Make Your Own Healthy CLIF Bars Growing up, one of my favorite packaged “health” foods was CLIF bars. They are chewy, great-tasting and included many organic food products- or so I thought. 

Not as ‘clean’ as I thought…

However, they are NOT clean and include many hidden GMOs such as soy protein isolate and soy lecithin. So, I took the initiative to try to create my own recipe since I need a fiber-filled snack at hand at all times while nursing my newborn daughter.

I am still working on perfecting this recipe, (and finding a substitute for the soy rice crisps) but for now they were made with dates, oats, coconut, almonds, ground flax seeds, peanut butter and maple syrup. They tasted very much like the CLIF bars I have been craving but without any of the additives and GMOs!

I hope you will enjoy these too.

Chantal’s Healthy CLIF Bars

Ingredients:

1 cup pitted dates
1 cup uncooked oats (gluten free if you need it)
3 Tbsp grounded flax seeds
½ cup unsweetened shredded coconut
¼ cup almonds
¼ cup maple syrup Grade B
2 Tbsp coconut palm sugar
1/3 cup natural peanut butter
1 tsp vanilla extract
½ chocolate chips (optional)

Instructions:

  1. In a food processor, blend oats and almonds until grounded. Then add coconut, flaxseed and dates and pulse until well blended.
  2. In a small saucepan over medium heat, heat maple syrup and coconut sugar until melted and boiling point. Quickly reduce heat and add peanut butter and vanilla and blend until thoroughly mixed.
  3. In a large bowl, add the oats mixture. Add wet mix to oats mixture and blend. Once cooled, carefully add chocolate chips and mix with hands.
  4. In between two parchment papers, flatten with a rolling pin and cut into squares. Wrap into waxed parchment paper.

Keep in your fridge and try not to eat them all!

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Photo by: Chantal Jura