I'm so stoked on my renewed lust for fitness and healthy, easy food I ended up making up a raw, vegan protein bar today. It is darn good, if I may say so myself. Full of healthy fats, fibre and protein and easy to make. I kinda just chucked in handfuls of this and that, but here's a recipe with my estimations of the measurements. Pretty sure this would be impossible to screw up, to tell you the truth.
Raw, Vegan Protein Bars
In a food processor, mix together 1 cup of dates and 1 cup of walnuts until they form a thick, smooth-ish paste.
Add:
1/4 cup melted coconut oil
1 Tbsp lemon juice
1/4 cup chia seeds
1 Tbsp ground flax seeds
1 Tbsp psyllium husks
1 scoop VEGA sport protein (vanilla flavour)
generous pinch each of salt and cinnamon
-process until well incorporated into date and walnut base
Now process 1/2 cup of almonds into the mixture until they are broken up into pieces.
Pulse in a 1/4 cup each of:
pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, sesame seeds, hemp seeds, dried cranberries, raisins, chopped dried apricots
dark chocolate chunks would be good too, but I didn't have any...
Press mixture into a baking pan. Doesn't really matter what size. Smaller pan = thicker bars, bigger pan = wider bars. Throw pan in the freezer for about an hour and cut into 8-12 bars, depending on the serving size you prefer. I got 10 out of mine. And ate two right of the bat. Seriously tasty stuff!
Let's hope my health kick gets my bronchs back into top form and I can step up the running regimen. It's a ways away, but this is my first big running goal! Exciting!