Powerhouse Grain Bars

Celeste Davis

These bars use sprouted grains.  For info on sprouting grains go to www.sproutpeople.com or watch the free video on our website.

Ingredients

½ cup sprouted Quinoa

½ cup sprouted Oat Groats (whole oat, not rolled)

¼ c sprouted Amaranth

5 soaked Medjool Dates

2 Tbs Raw Almond Butter

2 Tbs Raw Agave Nectar

½ cup soaked Raw Pecans

1/3 c Enjoy Life!  Mini Chocolate Chips (could also use dried fruit)

2 Tbs popped Amaranth

Instructions

Coarse grind Pecans in food processor, empty into dish

Put dates, almond butter, agave in food processor and blend well

Add nuts and blend

Add grains and chocolate chips or dried fruit and blend

Grease an 8x8 pan with coconut oil

Sprinkle ½  popped amaranth on bottom of pan

Put dollops of mixture into pan and spread out

Top with rest of popped amaranth

Refrigerate untl firm

Cut into 16 squares

Each square has 71 calories, 3 gr fat, 1 gr sat fat, 0 cholesterol, 16 mg sodrium, 8 gr carb, 1 gr fiber, 2 gr sugar and 2 gr protein

Sprouting the grains actually increases the protein so the protein content is higher.

Really Raw Cookies

Celeste Davis

Ingredients

¼ c soaked raw almonds, ground fine w/ S blade in food processor

7 soaked & pitted Medjool dates

2 T coconut oil

2/3 c finely ground sprouted spelt (sprout then grind in food processor with S blade)

3 Tbs Enjoy Life!  Chocolate Chips

1 Tbs organic fine ground coconut

Instructions

Grind almonds in food processor

Add dates, Grind until fine

Add coconut oil, mix well

Add finely ground sprouted spelt

Stir in choc chips

Grease 8x8 pan w/ coconut oil

Sprinkle ½ coconut on bottom of glass pan

Pat mix into bottom of pan about ¼ inch thick

Sprinkle ½ coconut on top

Cut into 16 bars

Refrigerate

1 bar has 85 cal, 4 gr fat, 1 gr sat fat, 0 cholesterol, 1 gr sodium, 2 gr fiber, 12 gr sugar, 1 gr protein

Sugar is from all natural sources, except for choc chips.

When grains are sprouted the protein and nutrient content are increased by 100-300%.  The amt of protein listed is just for a regular grain, I don’t have any way to calculate the protein after sprouting.