Homemade Lara Bar recipe

My flight from New York to Chicago was so effing delayed - 4 HOURS, people - and I did not want to buy anything from the overpriced stalls in the airport, even though I was hungry. I did end up buying a Lara bar though, and it was pretty good. It advertises itself as a raw food/vegan/kosher energy bar. Whatever. Mainly dates and nuts - a mini-meal or big snack at a whopping 220 calories - but much better than stale-ass $10 sandwich.

When I was up in Madison, I stopped by Whole Foods and came out with, among other things, another Lara bar. It pretty much saved me during one long gross afternoon in the sun. Too late for lunch, too early for dinner, and unwilling to mingle during the incongruous consumerist event known as Maxwell Street Days.

Found a recipe from Bunnyfoot and was inspired to make my own in ginger since I liked the Lara Bar Ginger Snap so much. Thank you!

I even painstakingly calculated all the nutritional info, too. The fat content is sort of high due to all the nuts. But it's "good" fat, I suppose. I don't know, I just wanted to make something.

Lara Bar recipe, Ginger
Ingredients
1/2 cup dried dates, chopped coarsely
1/4 cup almonds, crushed coarsely
2 TB oatmeal (the non-instant kind)
1 tsp ginger juice
1 tsp ground ginger
generous pinches of: ground clove and ground cinnamon

Utensils:
Food processor
Knife
Plastic wrap
Spatula

1. Pour chopped dates into a food processor and chop them up even more. You need to chop them beforehand, otherwise in whole form, they would have stuck to the blade and gone for a fun ride instead of being pureed. It should look like a giant brown ball or pulverized.

2. Add all the other ingredients into the food processor and chop chop chop until every thing looks like it won't choke you when you eat it.

3. Use the spatula to scrape the mixture onto a sheet of cling wrap. Seal it up and roll it into a log. I hate getting my hands dirty and sticky, hence the cling wrap and spatula. It'll look like poo, but it'll be delicious. Put it in the fridge for twenty minutes to set.

4. Take it out and try to shape it into a long rectangular shape. Or not. I just didn't want mine to look like poo. Unwrap and cut it in half.

Looks a bit shiny from the cling wrap.

Serves 2, keeps for a week if refrigerated.

I don't know about the ginger content, I probably need more. Will update tomorrow when I have one.

If you hate ginger, Bunnyfoot recommends a bunch of other things too. I happen to like ginger. Plus, it cuts down on the fruity sweetness of the dates.

Nutritional info:
One serving: 2 oz
Calories: 203, Calories from fat: 67
8g fat, 0.5g saturated fat
0mg cholesterol
250mg Potassium
35g Carbohydrates, 5g dietary fiber, 21g sugar
4g protein
0% Vitamin A, 0% Vitamin B, 4% Vitamin C, 4% Calcium of daily requirements

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