Three ingredient no bake pb oat bars!

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  • keem88
    keem88 Posts: 1,689 Member
    do you think this would work with quick oats?
  • boopsiegrl
    boopsiegrl Posts: 105 Member
    can't wait to make this
  • jackson7478
    jackson7478 Posts: 700 Member
    bump
  • eljurassic
    eljurassic Posts: 7
    Made these last night, the only thing I changed from the three ingredients is that I added a grated square of semi-sweet bakers chocolate to the mix.

    Here are my thoughts:

    Very easy to make, but you have to have strong willpower if you do make them for a few reasons. The first is there is nothing like the taste of melted peanut butter and honey from the pot. It is a Winnie the Pooh fantasy. Second the pieces are kinda small. They aren't tiny, but they aren't huge either. If you eat the first one fast you could easily go for a second quickly. At 250+ calories having two is not a good idea. With the size in mind let me say they may not be huge but if you take your time and enjoy it they will keep you full (kept me from breakfast to lunch). So it isn't the size that counts it's how you use it.

    Overall very tasty breakfast for when I don't have time to make any.
  • TheMMan
    TheMMan Posts: 124 Member
    I have a variation of this for on-the-go protein bars that I saw floating on this forum. It is 1 cup oats, 1 cup peanut butter and 2 scoops protein powder. I also add 2 tablespoons of chocolate chips to enhance the flavor.

    Use just over 1/4 cup of water, add the pb and boil in a microwave (~1 min). Add the oats, protein powder and chips & stir. Form into 4 or 5 bars and cool. The entire batch is 800 cals. I make 5 bars, 160 cals and 8 grams of protein.

    If you want, I'm sure you can add honey or extra pb.
  • tkdgirlms
    tkdgirlms Posts: 73
    Made them last night and decided that I need to lower the amount of honey, it was a bit to sweet for me and I like sweets. :-) Otherwise, good food!
  • flywithgeorge
    flywithgeorge Posts: 62 Member
    bump
  • flowersofdawn
    flowersofdawn Posts: 47 Member
    I ended up making these over this past weekend, but I used almond butter instead of peanut butter. It is pretty sweet but the biggest thing I found is that they don't hold up their "bar" form, they are a bit gooey?? It might be the natural almond butter's oils so maybe cutting back on that to about 3/4 a cup would work, or adding a protein powder?

    Anyone else have this happen?
  • 123janea
    123janea Posts: 36 Member
    Bump to try
  • kbugsmeemaw
    kbugsmeemaw Posts: 107 Member
    bump
  • kristen2713
    kristen2713 Posts: 253 Member
    bump! must try! thanks!!
  • gamagem
    gamagem Posts: 87 Member
    I've made this the original way the poster posted and loved it, so my husband and I doubled the recipe added about 4 Tblsps of dark chocolate unsweetened powder and sprinkled some dark chocolate chips on top. They taste just like the no bake cookies my mom used to make! I agree they can be high calorie, but we also found a little goes a long way. We eat about a 2 oz bar of them after dinner for dessert. My 3 and 5 yo love them too! I really like them both ways though. This will definitely stay in our recipe rotation. Thank you for sharing. Next time we make them we will be weighing the empty pan first then weighing it filled up so we can get an accurate gram for gram calorie count.
  • cupcakekate28
    cupcakekate28 Posts: 31 Member
    bump!
  • amybigger
    amybigger Posts: 3
    Bump
  • Freaky_kittie
    Freaky_kittie Posts: 4 Member
    bump
  • page68
    page68 Posts: 220 Member
    keeper
  • boopsiegrl
    boopsiegrl Posts: 105 Member
    keeper thanks
  • PowerfulHunt
    PowerfulHunt Posts: 281 Member
    Bump.
  • mrogers52
    mrogers52 Posts: 378 Member
    Yum! Sounds wonderful:smile:
  • earlnabby
    earlnabby Posts: 8,171 Member
    do you think this would work with quick oats?

    It may work but won't have the same texture.

    I have a recipe similar and I add 1/3 cup flax seeds.
  • debrakay001
    debrakay001 Posts: 8 Member
    :tongue: :tongue: bump
  • Siannah
    Siannah Posts: 456 Member
    Sounds good!
  • Zx14chick
    Zx14chick Posts: 255 Member
    I actually have these ingredients right now. I can't wait try this!
  • blpope
    blpope Posts: 163
    This sounds so good! Thanks!
  • PuppyLove2
    PuppyLove2 Posts: 7 Member
    Yummy!:smile:
  • Cindyloo01
    Cindyloo01 Posts: 94 Member
    Definitely a keeper. Might try adding some cereal or something.. Cheerios maybe? Endless possibilities!
  • greeneyes972
    greeneyes972 Posts: 87
    I'm gonna try this, thanks for posting!
  • Snip8241
    Snip8241 Posts: 767 Member
    Yum.....bump
  • ekat120
    ekat120 Posts: 407 Member
    This sounds like an awesome preworkout snack! I'm going to try to make it in single servings though (I'm thinking 1/4 c oats w/2 tbs of pb and 1-2 tbs honey) because I haven't even tried it and I already don't trust myself around it.
  • Great_Mazinga
    Great_Mazinga Posts: 214 Member
    This is probably a stupid question, but the oats are pre-cooked, right? Wasn't mention by the author. Thanks!

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