Power bar or power gel is the way to give yourself a power bust when you need energy during a long run or exercise. There is plenty of these on the market. Not necessarily cheap thou so… if you can’t buy you need to find a way to get these other way (not talking about stealing of course) – DIY.
Being inspired by trial runner TRI Szerpa (polish lad) and his post about how to make your own power bar (http://triszerpa.pl/baton-energetyczny/ – sorry but whole blog is in Polish) I decided to do mine (it was more like creations but still)…
Have read that you don’t need to use over even. All you need is couple of energetic ingredients (minimum three), best when the same amount and that basically it. Use food processor (that failed on me during whole process) to mix everything and at the end put in the freezer to tie everything together. Couldn’t be simpler.
My ingredients:
- peanut butter – to tie everything together,
- dates – same purpose as peanut butter, but remember to take out the stone (that probably killed the food processor),
- dry apricots or peaches (don’t remember now, don’t think that would make huge difference),
- oatmeal,
- almonds,
- currants
- raisins.
Amounts? Easy, try 2 cups of everything (treat raisins, currants and apricots/peaches as one) but peanut butter (is really up to you how much, read how sweet, you would like to have in your bar). Mix everything with food processor, after that put that into the baking tray (put foil first).Make sure that whole mix is evenly spread out and… into freezer (faster than fridge). After 2-3 hours should be ready to bust you energy levels during work out.
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Another try of power bar. This time wasn’t so convincing.
Everything regards ingredients was ok but I think new food processor worked too good (everything was too ‘processed’). Unfortunately there was no ‘glue’ this time in the power bar so it is just crumbling when not frozen. But looks really good and taste great.