PooGooBars

[CorsairMac]

looks yummy but I'm allergic to corn, peanuts, and I don't process honey right - gives me migraines!

[nuthatch]

That Moose Goo/Bars/etc. is definitely worth trying!!! Thanks for the post! I found the recipe on-line at a hikers website and the guy said, "This must be what manna from heaven tastes like." I am convinced that when Moses and the nation of Israel were in the wilderness for 40 years they ate Moose Goo (of course it would have been called Camel Goo then). If they had to eat anything else there would have been a revolt!"

My version of Poo was made with several dried fruits - dates, apricots and dried apples for the fruit part, then walnuts for the nuts (cinnamon too). This is still pretty gooey, so I added some oatmeal. I baked it to make it firmer and it turned out to be a yummy cookie-like bar. The oats tended to make the bars dry out when they were frozen, so I might skip the baking part next time. My other version was more like Corsair's, and also very yummy. The prototype batch was way too heavy on the cashews and crumbled apart, looking very much like kitty litter, hence the segue to "Poo" in the name (to appeal to the 8 year old boys who might buy our product, of course! )

This whole concept is very flexible, so have fun experimenting with it! We don't have any idea about nutritional content but we're hoping to come close to the 40/30/30 ratio that most energy bars have.

My next experiment will be to try to reproduce a carob/honey/nut bar I had at the health food store. It had honey, carob, pumpkin seeds, sesame seeds, cashews, almonds and was deeelicious!!! I really like the idea of honey or fruit as the carb source instead of rice/corn/syrup that is normally in energy bars.

I'd love to market our product and make $$$ but I think Lara already has the lock on the recipe!!

Happy cooking!!!

[snowtulip]

Ok, I'm going to have to try making these. CM turned me on to Lara Bars this weekend. She kindly gave me a banana Lara Bar and today I had a cherry one on my ride. They are sooooo yummy, but verrrry pricey. So homemade version, here I come!

[nuthatch]

Ok, I'm going to have to try making these. CM turned me on to Lara Bars this weekend. She kindly gave me a banana Lara Bar and today I had a cherry one on my ride. They are sooooo yummy, but verrrry pricey. So homemade version, here I come!

If you use dates, watch out for pits!! I've had a few tooth-breakers along the trail out of my first batch!!

[CorsairMac]

I have started baking the bars as I found I"m happier with a more "cookie" type of bar. So I bake them for about 20-25 mins @ 250. Remember I'm at 6000' so if you cook them at lower altitude, you'll need to adjust your time and temp.

This weekend I made a batch with dates, apple sweetend cranberries, cashews and bananas and they fed me on my century yesterday!

[Surlygirl]

For those of you on the east coast, I just found Larabars at Trader Joes and they are cheaper than I have found anywhere else.