Yesterday I wrote about how I'd gone to the effort of making homemade peanut butter in order to then deliver some low cost protein bars for the husband and I. Wish I'd not bothered.
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| Budget sludge on the left, yummy expensiveness on the right |
Despite the oatmeal and homemade peanut butter, the bars are sadly ruined by the taste of aspartame from the addition of chocolate whey protein powder. It's really all you can taste. When you make it up as a drink with milk and stick a banana in it, it's pretty palatable. Mixed into a stodgy batter, it's frankly quite disgusting.
On the plus side, they kept me so full up to lunchtime and beyond that I wasn't tempted by any of the free biscuits on offer at my course during breaktimes nor did I really want my lunch (my belly thought I'd eaten a lump of putty). It did save me from snorfing the bag of crisps, flapjack and orange juice accompanying the free sandwich, that pushed the lunch well beyond the 1,000 cal limit.
I seriously need to revisit the healthy, protein packed breakfast issue during the course of my new blog. There has to be something I can eat easily at work that will keep me full til lunch and isn't messy. Answers on a postcard please.
If you're interested, this is the recipe I used. Word of warning, trying to clean up afterwards is akin to trying to scrape dried concrete out of a cement mixer. You won't go far wrong with a hammer and chisel. Goodness knows what it's done to my innards!
MagicPunt's MRBs (Meal Replacement Bars):
Combine in large mixing bowl:
3 Cups Oatmeal
1/2 Cup Natural Peanut butter
1 cup Skim Milk
4 Scoops Protein Powder
dash of cinnamon
Mix until a sticky batter is formed (may take a few minutes)
use a large spoon to spread out the mix into the bottom of a Pam-sprayed glass or metal cooking tray (spread until even)
put in the fridge overnight and cut into 8 equal bars that yield:
11g fat (good monounsaturated fats)
26g carbs
21g protein
285 calories
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