{"id":447801,"date":"2010-03-19T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/2010\/03\/19\/raw-chocolate-bar-bits-healthier-than-most-granola-bars\/"},"modified":"2010-03-19T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-19T18:00:00","slug":"raw-chocolate-bar-bites-healthier-than-most-granola-bars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/447801","title":{"rendered":"Raw Chocolate Bar Bites: Healthier Than Most Granola Bars"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"You are going to LOVE this recipe, it’s hearty, sweet, delicious and a healthy replacement to granola bars.<\/p>\n

Speaking of which, when was the last time you looked at the nutritional panel on the box of your favourite cranberry, chocolate chip granola bars? If you haven’t, I invite you to check out both the sugar and the sodium content.You might be shocked to realize it has as much sugar as a processed chocolate bar and as much sodium as potato chips.<\/p>\n

Granola bars are a sneaky food and unfortunately manufacturers are more concerned about shelf life and profits than good nutrition. Without naming brands here, most granola bars are nothing more than junk food: Empty calories and containing more ingredients than in my entire kitchen combined. As Michael Pollan puts it: “If a 3rd grader cannot pronounce the ingredient list, don’t buy it”. This is great advice to live by regarding all the food you put into your body.<\/p>\n

OK, enough lecturing as I’m more interested in sharing this latest recipe that will make your cells joyous. If you tried my previous raw cookie recipe<\/a>, then I know you’ll love these raw chocolate bar bites and maybe you’ll even toss those cardboard granola bars in favour of these.<\/p>\n

Benefit of raw chocolate and recipe after the jump<\/p>\n

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Filed under: Healthy Eating, Holistic Recipe You are going to LOVE this recipe, it’s hearty, sweet, delicious and a healthy replacement to granola bars. Speaking of which, when was the last time you looked at the nutritional panel on the box of your favourite cranberry, chocolate chip granola bars? If you haven’t, I invite you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":651,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-447801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/651"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}