Free2beme, this is a great question. But I also want an energy bar to have enough in it that it sticks with me for a while. The bars that are just cereal, some sweetener and about 100 calories don't last for me at all. Half an hour or an hour later, I'm ravenous.
You might try looking at the labels of Clif Bars. You'll go up in calories for a bar, but you'll also go up in fiber, organic ingredients and (in my opinion) in how long it stays with which also means less of a blood-sugar spike).
I have one here and there is 250 calories, 5g fiber (which is 20% of the total), 0g trans fat and 1.5 g saturated fat from a total fat of 5 g. I have scoured the ingredients and the only fat seems to come from the almonds and some cocoa butter. 70% of the ingredients are organic. The sweeteners involved are organic brown rice syrup and organic evaporated cane juice. It's just more substantial when you're subbing it out for an entire meal, I think. (Added bonus: Lots of flavors, so it's not hard to find one or two that become favorites.)
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Free2beme, this is a great question. But I also want an energy bar to have enough in it that it sticks with me for a while. The bars that are just cereal, some sweetener and about 100 calories don't last for me at all. Half an hour or an hour later, I'm ravenous.
You might try looking at the labels of Clif Bars. You'll go up in calories for a bar, but you'll also go up in fiber, organic ingredients and (in my opinion) in how long it stays with which also means less of a blood-sugar spike).
I have one here and there is 250 calories, 5g fiber (which is 20% of the total), 0g trans fat and 1.5 g saturated fat from a total fat of 5 g. I have scoured the ingredients and the only fat seems to come from the almonds and some cocoa butter. 70% of the ingredients are organic. The sweeteners involved are organic brown rice syrup and organic evaporated cane juice. It's just more substantial when you're subbing it out for an entire meal, I think. (Added bonus: Lots of flavors, so it's not hard to find one or two that become favorites.)
February 13, 2009 - 10:01amThis Comment
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