut butter instead of the almond butter with a handful of peanuts for my husband (a chocolate peanut butter fiend)

The variations change the nutrition, but everything is still relatively good for you (I use natural peanut butter with no sugar and the higher the “chocolate” content in the chips, the lower the sugar). And hey, if a few chips will have you eating these instead of a fully processed, artificially sweetened, commercially made protein bar…its a small price to pay!