Easy Coconut Bars for Sustained Energy

Ingredients

·         Coconut oil

·         2 eggs

·         1 banana

·         ¼ cup honey

·         ½ tsp vanilla

·         ⅓ cup coconut flour

·         1 cup unsweetened shredded coconut

·         4 Tbsp almond milk

·         ½ cup chopped pecans

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Use the coconut oil to grease an 8x8 pan.

2. Crack eggs into a medium sized bowl and whisk.

3. Mash banana and add to the bowl with the eggs along with the honey and vanilla.

4. Add the coconut flour, making sure to combine everything well and ensuring there are no clumps.

5. Add the unsweetened shredded coconut and almond milk and mix to ensure the batter is well combined.

6. Spoon the batter into the pan and smooth it out. Sprinkle the chopped pecans over top.

7. Bake bars in the oven for 20-25 minutes until edges are brown

*Recipe adapted from mommayoungathome.com

Nutritional Benefits-these little bars are packed with healthy fats to help boost your energy in a hurry. They are also gluten free and paleo!

Coconut (including shredded coconut and coconut flour) –high in saturated fat that gives you energy and boosts your metabolism, high in lauric acid, which boosts HDL helping prevent cardio vascular disease, is high in fiber, which helps eliminate excess LDL out of the body.

Pecans- rich in monounsaturated fatty acids like oleic acid and an excellent source of antioxidants, rich source of minerals like manganese, potassium, calcium, iron, magnesium, zinc, and selenium, high in Vitamin E, which is a powerful lipid soluble antioxidant, required for maintaining the integrity of cell membranes, mucus membranes, and skin by protecting it from harmful oxygen-free radicals.