Gluten Free Vegan Energy bars

Long day ahead? Make your own energy bars and save on random snack purchases at overpriced grocery stores.

For this recipe, I mixed walnuts, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, flaxseeds, cacao nibs, brown rice protein powder & dates.

These Vegan Gluten-Free Energy bars are perfect on-the-go snacks! Whole food ingredients provide you with lasting stable energy. 

Gluten-Free, Vegan, No-Bake, Refined Sugar-Free.

These easy-to-make Energy Bars are amazing snacks when you know you’ll need some fuel for a long day at work, school or while traveling!

The mix of satisfying fats and protein from nuts & seeds, natural sugars in the dates provides the perfect combination of nutrients to give you energy for your work out session.

It’s a very basic recipe that you can simply modify depending on the ingredients you have in your pantry.

Be creative buy adding hemp, chia seeds, different protein powders, tiger nuts, a variety of nuts such as brazil nuts, almonds, pecans, cashews, macadamia nuts, mixing in different superfood powders and enrobing in chocolate. There are so many ways to play with the ingredients and come up with new flavors.

I personally never stick to an exact recipe and use whatever I have in my kitchen instead. This stimulates my creativity and oftentimes leads me to an unexpectedly great new recipe.

Dates in this recipe act as a natural sweetener. As an alternative, you can use coconut nectar, coconut sugar, monk fruit powder, dry mulberries, Dolcedi (low GI, comes from apples) or raw honey if you allow it in your diet.

I love to keep some of these natural Vegan Gluten-Free Energy Bars on hand for quick snacking or to grab and go for stable energy on the run! You can store them in the fridge for about a week or keep them in the freezer for a longer time.

Gluten Free Vegan Energy bars

by Olga Savel | October 21, 2019

Servings: 7-8 bars

Ingredients:

• 1 cup Activated Walnuts

• 7 Medjool Dates (pitted & soaked in warm water to soften)

• 1/2 cup Activated Sunflower Seeds

• 1/2 cup Activated Pumpkin Seeds
• 1/4 cup Cacao Nibs
• 1 tbsp Brown Rice Protein Powder (or any plant-based protein)
• pinch of sea salt (for balanced flavor)

Instructions:

1. To make activated nuts, read this article. Soaking & dehydrating the nuts in advance is really important for better digestion and better taste overall. It seems very time consuming and challenging, but after your first try you’ll be amazed to taste the difference between activated and simple raw nuts. Give it a shot! If you have no time, it is better to use roasted nuts than raw.
   
   
2. When nuts and seeds are activated and you are all set to make the energy bars, combine all the ingredients together in the food processor, blend for about 5 sec until everything is well combined. Don’t over-blend as you’ll have a very oily mixture. If you feel you still have big chunks of dates and walnuts, pulse several times until you see the mixture is well combined.