Jenny1
03-30-2011, 03:48 AM
My husband has been overdoing the bananas - up to 20 a day (though he denies it was quite that many) and I have been told that his potassium levels were likely too high so I needed a substitute - something filling that he could take to golf with him.
I made up my own breakfast bars - quick and easy to make, very nutricious and filling. Even our cat loves them.
Ingredients:
2/3 cup each of sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, sesame seeds, cashew nuts - soaked for a few hours or overnight
1 cup flaxseeds - grind to meal in Vitamix.
2 cups raisins, soaked in 1 cup water plus juice of 1 small (or 1/2 large) lemon
1 teaspoon each of powered ginger and cinnamon
2 teaspoons carob powder
2 tablespoons raw honey (or more to taste)
Method:
Combine everything (including lemon raisin water) except flaxseed in food processor. You might need to do it in 2 batches if your food processor is too small.
Mix with flaxseed. If mixture seems too dry add a little water.
Spread out on dehydrator sheets - press down and cut into bars - dehydrate about 6 hours, turn over, dehydrate another 8. Comes out nice and chewy - you can of course dry them more.
That took far longer to write down than to make! I find the above batch lasts 2 of us just over a week - including the extras taken to golf. I have 2 bars and a small bunch of grapes (here in the southern hemisphere its almost end of our grape season) for breakfast - does me beautifully till my lunchtime green smoothie.
I made up my own breakfast bars - quick and easy to make, very nutricious and filling. Even our cat loves them.
Ingredients:
2/3 cup each of sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, sesame seeds, cashew nuts - soaked for a few hours or overnight
1 cup flaxseeds - grind to meal in Vitamix.
2 cups raisins, soaked in 1 cup water plus juice of 1 small (or 1/2 large) lemon
1 teaspoon each of powered ginger and cinnamon
2 teaspoons carob powder
2 tablespoons raw honey (or more to taste)
Method:
Combine everything (including lemon raisin water) except flaxseed in food processor. You might need to do it in 2 batches if your food processor is too small.
Mix with flaxseed. If mixture seems too dry add a little water.
Spread out on dehydrator sheets - press down and cut into bars - dehydrate about 6 hours, turn over, dehydrate another 8. Comes out nice and chewy - you can of course dry them more.
That took far longer to write down than to make! I find the above batch lasts 2 of us just over a week - including the extras taken to golf. I have 2 bars and a small bunch of grapes (here in the southern hemisphere its almost end of our grape season) for breakfast - does me beautifully till my lunchtime green smoothie.