I wanted protein balls that actually hold up for a long time, and these ones are ridiculous! Everything goes in a bowl, you stir with a spoon, you roll tight balls between your palms and they go in the fridge. That is it. No baking, no food processor, no complicated step. Peanut butter and honey do the binding, oats give the body, and the dark chocolate chips are why people come back for a second one. Make them once and you will stop buying bars at the corner store!<\/p>\n
This is where mine pull away from the pack. Recipes that call themselves protein balls use yogurt or milk powder, and they top out around four grams a ball. I use half a cup of real protein powder, chocolate flavour, and that lands around seven grams a ball. There are carbs in there too, a good twenty grams, but they are the right kind: they come from oats and honey, not from an industrial bar loaded with corn syrup. Two or three of these and I am genuinely full.<\/p>\n
This is where the recipe actually lives. Before the gym or after. In the kids’ lunchboxes. The three o’clock snack when hunger shows up. Breakfast on the go when you are already late. And my favourite: you are heading out in the car, you know you are going to sit in traffic and get hungry in forty minutes, so you grab two. One big batch on Sunday and you are set for the week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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