Make-Your-Own Snack Bars
February 21, 2008
I came across You Bars three times today: in the New York Times, on Serious Eats, and even from my mom in an e-mail. You Bars are a cool concept: choose your own ingredients to adjust the protein, fiber, sugar, and other flavors. You can name your creation, too. They’ll make them, wrap them, and ship them to you. I don’t have any need for a product like this, but seeing them mentioned all over the place reminded me I wanted to look for a healthy snack bar recipe for the kids. Something they would see as a treat, but that was good for them.
I’d recently bought Entenmann’s Chocolate Chip Multi Grain Cereal Bars for the boys — I guess I had an “ooooh! multi grain!” moment in the store and decided to ignore the fact that these are really cookies with a smidge of fiber. They’re apparently delicious, though — even J. likes them — so can I find a recipe that is gobbled up just as readily?
Here is some of my inspiration, I hope to try out a version this weekend:
- Lara-type bars, from bunnyfoot. The texture looks right, maybe if I just added some mini chocolate chips.
- Make your own granola bars, from Mommy Poppins.
- Make your own protein bars, from Sizeable Apple.
- Alton Brown’s Good Eats episode, “Power Trip,” has three bar recipes.
- Another granola bar, from The Kitchen Sink. The photos are very enticing, but I’d need to use much small chunks of nuts and such for my guys.
Have you made any protein- or energy- or cereal- or granola- or snack-type bars that are kid-friendly? Let me know.
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I'm Dara, the Chick in the Kitchen. Living in the suburbs of Manhattan with my two boys, ages 5 and 7, and husband. Trying to feed my family something more diverse than a different shape of pasta each night. Read more 
5 Comments
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anna | February 21, 2008 at 6:44 pm
dara, i love food blogs and I am so excited to find yours. I will try out a granola bar recipe this weekend and report back.
Anna
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Cristen | February 22, 2008 at 9:57 am
Enteminis are so misleading. I was looking at one the other day like “Oh it’s so small” and thinking it could not be too caloric. Yeah, wrong.
I’ve actually always wanted to make my own granola bars so I may give these a spin. I try to keep what I eat in the “whole foods” category – ie not too processed.
3. Blueberry-Chocolate Chip &hellip | February 24, 2008 at 11:23 am
[...] wrote earlier in the week about my intent to create my own granola bars. They were a mixed success: A. loved eating one for a snack. G., on the other hand, took a bite, [...]
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Jodi | February 25, 2008 at 5:28 pm
You know I love the You Bar idea!! I miss the many homemade granola bars that were all over the place in Vancouver…so many little bakeries or coffee shops or little restaurants that had their own version. I sometimes buy one at Starbucks…though I don’t think it is very healthy really.
5. chickinthekitchen.com &ra&hellip | March 2, 2008 at 10:42 am
[...] wrote earlier in the week about my intent to create my own granola bars. They were a mixed success: A. loved eating one for a snack. G., on the other hand, took a bite, [...]
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