I’m rarely caught without snacks on hand, I’m that type of person who doesn't like to miss a meal, and you know, irrationally I fear getting stranded on a remote island or being faced with a hungry pack of wolves (always worth a try). But mainly, I carry snacks because finding plant-based food is like trying to find a needle in a haystack, and if you’re eating something nice, best believe I want to be too.
Now despite their hippy, whole food credentials, Nakd bars can be found everywhere, which is fantastic. Amongst the chocolate bars and bags of sweets, I can even find one in a petrol station. I love pretty much everything about their little dairy-free, gluten-free bars and how I can grab one on-the-go now. That is everything bar the price (0.99p for a single bar, about £3 for a pack of 4) for something that is so cheap and easy to replicate at home.
This recipe is taken straight off the back of the packaging of the Nakd bars, and when sealed in an air-tight container in the fridge, they keep for about a week, but my batch barely even made it passed the first evening. There’s no dairy, no gluten and no processed rubbish - just cashews and dates (and much to my Father’s disbelief, nothing else).
Ingredients
| Makes 8 x 35g Bars |
156g Cashew Nuts
147g Medjool Dates (pitted)
Method
Line a square baking tray with cling film.
In a food processor or high powered blender, blitz the cashews until they form a fine powder. However, I do prefer to leave a few chunky bits of the cashews to make the bars a little crunchier.
Add the dates and continue to blitz until both ingredients are well combined and you have a sticky dough. If you are using a blender, you may require stopping and starting as to not overheat the machine too much.
Take the cashew and date dough and press it firmly and evenly across the baking tray and leave in the fridge for half and hour.
Once cooled, you can cut into bars and transfer into your air-tight container.
And there you go: cheap, healthy snacks to grab on-the-go
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