What’s Your Favorite On-the-Go Bar?
There are over 100 "energy" bars on the market…
…from high protein to high fiber, fat burning to low carb and everything in between.
So what do you look for when choosing energy bars?
How do you choose the bars that you eat?
Do you care about carbs? Sugar? Taste? Protein content?
We want to know what your favorite bar is and why…and this week we’re sharing our favorites and also how to sort through all the hype when looking at what are often nothing more than expensive candy bars.
Please post your comment
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Special K High Protein Bars-chocolate & peanut butter
Cliff Bar – Peanut Butter Crunch
Power Bar Harvest – Chocolate Chip, Toffee Crunch or Double Chocolate. (I am sensing a chocolate deprived pattern)
Prograde Craver (frozen).
These were on the approved snack list from a really bright, witty and intelligent trainer.
Detour bars – lower in sat fat, lower in sugar high protein
Lean bars – some for same reasons as detour
they taste pretty good too.
Kashi TLC Chewy Granola Bars (Peanut Butter, Honey Almond Flax, Trial Mix)
140 calories; 5 fat; 85-105 sodium, 5-6 sugar, 4 fiber, 6-7 protein
Pria, Harvest Grain, Marathon Bar. Really by taste. I have tried a few others but they tasted like powder. Yuck!
Myoplex Lite – Peanut Caramel Crisp. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, it is very tasty, has 25g carbs, 15g protein and only 190 calories. It is important that the bar has over 10g protein, and sufficient carbs as well (right, boss?), and equally important is taste. This one is one of the best I’ve tasted.
Kashi Dark Mocha Almond, with a side of whey protein–fiber, protein, almonds for monounsaturated fats, and those tiny little chocolate chips–yum!
Myoplex Light bar – Chocolate Crisp, I choose this bar because it fits my “20% or less” rule for total fat intake. I haven’t seen the Peanut Caramel Crisp bar that Rhonda mentioned, so I will look for them.
I agree with Debbie. I love the Kashi TLC bars especially the Honey Almond Flax, but they have a few more carbs than I like. For low carb and low sugar and decent protein I go for chocolate bars by South Beach.
mini Cliff Bars – nice little ~100 calorie snack that gets me over a mid-morning/afternoon slump or fuels an early-morning workout. plus it’s organic. i typically don’t eat a full energy bar unless i’m desperate because i prefer a “real” balanced meal/snack and i can’t justify eating 200+ calories of something that tastes terrible.
I agree with Michelle, there aren’t many that are ‘healthy’ that I love the taste of…..I usually eat the Prograde Cravers….the taste is just ok to me (will have to try freezing them, thanks Mike!)
Cliff
Builder’s
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Advocare – snack bar – chocolate nougat.
140 calories, 21 total carbs, 3 g fiber, 2 g sugar, 10 g protein