Enter your email & we’ll send it to your inbox. Plus, get great new recipes from us every week! By submitting this form, you consent to receive emails from Hurry the Food Up. These raw energy bars are just one answer of many. Take a typical energy bar, even a raw one. This is an organic date-orange bar I found on my lunch break at the local organic store. Look at all those ingredients. That can’t be right, right? Along with the usual suspects, you’ve got corn syrup, rice syrup, salt, sugar, potato starch, palm oil, palm fat and inverted sugar syrup. All you really need to make energy bars is good, whole ingredients. Check out this list instead:
Raw Energy Bars – Ingredients
Dates Figs Almonds Hazelnuts Oatmeal Sesame seeds Maple/agave syrup
How much better does that look? The only slightly naughty ingredient there is the maple/agave syrup – however this convincingly strong argument from Anthony Warner, in his book The Angry Chef, is why we feel a small amount of sugar now and then is not the end of the world. With small amount being key!
Homemade Raw Energy Bars – when do we want them?
Now! There are many reasons why raw energy bars rock – not only are they far superior to your average chocolate bar (this in-depth article basically shows through research that nuts are the bee’s knees). They’re also a great energy boost (obviously) before any workout or run, or even if you’re just feeling tired. Never underestimate their ability to take the edge of a sugar-craving either. We’ve all been there. We fancy something sugary: we open a pack of sweets or chocolate, and before we know it, the entire lot is gone. These raw energy bars get pretty filling pretty quickly (probably because of the nuts and their fiber), but even if you do scoff a few too many you don’t need to feel particularly bad about it. So, the next time you need a quick pick-me-up for any reason – reach for your homemade raw energy bars. You know exactly what’s in them.
