How to make protein bars at home

Modern athletes carefully monitor their nutrition, carefully plan their diet. However, nevertheless, they also need a snack. Then protein bars come to the rescue . At home, they are easy to cook. There are many recipes that are very simple, and the final product is healthier, tastier and cheaper than from the store, because there are no preservatives or colorings in your products. Another advantage: the composition of each serving can be slightly changed to your liking. However, one must remember that the product must be stored in the refrigerator, otherwise it will quickly deteriorate.

Protein bars at home. Recipe number 1

Composition:

• 2 tbsp. Hercules
• 5 tablespoons of protein powder (you can buy it at a sports nutrition store);
• 0.5 tbsp. peanut butter ;
• some milk or water to make the mixture look like dough.

Cooking:

1. Pour all the ingredients into a cup.
2. Stir until smooth. The consistency is obtained as a very thick test.
3. Form bars from the resulting mixture.
4. Put them in the refrigerator for 50 minutes until solidified.

Recipe number 2. Walnut

Protein bars at home, prepared according to this recipe, will be quite nutritious: about 300 kcal per piece. At the same time, they will be fortified. It is better to take a mixture of nuts, so you get a more diverse composition.

Composition:

• 0.5 tbsp. Hercules and wheat flour. Instead of the latter, you can take oat bran - they will be more useful.
• 10 tablespoons of protein powder, it is better to pour with a slide, then the protein content will increase;
• 4 tsp cocoa;
• 1 tbsp. milk powder, it is best to use a low fat product. This recommendation is not accidental. This will significantly reduce the amount of fat in the bars.
• 2 tablespoons of flax seeds;
• 2 tablespoons of peeled sunflower seeds;
• 1/4 Art. nuts to taste: hazelnuts, walnuts, almonds, you can take the mixture;
• 1/4 Art. dried fruits;
• 1/3 Art. peanut butter;
• some vanillin;
• water, about 0.5 tbsp.

Cooking:

1. In a bowl, mix all the ingredients.
2. The consistency of the mixture will resemble a thick dough. It can be poured into molds or put into something flat, so that later it is convenient to cut.
3. In an hour, the mass freezes, it can be divided into parts.

Recipe number 3. Coconut bars

How to make protein bars at home so that they are not only healthy, but also tasty? Below is a recipe for how to get a candy that looks a bit like a Bounty.

Composition:

• 1 spoon of protein powder;
• 2 tablespoons of coconut manna or oil;
• 1 spoon of honey;
• 2 tablespoons of cocoa;
• coconut flakes to sprinkle on a bar.
  

Cooking:

1. Mix cocoa and protein in a cup. If you need more protein, you can increase its amount. It is best to use natural cocoa powder, then the bar will be most useful.
2. Add coconut oil and honey to the mixture.
3. Mix everything until smooth.
4. Form a bar and put it in the refrigerator for 20 minutes.

From the given amount of products, one bar is obtained about 80 g, it contains 380 kcal and 20 g of protein. You can divide it into 2 smaller ones. It’s more convenient to take them with you and snack on them.

Recipe number 4. Protein bars at home without protein

If at hand there is no special protein powder, then you can try to get around the improvised products.

Ingredients:

• peeled seeds;
• milk;
• oat flakes;
• corn flakes ;
• nuts.

Cooking:

1. Mix all the ingredients in a bowl. If you add a little chocolate, the bar will be tastier.
2. Knead the mass until smooth, then put it on plastic wrap on a tray and refrigerate.
3. After solidification, cut into pieces of the desired size.
   

Recipe number 5. Baking

You will need:

• 2 tbsp. Hercules
• 10 tablespoons of protein powder, you need to take with a slide, this will increase the protein content;
• 3 tsp cocoa;
• 200 g of milk powder;
• 200 ml maple syrup;
• 2 raw protein;
• ¼ Art. juice, best freshly squeezed, for example, orange;
• rapeseed oil to lubricate the mold;
• optionally vanillin.

Cooking:

1. Flakes, milk powder and protein are mixed in one bowl.
2. In the second cup, everything else is mixed.
3. The contents of both bowls are poured into a mixer and mixed.
4. The mixture is poured into a baking dish and put in the oven, heated to 160 ^about , for 20-30 minutes.
5. The finished dish is taken out and cut into equal parts - bars.
   

Very tasty are the protein bars at home, which use various excipients, such as banana and blueberries. This increases their nutritional value, increases the content of nutrients.

Recipe number 6. For the lazy

There is a way, how, with little or no effort, to prepare protein bars at home. Carbohydrate-free snacks are especially important for bodybuilders and those who want to lose weight.

Ingredients:

• Low-fat cottage cheese.
• Protein Powder.

Cooking:

1. Knead the cottage cheese and add protein powder to it.
2. Form thick sausages and put in the refrigerator.
3. The bars are ready.

Since they are made from cottage cheese, they have a minimum content of fats and carbohydrates, but the protein content is increased. It is better to eat bars before training, optimally - for 1.5-2 hours, or after it, but not immediately, but after 15-20 minutes.