Just made some bars, with pics

[josh26]

Hey guys,

I made some bars a while back from a recipe on the protein bars thread. The real difficulty I had with that thread is that without images, you rarely knew what you were making.

I've modded the recipe myself, and I'm really liking how these turned out.

2.5 cups oats
1/2 cup lindseed
1/2 cup bran
6 scoops chocolate whey
1/2 cup honey
1/2 cup smooth light peanut butter

Followed the base recipe of boiling water and honey, then adding peanut butter until dissolved. Mix in a bowl with everything else.
I used 25 minutes in the oven to get them solid.

The end result is very close to an Uncle Toby's museli bar in terms of texture. Definitely able to be put in a bag and taken to work, and eaten without a fork.
Pictures don't do it justice

[Simmo0508]

Yeah i was gonna say, definitely eat them with a fork. They look a bit too gooey to hold using your hands like a normal bar.

Looks good. Well done. I wanna do that **** one day but i don't wanna **** up the recipe and then ruin all my whey powder and ingredients lol I can cook a mean steak but my cooking skills don't go much further than that.

[josh26]

Yeah i was gonna say, definitely eat them with a fork. They look a bit too gooey to hold using your hands like a normal bar.

Looks good. Well done. I wanna do that **** one day but i don't wanna **** up the recipe and then ruin all my whey powder and ingredients lol I can cook a mean steak but my cooking skills don't go much further than that.

Original recipe definitely called for a fork. Was kinda like a melted mars bars. But I changed the "three minutes under broil" to "oven for 25 minutes" and it's definitely a solid bar.
It looks gooey in the pic because some stuck to the foil - but really it's solid.

[x Idealist x]

Add some baking powder to your next batch, that should make them rise up and make them more portable for you. They look delicious either way!

[BecomeLegendary]

God that looks good...

[jwa254]

How'd they taste bro?

[josh26]

Yeah they tasting real good.
It's kinda weird, you can taste the "natural" in them. I eat a commercial bar now and I'm all like "oh, so that's the difference the processing makes".

Thanks idealist, I'll try that.

The idea here being, I'm making a batch of six, that's at least one for every working day. That means a morning feed that doesn't involve hitting a cafe up like I usually do. I recon a few weeks of this will serve me damn well.

[snorkelman]

Have you figured out the macros for those?

How much is a serving?

1/2 cup bran sounds like some fiber!

[josh26]

Nah I haven't figured out the macros just yet. I'll get them worked out and online tommorrow.
Yeah that's some fibre alright, figured you can never get too much.

[SanDantos]

Throwin in an egg or two will tighten them up.

I've made a few batches of bars, then started doin cookies, get a standard scoop and you don't have to worry about cutting, or shaping the bars. It's like a lazier way.

Looks good though man!

[josh26]

I been trying to figure out macros for these for hours.
The difficulties I've had is:
* I couldn't find whey for some reason
* There are no cup measurements for products like peanut butter
* This is the first time I've used fitday and I'm probably not doing it right

So after working out how much tablespoons of peanut butter this equates to, I got the following out of fitday, which is just missing the whey:



Adding in 28g per scoop of protein, I get, in total:
65g fat
366g carbs
216g protein

I break this across six bars, you have have other preferences. More carbs than I'd like, but I made these earlier with less honey and they came out terrible.

So here is the new recipe I followed, based on these experiences:

In a mixing bowl:
2c oats
.5cup lindseed
.5c bran
spoon baking soda
6 scoops chocolate whey

In a saucepan on the stove:
3/4c honey
1/2c peanut butter
1c water

Once it's melted, stir all together.
Preheated oven properly this time, 180C, 20 minutes.

They are cooking now. Pics to come.

[josh26]

Those macros equate to:
fat/prot/carbs
10/33/56

I'd rather take carbs from natural honey than a big mac loaf any day though.

[josh26]

And the pics: