Nutty Peanut Butter Trail Mix Bars are a combination of high-protein peanut butter, dried fruit, nuts, and seeds. They are an easy, no-bake, gluten-free snack that is packed full of superfoods.
Nutty Peanut Butter Trail Mix Bars. When salty meets sweet. 😉 We love granola bars. When we were growing up more often than not we always had a Quaker chewy granola bar in our bag. But, today there are so many granola bars on the market. Many made with unhealthy or processed ingredients. Oh, and did we mention that many of them are expensive too? Like $3.50-$4 for a single bar, sometimes? Who are these people kidding! If we are going to spend $4 it is going to be for a full meal, not just a snack. Plus, with the store bought bars you can't customize them to include all of your favorite superfoods. Sigh.
Let's solve all of those problems and take the (no-bake) granola bar making to our own kitchen, shall we? Just take a look at the ingredients:
Does it get any healthier? You can swap the peanut butter for any nut or seed butter, you can swap the nuts and seeds for any combination of either/or you like, you could replace the honey with maple syrup or agave and use any dried fruit your heart desires. PLUS, you could opt to add in something sweet like chocolate chips to really take it up a notch. Or maybe even a chocolate drizzle on top? Yeah, that sounds perfect actually. We did say that dark chocolate is healthy, didn't we?
If made with an all natural nut or seed butter instead of the high-protein version these bars would be dairy free, vegetarian, gluten-free and vegan (if you swap the honey for agave). Total win!
Nutty Peanut Butter Trail Mix Bars Ingredients:
- 1 ½ cup rolled oats
- ⅔ cup whole almonds
- ⅔ cup dried fruit (any combination of raisins, blueberries, cherries, cranberries, etc. no-sugar-added, if desired)
- ¾ cup whole cashews
- ½ cup pepitas
- ⅓ cup ground flax
- ¼ cup sunflower seeds
- 1 cup high-protein peanut butter
- ⅓ cup honey (or sweetener of choice)
- pinch sea salt
And if you like this recipe, you're going to love these peanut butter chocolate bars!!
Ingredients
- 1 ½ cup rolled oats
- ⅔ cup whole almonds
- ⅔ cup dried fruit medley
- ¾ cup whole cashews
- ½ cup pepitas
- ⅓ cup ground flax
- ¼ cup sunflower seeds
- 1 cup high-protein peanut butter or nut butter of choice
- ⅓ cup Honey or liquid sweetener of choice
- pinch Sea Salt
Instructions
- Line a 9x9 in baking pan with parchment paper. Leave some paper hanging over the edges.
- Place almonds and cashews in a food processor and pulse until roughly chopped
- Add chopped nuts, oats, dried fruit, seeds, flax and sea salt to a bowl
- In a separate bowl combine the honey and peanut butter
- Microwave in 20 seconds increments until runny
- Add the honey/peanut butter mixture to the bowl with the nuts/seeds/oats.
- Mix well
- Press the mixture into your lined pan and chill in the refrigerator for 1-2 hours
- Slice into desired size bars
- Store in a sealed container in the refridgerator for 10-14 days. (If they last that long!)
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Tammy says
Can you roll into balls as well?
Meal Prep on Fleek says
Hey Tammy! We didn't try rolling them when we made the recipes... but you could definitely give us a try and let us know how it goes. You will know right away if they hold together or not. =)
Lainys says
Hello, I love your recipes but I do not understand metric measurements. they do not look right.
How to do?.
Sarah Kesseli says
Hi Lainys - We have a drop-down button at the top of the recipe that allows you to toggle between metric and imperial units for easy recipe conversion.
Lainys says
Hello , i don't understand this conversion.
Look this: 354 15/17 ml rolled oats
157 37/51 ml whole almonds
157 37/51 ml dried fruit medley
177 15/34 ml whole cashews
118 5/17 ml pepitas
78 44/51 ml ground flax
59 5/34 ml sunflower seeds
236.59 ml high-protein peanut butter or nut butter of choice
78 44/51 ml Honey or liquid sweetener of choice
pinch Sea Salt