Following Instructions: Paleo Protein Bars

As a new mom and someone who isn’t a fan of cooking, I need to make dishes that are easily eaten with one hand. It’s a given that every new mom only has one free hand. The other is usually holding a baby or deterring a baby from crawling and eating dirt.

When Lindsay posted her Homemade Paleo Protein Bar, it look super easy to make. They’re full of protein, which I need because I’m still a milk-making machine. I made these in minutes!

Fit & Awesome’s Paleo Protein Bar

For the original recipe, go here and grab those ingredients and make your own!

I made some edits because I didn’t have cacao nibs or walnuts on-hand.

• 1/3 cup raw almonds
• 1/3 cup raw cashews
• 1/3 cup dried apricots
• 1/2 cup medjool dates
• 1/3 cup mini chocolate chips (is it still paleo if I used semisweet chips? hah!)
• 1/4 cup of shredded coconut

I don’t have a food processor but I do have my Vitamix! I pulsed the crap out of the ingredients, but then I couldn’t figure out how to make them into “bars.” When I hand-molded them, my bars looked like turds. Or pathetic-looking Almond Roca bars. (That’s being nice.)

Then I had a lightbulb moment and pulled out my spam musubi mold!! YESSSSSSSS. (I bought my spam musubi mold at Mitsuwa but Amazon sells the same one!)

I took my turds and put them in the mold and smashed them with the top. Voila!! Bars!!

My “recipe” yielded four brick-sized bars of yumminess. I put them in the fridge overnight and they firmed up well. This is not a low-calorie snack. It’s high in fat and protein. PERFECT!

As a person who needs to eat quickly and fill up on protein over carbs, this was a success! I can’t wait to ziploc them and take them on the go! I’ll be making more of these snackers in a couple days. I’m going to try adding oatmeal and ground flaxmeal to the recipe and see how it goes.

Now that you’ve seen how easy these are to make, will you make them?

Thanks to Lindsay and the Fit & Awesome team for posting such an easy recipe to make. This new mama appreciates all one-handed eats!

Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links. If you click on them and purchase something, I receive a commission at no cost to you. The commission(s) go back to running this site. Thanks!