Larabars

I recently tried a Larabar for the first time the other day.  I was super impressed.

Larabars are raw vegan nutritional bars.  But, they aren't filled with all the fortified crap that you'll find in a lot of other bars.

These are the five flavors that our neighborhood Trader Joe's has:

-cherry pie

-apple pie

-cashew cookie

-peanut butter cookie

-peanut butter chocolate chip

But, Larabars come in 14 other flavors, too:

-banana bread

-blueberry muffin

-carrot cake

-chocolate chip brownie

-chocolate chip cookie dough

-chocolate coconut chew

-cinnamon roll

-coconut creme pie

-ginger snap

-key lime pie

-lemon bar

-peanut butter and jelly

-pecan pie

-tropical fruit tart

This is the "peanut butter cookie" bar.  It has three ingredients (most of the bars have 5 ingredients or fewer): peanuts, dates and salt.

It tastes like a damn cookie.  I didn't eat that one, though.  I told Ian that I would let him try each of these flavors.  He's not big on bars.

Proof.

It's nice to know that there is a healthy treat out there for grabbing and going, but that's not really why I bought them.  My mom is handing her Ninja blender down to us and I want to experiment with making my own bars.  I intend to use these as a model.