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Being a personal trainer keeps me up and moving on my feet all word day long. All the activity and high energy gets me HUNGRY. I often need to eat something quickly between clients to keep me going! Protein bars are great for this. I wanted to come up with my own protein bar recipe for fun. And man, these protein bars are delicious, satisfying, and OH- SO- GOOD- FOR- YOU!

No Bake Peanut Butter Chocolate Protein Bars

5 tbsp natural peanut butter (chunky or smooth)
1 cup dry oat meal
6 scoops chocolate protein powder
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/8 cup (2 tablespoons) flax seeds
1 cup non-fat dry milk
3/4 cup water (depending on what type of protein you use, you may need to add more or less)

Combine dry ingredients in a medium sized bowl and mix well. Then add peanut butter and mix – the mixture will be crumbly and dry. Then lastly, add water and vanilla. It should look like this:

Using a wooden spoon or rubber spatula, mix everything until a dough forms as seen above. The dough will be sticky. Spray an 8×8 pan with non-stick cooking spray. Spread the dough out evenly using CLEAN HANDS as seen below:

Refrigerate a few hours (or freeze for an hour) and cut into 9 squares. Keep refrigerated.

Each bar contains:

200 calories, 21 g protein, 8 g fat, 14 g carbohydrate, 2 g fiber

No bake peanut butter chocolate protein bars

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