[AbiDrew85]

I'm thinking about making another change to my diet... And the entire way I'm doing things. Trying to come up with a protein "bar" recipe that packs some serious nutrition and that I can completely balance ALL my nutritional needs.

To make it easier on myself I'll probably just crush up, powderize, and mix many of my supplements straight into the recipe.

It'll probably take me a while to formulate before my first test run.

I put "bar" in quotes because I'm not entirely convinced that a bar is going to be the easiest way for me to split this powerful meal replacement into, well, meal replacements. I want to split it evenly, and have about 20g protein per serving, so that it's something I can just devour quickly whenever I have a minute. Cuz that's all I have a lot of the time. And I want to be able to eat it often throughout the day. At least 5 times a day.

Anyways, when I figure out how I'm gunna do this I'll probably post it in here and maybe in its own thread in the foods for NBE area.

I intend to make this recipe very much dominantly protein based. VERY VERY low carb and fat.

It'll probably have a flavor combination of mostly chocolate, vanilla, and hazelnut, with a few other sweet nutty flavors. The primary flour will likely be rye. It was between that or buckwheat and buckwheat sounds just too chancy. I KNOW I like rye, but I've never knowingly had buckwheat. Danged healthy as heck but...

As I've put more and more research into this I have changed my mind. I'm not going to share my recipe openly. Instead I am going to try selling it.

The simple truth of the matter is that there's just nothing at all like what I'm planning to cook up on the market right now. Oh, there's "meal replacement" bars, but OMG the horror! Just read the labels on those atrocities. And there's protein bars... But... holy cow that's some calories! And they don't even provide a balanced meal substitute! We're talking 300 to 500 calories a bar! That is MORE than a meal for me, but no where near the nutrition of one!

I don't know if I can just sell my recipe to somebody like Swanson's or NOW, or if I'll end up cooking up batches to sell myself on ebay or something.

Anyways. That's only one reason. The other reason stems from it though: I have absolutely no other recipe to base my recipe on. I'm having to, for the first time, develop a recipe truly from nothing. And that's hard. And I'm not going to just give that kind of work and effort away.

It'll definitely be an interesting combination. I'm trying to come up with a way to mostly mimic the flavor of my totally sinful hot chocolate recipe. Though not quite. Because I never included mint in my hot chocolate. And I'm going to be putting significant amounts of mint in this stuff. Spearmint, aside from it's NBE benefits, is a crazy super food.

My hot chocolate is basically cocoa powder, milk, french vanilla cream, hazelnut cream, cinnamon, and cayenne. It's basically a VERY rich, creamy, velvety, delectably sweet blend with just a little bit of a kick. You do NOT want to know it's calorie count though. Trust me.

I think I'll wait to disclose any further details until I've had a chance to gather ingredients and experiment.