Homemade Protein Bars with Protein Powder
This recipe for these delicious, no-bake, peanut butter homemade protein bars has 11 grams of protein in each bar! You only need protein powder, milk, oats, and peanut butter.
Jump to RecipeBalance is the key to good health. Carbohydrates, like fruit and grains, are easy to acquire, consume, afford, and enjoy. Protein on the other hand, takes intention, planning, and even a bit more money. That’s why I want to add protein recipes to Health Beet to help myself and you get more protein in each day.
These homemade protein bars made with protein powder are quick and easy.
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Why we need protein!
We need protein because all the tissues and organs in our body require it. The muscles, bones, blood, nerves, skin, etc. are made of protein.
Protein was first named 175 years ago after the Greek word proteios (“of prime importance”)
Personal Nutrition 10th Edition
Recommended amounts of protein for portion control should be based on desired weight and calculated at 0.8 grams per kg of body weight. (2.2 lbs). Which really isn’t much. Balancing your meals with 1/4 of your plate protein, as shown on a portion control plate, will absolutely get you there.
Protein is essential for:
- Growth, maintenance and repair of body tissues.
- Building structures like skin, hair, muscle, bones, etc.
- Regulate enzymes.
- Send messages as hormones.
- Fight substances as antibodies.
- Maintain fluid balance.
- Maintain acid base balance.
- Transport nutrients.
- Provide energy.
I’ll definitely be sharing some of my favorite recipes for getting adequate protein, starting with these homemade protein bars! Also, check out this list of protein foods I eat the most!
How to make Homemade Protein Bars
For these homemade protein bars, I used oats, protein powder (cookies and cream combat brand from Costco), peanut butter, milk, and oats.
Mixed all the ingredients in a bowl, including the protein powder.
And then I formed into balls and bars!
Homemade Protein Powder Peanut Butter Bars
Ingredients
- 1 scoop Protein powder (Combat) any flavor *this one is cookies and cream from Costco
- 1/2 cup dry oats
- 2 tbsp peanut butter
- 2 tbsp milk
Instructions
- Mix all ingredients together and form into 4 balls or 4 bars.
- Chill until ready to eat.
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I don’t know why, but I can’t just leave a recipe alone. I added 2 TBsp Chia seeds, 1/4 cup almond milk and 1/4 cup dark chocolate chips in the mix, then drizzled melted 1/4 cup dark chocolate chips on top. I cooked mine for about 20 minutes. Thankfully, my recipe builder lets me change from servings to weighted measurements for how much I ate.
Yum! Those additions sound amazing!
What is the recipe builder you use?
It’s in the Cronometer app.
what recipe builder do you use please?
I use MyFitnessPal
Hi I hope this makes sense, but I was wondering how to measure out the protein for each bar? With the protein powder
Hi Jai
You would just mix all the ingredients together for the whole recipe, and then form a big square or rectangle, and cut it into four bars equally.
This way, each bar has 11 grams of the protein equally.
So simple, and amazing, just what I needed to increase my protein!
You’ll love these bars Jennifer!
Quick question: is the 142 kcal per bar or for 4 bars/balls? The bottom nutrition facts is different then what’s stated at the top for calorie count. One says the serving is 4 bars and the other one says 1 bar. Thanks for the clarification 🙂
Shannon, thanks for having me revisit this. it was one of my first recipes, and actually, neither looks right now that I’m revisiting it.. but that was supposed to be Per bar! The true calories should be 121 calories per bar. I’ll fix it!
For the full recipe it would be
1 scoop protein powder 140 calories
1/2 cup dry oats 150 calories
2 tbsp peanut butter 180 calories
2 tbsp milk 15 calories
485 calories total or 97 per bar.
these are the best.