If you’re heading out for a backpacking or camping trip, whip up a batch of these wonderful protein bars to take along. They are not only nutritious and tasty, but they’re also quite filling. And even better: no baking is required!
On The Trail Protein Bar
- Prep Time: 15 mins
- Cook Time: 15 mins
- Chilling time: 15 mins
- Total Time: 30 mins
- Servings: 6 meal-sized bars or 12 snack-sized bars
- Author: The Healthy Toast
Ingredients
- 1-1/2 cups rolled oats
- 1/2 cup vegan protein powder
- 1/2 cup cashews
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/2 cup natural peanut butter
- 1/4 cup maple syrup
- 1/2 cup + 2 Tbs unsweetened vanilla almond milk
- 1/4 cup dried cranberries (option to substitute other dried berries)
Instructions
- In a food processor, pulse oats into a fine flour, then place in a large mixing bowl.
- Next, place cashews in food processor and pulse into small pieces. Add this mixture to oat flour, then mix in salt and protein powder.
- Stir in maple syrup and natural peanut butter.
- Add in 1/4 cup of almond milk. The mixture should have a consistency of sticky cookie dough batter, so keep adding almond milk 1 Tbs at a time until it reaches the desired consistency.
- Finally, stir in dried cranberries.
- Line an 8×8 baking pan with foil or parchment paper. Press and evenly distribute batter into pan.
- Place pan in the freezer for 15 minutes. Remove from freezer and slice into either six meal-sized bars or 12 snack-sized bars.
- Store bars in the freezer.
Notes
- Nutrition (1/6 of recipe): 335 calories, 14 g fat, 39 g carbohydrate, 5 g fiber, 13 g sugar, 16 g protein
- Nutrition (1/12 of recipe): 167 calories, 7 g fat, 20 g carbohydrate, 3 g fiber, 7 g sugar, 8 g protein
Check the Outdoorsy blog, Never Idle, for more great camping recipes!
