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    Home » Uncategorized » Fill Your Freezer - Energy Bites

    Fill Your Freezer - Energy Bites

    Published: Apr 24, 2016 · Modified: Jan 4, 2023 by Steph · This post may contain affiliate links · This blog generates income via ads · About 5 minutes to read this article.

    Fill your freezer energy bites
    Fill your freezer energy bites

    Fill Your Freezer Energy Bites

    Did you know that there is a universal hierarchy of hunger levels?

    Level one – Hungry -  you haven’t eaten in a little while, and your brain is starting to think about food and no longer on the task at hand.

    Level two – Hangry – you should have eaten like 3 hours ago, your blood sugar has dropped. You need to eat right now or there will be blood. This is where you start to grab anything that resembles food – usually in a package.

    Level three – Spangry – this is a level of hungry that happens after spin class. Spangry starts to hit during cool down and my spin bestie and I usually start trying to talk each other out of post spin big macs.

    I try really really really hard to avoid level two and three. No good food decision making comes while in level two or three. One way to try and prevent level 2 and 3 (and how to treat it), is to have healthy snacks at your fingertips. Not only do they need to be readily available, they need to be portable.

    The solution – energy bites!

    They are make ahead, high protein,  portion controlled, freezable, and portable. Pretty much what my snacking dreams are made of!

    Energy Bites all

    Lucky for me, spin bestie is just as obsessed with finding healthy treats as I am. She also gets as excited as I do about golden beets and rainbow carrots. Yes, I have a friend that I send pictures of produce to. This is why I haven’t joined snap chat. How many produce snaps can one person take?

    Spin bestie has been sending me recipe links to energy balls for months now, and every time I make something she picks out, it’s a winner – so this weekend we decided to take a couple of hours and fill our freezer with energy balls!

    Mostly because they sound like desserts, these are the energy balls we landed on:

     Peanut Butter Coconut Energy Bites - Grounded Health  NOTE: we added the chocolate drizzle. We are rebels like that - we also go to spin a lot so we can easily justify chocolate drizzle.

    Kristins Energy Bites

    Almond Joy Energy Bites - Gimme Some Oven 

    Almond Joy Energy Bites

    Carrot Cake Bites - Joyous Health

    Carrot Cake Energy Bites

    Coconut Cashew Energy Balls - Nutrition Stripped

    Cashew Energy Balls

    Cake Batter Energy Balls - The Healthy Maven

    My husband and daughter think these are timbits ( a Canadian donut). Lesson learned: double this recipe.

    Cake Batter Bites

    Chocolate Cherry Energy Balls - The Healthy Maven - we didn't have dried cherries, but did have dried cranberries and blueberries so just used those and it worked just fine.

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    First step was to determine all of the ingredients we needed. This is where it becomes clear my project manager day job comes in handy.

    Energy Bite Ing. Matirx

    Yes, this is an ingredient matrix. Yes, it is in excel with formulas. Yes, it is awesome, and no, this isn’t the first time I have created an ingredient matrix.

    Another reason why spin bestie and I are meant to be friends is that between the 2 of us we had all of this in our pantries and we didn’t have to go buy anything.

    I will warn you that if you don’t have a stocked pantry and have to purchase all of these supplies, it is going to be pricey.

     | Method to Our Madness | 

    This took about 2 hours for two of us to tackle these recipes. Most of the time is in the rolling of the balls. The beauty of this is that there is no oven, no cooking. Just a a couple food processors and raw ingredients!

    Here is what we did:

    1. Layout all of the ingredients and take a photo

    Energy Bite Ingredients

    1. Each of us labelled a freezer bag for each recipe.
    2. Grab your food processor and pick a corner of the kitchen so you are not running into eachother.
    3. Divide and conquer. Each tackle a recipe and dump the finished products into bowls.
    4. Invent a faster way to turn the mixtures to balls and sit there making oh so many jokes while you roll balls for the next 20 minutes.
    5. Divide up the fruits of your labour.
    6. Keep in the freezer
    7. Eat

    A few notes on freezing. I have put these all in a ziplock baggie and put into the freezer in hopes I wouldn’t have one big frozen ball. It has worked because:

    • I separate the layers with parchment paper - if there are multiple layers. When you do this as a team, you end up with half of the recipe and won't need to do this.
    • I lay flat until they are frozen. Once individually frozen, you can orient them how every you want and they won’t stick too bad.
    • If they do stick a bit, I just smash them lightly (is that even a real thing?) on my counter to separate them.

    In the morning I pull a few out into a small container and then I have them ready for the day. I prefer mine cold, so I keep them in a fridge at work but it’s not necessary.

    Energy Bite Collage

    So, there you have it, Fill Your Freezer -  Energy Bites. 

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    Comments

    1. Shomni Steele says

      April 24, 2016 at 11:49 pm

      Too bad these aren't more diabetic friendly as they look amazing, but 8g of sugar per one ball (Apple Chai Energy Balls) eek!

      Reply
      • Lynda Lou MacIntyre says

        April 25, 2016 at 11:00 pm

        These kinds of recipes are variable. Substitute any ingredient that doesn't work for you to one that is more suited to your needs. Be creative! Can't tolerate sugar? Don't let that stop you. Put in your favourite sweetener. Xylitol works just like sugar but is very low on the glycemic index making it more friendly to diabetics. Coconut palm sugar too. Do a little research. Enjoy your experiments!

        Reply
      • Louise says

        April 27, 2016 at 12:52 pm

        ~~~you can change it yourself I always do sugar tires me , period.

        Reply
      • Lorraine says

        May 02, 2016 at 9:04 am

        Instead of sugar, when I make them I use agave. Still taste awesome and way less sugar and calories.

        Reply
        • Steph says

          May 02, 2016 at 9:09 am

          My dietician advised my to stay away from agave so I try and stick to honey and maple syrup.

          Reply
    2. Margo says

      April 25, 2016 at 8:34 pm

      I wonder if any of these work with sunflowers instead of nuts for people who want to send them to "nut-free" classrooms/schools or those of us with in house nut allergies....

      Reply
      • Steph says

        April 25, 2016 at 8:35 pm

        Good point. I have never tried with sunflower seeds!

        Reply
        • Anonymous says

          January 05, 2017 at 5:32 pm

          I use sunflower seeds so I can send them to school with the boys. But the unsalted one. They taste good and the boys like them.

          Reply
      • Lynda Lou MacIntyre says

        April 25, 2016 at 11:01 pm

        Yes, you can easily substitute seeds for nuts.

        Reply
    3. Anonymous says

      April 26, 2016 at 8:59 am

      Do you know what the nutritional/calorie count is for these?

      Reply
      • Steph says

        April 26, 2016 at 9:23 am

        I would suggest linking back to the original recipe links/authors for that information.

        Reply
    4. Kristin Brown says

      April 26, 2016 at 10:21 pm

      Awesome job as usual Steph! You make eating healthy so easy AND delicious 🙂

      Reply
    5. Kate says

      April 26, 2016 at 10:40 pm

      What can I replace the dates with?

      Reply
      • sbs says

        May 01, 2016 at 2:32 pm

        perhaps raisins?

        Reply
        • Steph says

          May 01, 2016 at 2:41 pm

          I've never replaced the dates. Once they are all ground up you can't tell they are dates.

          Reply
    6. d says

      May 01, 2016 at 5:53 pm

      Love your blog. Do you have any meal planning or energy bite recipes with no nuts, pb, cashews or almonds?thanks

      Reply
      • Steph says

        May 01, 2016 at 5:55 pm

        The ones I posted here are my go to. I haven't made any no nut ones..... Yet.

        Reply
        • Sue says

          May 02, 2016 at 6:53 am

          Looking forward to any you may post...these look yummy?

          Reply
    7. Sue says

      May 02, 2016 at 6:52 am

      Do you have any nut free energy bites recipes? Walnuts and almonds are super healthy but not if they send you into anaphylactic shock
      Or you are sending them in kids' school lunch boxes

      Reply
      • Steph says

        May 02, 2016 at 6:55 am

        I haven't used any nut free yet - sorry.

        Reply
    8. Jan says

      January 10, 2017 at 1:17 pm

      Exciting to think that I'll have the little bites ready for the hunger attacks! I noticed you have KRAFT peanut butter. Do they have anything natural? My husband has started to use organic peanut butter for the taste. I don't do well with peanuts, but I can substitute. I always read labels and avoid additives of all kinds including sugar. I've seen icing sugar added to peanut butter and other things...avoid hydrogenated anything and food colour anything, so sprinkles are out. Thanks for all these great recipes to adapt!

      Reply
    9. Irene says

      January 21, 2017 at 3:12 pm

      Love your ingredient grid. So easy to see which recipe I have the ingredients for.

      Reply
    10. Christine says

      June 07, 2018 at 9:55 pm

      Help! You had a great recipe and I can't find a link for raw brownies? I believe it was posted a couple of years ago. There were lots of toasted nuts, dates and I can't remember what else. Can you post the link?

      Reply
    11. Kim says

      August 08, 2018 at 9:45 pm

      Your carrot cake ball link doesn’t work

      Reply
      • Steph says

        August 12, 2018 at 7:32 pm

        Thanks. I have fixed it.

        Reply

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