Thinking of making my own meal bars

Hi,

This isn’t related to RISC OS or anything like that, but I was thinking about a problem I have sometimes.
Sometimes I’m really busy and don’t have a lot of time to prepare food. What I need is some sort of food that’s got good nutritional value, but also takes no time to prepare.

I’m thinking of making a biscuit/cake type thing with random nuts and fruit pieces and wholemeal flour, and eggs, and stuff like that. Prepare it at one point in the week, then cut into bars, wrap individually in cling film, and keep in the fridge, maybe eat one a day for lunch or something.

Has anyone here done anything like that?

Funnily enough, on the last BBC Eat Well for Less show, exactly such a thing was described, as “Breakfast Bars”.

The recipe can be found here
– rather fancied having a go myself and meant to look it up anyway!

The recipe can be found here …

Just done a calorie count on that, and it’s 161.5 per portion. Eat it all and it’s 2583.65, rather more than a recommended daily intake. Hope they’re not too more-ish!

They are lessish.

They are lessish.

Is that an informed opinion, a guess, or a humorous observation? In other words, have you tried them or not?

John,

That’s quite a coincidence, this seems to be pretty much exactly what I wanted. I might want to adjust the recipe by adding some more different kinds of nuts/peanut butter/egg to increase the nutritional value, but first I’ll probably try the recipe without any changes to see what it’s like.

first I’ll probably try the recipe without any changes to see what it’s like.

I think that’s wise. My standard breakfasts – porage or two large boiled eggs – works out at about 210 Calories.

Two of these bars are about 323 calories. If I were an athlete (!) I would need more, but if overweight that’s quite a lot.

Give two a try and see how “filling” they actually are.

Of course, if your activity is frenetic, add high calory stuff – but mine is mainly sitting thinking – or sometimes I just sits!

I tried a small piece of one it tasted like cardboard. It made my mother ill. Try it at your peril.