Cereals to calm your hunger, nuts to give you energy, honey to give you a sweet treat… How about a cereal bar to take a tasty break and recharge your batteries? Nutritious but light, full of fiber, so small that you can always carry them with you, the cereal bars They are the perfect snack if you are on a diet, ideal as a mid-morning snack, as a snack or after sports.
In fact, ManzanaRoja gives you 3 recipes for you to prepare your own cereal bars at home, much healthier, lighter and healthier than those you find in the supermarket because you choose the ingredients and combine them in your kitchen, at home, avoiding, for example, vegetable oils that increase calories.
The result? 3 bars of no more than 150 calories eachbased on oat flakes, corn flakes and puffed rice with many nuts to snack on and a touch of dark chocolate, with which you can treat yourself as an alternative to one of your snacks or as a tasty snack.
How to make homemade bars
Oatmeal, whole and non-whole corn flakes, puffed rice: all of them are ideal cereals to prepare homemade energy-rich, tasty and diet bars.
If you wish, you can also add nuts, such as walnuts, hazelnuts or almonds as they provide “good” fats. – 80% monounsaturated and 6% polyunsaturated – which reduce the risk of cardiovascular diseases and lower bad cholesterol in the blood. However, this choice should be an alternative that should not be taken more than three times a weektaking into account the caloric contribution of nuts.
Within a balanced diet, snacks should represent about 10% of total daily calories. Therefore, respecting this indication, we must always favor foods rich in essential nutrients for the body and with good satiating power, which are at the same time low in fat and simple sugars.
Homemade bars: the recipes
Oatmeal, coconut and blueberry bars
Ingredients for 8 bars
- 70 g oat flakes
- 30 g of whole almonds
- 30 g shelled walnuts
- 10 g pumpkin seeds
- 30 g coconut flakes
- 20 g dried cranberries
- 10 g of raisins
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 40ml maple syrup
- 30g honey
- 15g brown sugar
Discover here how to prepare oatmeal bars with coconut and blueberries.
Cornflake bars with trail mix
Ingredients for 10 bars
- 70g corn flakes
- 40 g mixed nuts
- 20 g of salted pistachios
- 20 g dried apricots
- 40 g maple syrup
- 30g honey
- 15g brown sugar
Discover here how to prepare cornflake bars with nuts.
Puffed rice, hazelnut and chocolate bars
Ingredients for 8 bars
- 80 g of puffed rice
- 40g hazelnuts
- 20 g chopped hazelnuts
- 30g chocolate chips or chopped chocolate
- 60 g of rice syrup
- 30g honey
- 15g brown sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
Discover here how to prepare puffed rice bars.
