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Easy Energy Bites Recipe for Quick Energy Boost

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by

Essie Oh
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Recipe:

This is my go-to for easy to make energy bites.

  • 2 cups quick oats
  • ½ cup flax seed
  • ½ cup chia seeds
  • 1 cup creamy peanut butter
  • ½ cup mini chocolate chips
  • ½ cup honey
  • ½ cup Craisins
  • ½ cup finely chopped dates

Directions

Mix all energy bite ingredients well. (Or just some of the ingredients. This isn’t a science. Don’t like dates? Don’t add them. I add them because these are the only dates I can get. Point being: use what you want. The original recipe I swiped this from was as follows – use this if you prefer.

  • 3 cups of quick oats
  • 1 cup of creamy peanut butter
  • ½ cup of honey
  • ½ cup of mini chocolate chips

Roll into balls. Dealers choice on size. These are your balls. Don’t let other people judge your ball size. Just know that your hands are going to end up a goddamn mess. It’s fine though, you’ll wash them.

Stick them in the fridge. Is this necessary? Yes. 100%. They will last longer and be less messy and sticky. The sticky on these energy bites is real.

Pro tip: use Dawn Powerwash* to wash all that sticky shit off your hands.

*This is not sponsored by Dawn…yet. Holla at your girl, if you’re interested, Dawn! I love wildlife too!

I don’t have a picture of the energy bites, but here’s a picture of my grandma, sitting on my poppy’s lap. You see she’s wearing her apron. Could she have just finished making a batch of energy bites…? Who’s to say.

The story behind this easy and tasty energy bites recipe:

Let me tell you about how much my grandmother loved these energy bites… She didn’t. Whose grandma eats fucking energy bites? Not mine. But if she did eat them (which she didn’t), and she liked them (which she wouldn’t have), she would say, “that tastes me!” So these are my tasty energy bites.

Grandma would [not] have eaten them to help fuel her through her many marathons that she never ran, and also to keep her metabolism at peak performance (which she never cared about; Bev cared about her kids and grandkids, gossip, her friends, card games and garage sales… not necessarily in that order). They are nutrient dense and packed with fiber and complex carbohydrates which feels like things we should care about, amiright? They’re also a great on-the-go snack… are they though? I dunno. Did I mention how sticky they are?

Bottom line:

  • Damn tasty energy bites
  • Easy to make in advance
  • Quite versatile in ingredients
  • Good nutrition (unless you’re on the paleo diet. Or keto. Or Atkins. Or the Mediterranean diet, etc.)

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