Delicious/Nutritious: Healthy vegetarian recipes: November 2008

Homemade Chocolate Coconut Almond Oat Lara bar

(It sort of looks like poop on a plate, sorry!)

One bar is 3 Weight Watcher's points. Below is the Nutrition Facts label.

My sister mentioned the other day that she wanted to find out how to make Larabars at home. I did a quick Google search today and found this blog: http://bunnyfoot.blogspot.com/2006/02/homemade-lara-type-bars.html

So, taking bunnyfoot's formula, I created my own combination. My Lara Bar is an almond, oat, coconut, chocolate mix. All raw ingredients (is cocoa powder raw?)! These were so easy to make!! I think I'm going to call these Home Bars.

Here's how I did it. I made 7 bars from the ingredients below:

Ingredients

7 dried date, pitted
35 raw almonds
7 Tablespoons rolled oats
7 Tablespoons shredded coconut
3 and 1/2 teaspoons powdered unsweetened cocoa

Directions

Place all ingredients in food processor and process until all ingredients start to form a sort of dough. This doesn't take long at all.
Roll the dough into a ball and begin to shape into a flat disk.
Place into Ziploc bag and form into a rectangle with a uniform thickness.
Place in refrigerator for a couple of hours.
Cut into 7 bars.

There's nothing magical about the number 7; that's just all the dates I had left and I figured one date per bar. The bunnyfoot recipe called for 1 Tablespoon pureed dates and 3 Tablespoons of dried ingredients. One pureed date is about equal to 1 Tablespoon.

Each Home Bar cost about $0.52. What do Lara bars cost at the store? At least a dollar each?

I use a KitchenAid food processor and I didn't have to puree the date before adding the dry ingredients. Here are pics... taken with my awesome new G1 phone from T-mobile!!