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Anyone got a good one - can't really find any shop bars that taste like I want to eat them!!
Tried some recipes and decided the date based ones are not for me..
May just stick with bananas.....!!
Bananas are good, have a look at healthbox London for some interesting bits, they do delivery nationwide now too I believe.
Have a google for Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall's honey and peanut butter energy bars. Taste good and can take a pounding from the trail without turning to dust!
You get about 500 calories in 100g of flapjack, which I love anyway so I normally make those.
My simple one is to blend dried fruit of your choice (I use raisins, apricots and cranberries), + cashews or almonds into a thick paste. Roll into balls and then coat in ground almonds. Set in the fridge individually wrapped in film. Basically home made Nak'd bars.
If you want a real kick, then roll the paste on greaseproof paper, lay a line of marzipan and then roll the paste over this before coating. Very nice!
If you what some protein in there then peanuts are about 25% protein, so sticking some of them in has got to help, right?
Thanks for the suggestions - Hugh's ones sound quite tasty so going to try that!!
I've done a variation on a flap jack with condence milk. Same cooking method but ingridence are:
Oats
condenced milk
butter
dried co****
chopped dried apricots (idealy the non coloured ones)
+ option nuts
I like the Team Sky recipe... Pudding rice and cream cheese flavoured with cinnamon. Really easy to eat as they're moist, I make a batch, wrap em in foil and freeze them.
[url= http://pages.rapha.cc/team-sky/rice-cakes-a-recipe ]Link[/url]
[url= https://www.britishcycling.org.uk/knowledge/nutrition/recipes/snack ]british cycling flapjack[/url]
i started out with ninjasocks flapjack recipe and then i just add stuff to suit. Full of ottery goodness.
far too tasty/addictive - i dont make it often as it doesnt last.
i once did a rough calc of the calories contained in the seed, fruit, nut, dark choc topped version. A single batch contained iro 15kkcal, or a weeks worth.
I make these (basically the same principle as monkeyp):
250g of pitted dates
125g cashew nuts
2 tbsp cocoa powder
2 tbsp peanut (or cashew nut) butter
2 tbsp golden syrup
whizz in a blender, press into a greaseproof lined tin, chop into portions and store in the fridge. wrap them in greaseproof to fit in your jersey pocket.
you can add ~60g of oats to bulk them out but they're not as soft if you do.