 Meat boy is back and today we are not playing with meat. We are going to make chewy chocolate chip granola bars and I was in the supermarket looking for something that was approachable, fairly calorically dense and I thought of these granola bars then. I started looking on the shelf, reading the ingredient list of all of these boxes and you know the ones that were organic that had decent ingredients still had a few things I wouldn't want to consume. So in order to make the recipe healthy, minimally inflammatory and something that I would feel comfortable feeding myself or my family every day I decided to show you guys. And we've done several you know non-carnivore dessert recipes in the past such as chocolate chip cookies, cheesecake that you guys can go back and check out on my channel. In just about any granola bar recipe you'll see oats used as the base and that's what we have here. Interchangeably you'll see some type of nut like walnuts or pecans as well as rice cereal. So what we're doing today is actually a combination. We're going to do rice cereal with some organic macadamia nuts that I dry roasted and salted. So this is going to be the base that we're going to cover with kind of a sticky syrup that we make from sweetener and fat which is going to be coconut sugar, our natures glucose on Frankie's free range foods as well as some coconut oil. Coconut sugar is to me just a less inflammatory version of sugar not as many chemical additives not as much processing has a nice deep like almost brown sugar caramel flavor. The natures glucose is about 75% glucose as opposed to the typical 50% that you see in regular honey maybe even 40-45% so overall it's less fructose less stress on the liver and just a healthier sweetener overall. And the reason we're using refined coconut oil is because it has a neutral flavor it doesn't go bad so we can leave this stuff on the counter for a long period of time. You could also use butter like high quality organic grass-fed butter. For seasoning we're using a vanilla powder as well as a bit of salt and for the chocolate I actually have some chocolate chips which contain some sugar and vanilla in them. You could use regular rock of couch chips but to me they just don't taste right they don't taste as good that would be you know a slightly more natural alternative. First we're going to measure out the dry components and it's going to be two cups of these quick oats. It has to be quick oats because steel cut rolled oats need to be cooked so I mean you have to like cook them yourself then somehow dry them out it would be very very difficult to do. Of course everything we have here is organic to remove as many agrochemical concerns is reasonable. You want two cups of oats for the macadamia nuts or whatever nuts you decide to use about a cup or you could just use rice cereal so we have over two cups I'm actually just going to add about half of this. Now if you did this with just rice cereal it would basically be a rice crispy treat which by all means you can do. If you want you can you know throw this in the food processor to break up the rice cereal a little bit more which is something you should probably do. Everything else excluding the chocolate chips is going to go in a pan about five tablespoons of this coconut oil and we want one cup of sweetener total so whatever you're using whether it's organic sugar, honey, Stevia it's equivalent to one cup of sugar total. So I'm going to do maybe a quarter cup of the coconut sugar and some of you might be wondering Frank why don't you just use only the natures glucose it's because the dryness of the sugar gives it the stickiness so if you don't have like a dry sugar in here at least a little bit the chewy bars aren't really going to stick together that much we're going to add our natures glucose about three quarters of a cup and last for seasoning we have a teaspoon of vanilla powder it's a bit overkill but it'll be good and then half a teaspoon of salt all we have to do is bring this to a boil let it go for a minute or two and then we can mix in the dry stuff honestly this would probably taste a lot better with butter but for some reason almost all the recipes were using coconut oil is this vegan oh no we have honey in it so I guess this is actually unfortunately close to being a vegan recipe if you omit the honey and just use coconut sugar yikes after about five minutes this is going to start bubbling and just want to make sure to stir so at first the oil was separated from the sugar and now it's kind of homogenous together and we'll keep this going bubbling for about a minute that looks about good so now we'll start adding the dry mixture I'll add most of it and just make sure that we have enough in here to add the rest it looks like we can add the rest to it so we'll turn the heat off and let me just taste a little bit to make sure it's sweet enough yeah that's pretty sweet it's not like crazy sweet like candy but definitely sweet enough for a granola bar now we're gonna lay this out onto a greased sheet tray we just want to try to shape this into some type of rectangle so that when we cut it later we have nice edges we have to let this cool off a little bit before adding the chocolate because it will melt last time I made this recipe it was actually just like a chocolate granola bar because there were no chips left I just completely integrated hey this would be a great recipe to sneak some protein powder into get some whey protein in there get some grass-fed butter for vitamins definitely if you're looking to sneak some stuff into someone's diet this is still really hot so I just got some gloves on I'm trying to pat this down without burning myself you know depending on how much effort you want to put into the presentation you know how much time you spend shaping this you really want to screw up the sides that much do you care it's up to you so this has to cool off for five ten minutes and then we can take the chocolate chips and kind of like press them into the top after about ten minutes it's cooled enough where it's warm to the touch still a little pliable so perfect time to add our chocolate chips the recipe calls for about six ounces I'll just put on a couple of ones and then press them in in hindsight maybe don't pack this so tightly just wait till after you put the chips on you almost have to kind of like press each chip in individually so we'll do this for the whole thing we'll try to get as much on top as possible because you know the only chocolate chips are the ones on top see the chocolate's even even melting a little bit so we could have waited a little longer for this to cool off but it should be fine I think if you waited any longer for this to cool off you couldn't even get these chips on here you know it honestly that's not a bad idea instead of spending all this time putting these chips on top just melt a little chocolate and drizzle it on the top that probably make a lot more sense from a time perspective and it would taste the same yeah I don't know this this honestly isn't even this isn't even warm to the touch so if you really wanted to keep the chocolate intact what I would do is pop this in the fridge or even freezer get it cooled off and then just put the chips on afterwards but we'll pop this in the freezer for maybe half an hour or let it set up and then we should be able to cut it and try it looks horrible nice so we've definitely made things that look better but you know I tasted this and it tastes really good so definitely pop this in the freezer for five minutes before you put those chocolate chips on you should be good to go as I try not to eviscerate myself with this knife all right there we go yeah this is definitely definitely really hard but let's take a bite I was tasting the mixture so I kind of know what this tastes like but let's see how it is at you know near room temperature with the chocolate added this is like crack this is really good I mean it's a chewy chocolate chip granola bar that tastes like twice as good as what you get in the supermarket texture is perfect it's like chewy but still has some crunch it's sweet but not too sweet you get a little bit of that macadamia nut that really adds a lot I would definitely throw those in here and yeah I would definitely put you know some whey protein in here try out the grass fed butter make this a little bit healthier and more nutritious those chocolate chips really make us a lot better so if you don't have those organic chocolate chips I would definitely take some organic rucka cow and mix it with some vanilla and sugar and then drizzle that on top of the bars almost turn into a chubby little Italian boy regardless of what you want to eat if you put in a bit of effort to source high quality organic ingredients and get a recipe with the correct ratios you'll have both a delicious and healthy alternative that tastes a whole lot better so let me know if you guys try out how you like this recipe and honestly if you add whey protein to this and butter it would probably taste even better which I find hard to believe considering how amazing this is and for all you vegan fairy boys just omit the honey and you're good to go so thank you guys for joining me today just leave a comment down below drop a like on the video if you can share this on social media share it to your friends have a make it for their kids but I 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