{"id":7540,"date":"2010-02-08T12:28:40","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T17:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nomeatathlete.com\/?p=7540"},"modified":"2021-02-11T14:15:51","modified_gmt":"2021-02-11T19:15:51","slug":"chia-energy-bars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nomeatathlete.com\/chia-energy-bars\/","title":{"rendered":"Chia energy bars"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chia seeds are all over the health blogosphere these days, so much so that I was beginning to think they were a fad superfood.  But then Brendan Brazier included them in Thrive Fitness<\/em><\/a>, and with all the research he does for his books and career, I tend to trust ol’ B-squared when it comes to nutrition.<\/p>\n

The problem, for me, is that chia gels in liquid.  I’ve tried it in chia fresca, or iskiate<\/a>, and then in some Thrive Fitness <\/em>sports drinks.  And it’s fine; I can tolerate it, but I just don’t really enjoy drinking those little globs of chia snot.  So I was really excited to find that Thrive Fitness<\/em> includes some energy bar recipes with chia, and Erin and I tried one out yesterday while we were snowed in.  (You’ll see that the recipe calls for salba<\/em>, which is white chia<\/a>\"\", the heirloom variety of chia seed that Brendan recommends.)<\/p>\n

The ingredients are white chia, sunflower seeds, raw cacao (substituted for carob powder), dates, toasted buckwheat flour (substituted for soaked or sprouted buckwheat, so mine isn’t quite raw), ground flaxseed, and hemp protein powder in the middle. (By the way, you can get all of this stuff at iHerb.com and get five dollars off your first purchase if you use my coupon code, RAZ652.)<\/p>\n

Here’s the recipe.<\/p>\n

Carob Strawberry Chia Energy Bar<\/h2>\n

(from Thrive Fitness<\/em>, reprinted with permission)<\/h3>\n
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