With the first official day of spring tomorrow, we are busy planning our next hiking adventure! We hope that you are thinking about getting outside more too! As you probably know by now, we are avid hikers and lovers of almost all outdoor/adventure activities so that means we can usually come up with some good (as in YUMMY!) and portable recipes that will give us the protein and energy we need to keep up with a demanding outdoor activity. P.S. You can read more about our hiking adventures here.

These protein bar and bite recipes are some of the most popular recipes on the website and we wanted to make it easy for you to find our favorites! Choose one or two and make them before you hit the trail!

These are great for day hikes, climbing, bike rides, really any activity! Most are gluten free (or can easily be made gluten free) and they are clean eating approved! ;-) Best of all, kids and spouses love these!

Energy/Protein Bites

Peanut Butter & Jelly (PB&J) Bites

No Bake Chocolate Chunk Almond Butter Protein Bites

Four Ingredient Energy Bites

No Bake Peanut Butter Oatmeal Protein Bites

Homemade Clean Granola Bars

Trail Mix Protein Bars

Four Ingredient Protein Bars

Bonus Recipe

Gluten Free Power Granola

Find more of these recipes on our Protein Bar page!

Which one is your favorite?

- Scott and Whitney

Gluten Free Peanut Butter & Jelly Bites

February 16, 2015Protein RecipesWhitney Carlson4 Comments

Peanut Butter and Jelly...those words just scream "childhood" to me! I'm not a big sandwich person but I LOVE PB&J sandwiches! Scott & I were talking about them a few weeks ago and decided to make them into bites to take on our hike with us. They are the perfect cravings buster and great to give you a little boost of energy (just don't eat all of them!). Not to mention, these are perfect for kids. Who said that PB&J had to be a sandwich? Put some of these in their lunch box and mix it up a bit - I bet they even like these better! They are easily made gluten free by using gluten free oats.

PB&J BITES

Ingredients:

1 1/4 cup gluten free quick cooking oats (or rolled oats - see below)
1 cup natural peanut butter
1 1/4 cup organic raisins
1 1/2 - 2 tsp vanilla extract (avoid HFCS)

*If using rolled oats or extra thick rolled oats add approx 1 Tbsp unsweetened applesauce.

Directions:

Combine all ingredients in a food processor
Add 2-3 Tbsp warm water to mixture and pulse a few more times until ingredients start sticking together
Spoon out onto parchment paper
Chill until ready to eat

Makes approx 25 Balls.

Enjoy!

Healthy, Eat Clean Valentine's Day Breakfast Recipes

February 10, 2015Recipe Roundup, SeasonalWhitney CarlsonComment

Valentine's Day is almost here! Even if Valentine's Day isn't a big deal to you (Don't worry - it isn't really to us either!), you can still use it as a reason to make one of these yummy naturally red breakfast recipes! These healthy recipes will give you a great start to your day! Best of all, most of them can be made ahead of time and just re-heated (or eaten cold)! All of these recipes are (or can be made) gluten free as well! P.S. The kids will love them too!