Protein Bars

Note: I meant to post this a while ago, but for some reason it didn't. I just found it in my drafts.

I've been trying to make my own protein bar recipe recently. At first I thought I'd make my own recipe, that turned out to be much more difficult than I thought it'd be. Ingredients included almonds, cheerios, nutella, peanut butter, and olive oil. I baked it for about 30 minutes. The thing tasted horrible, and didn't even turn into a solid :


My next try was going to be a modified version of a recipe I saw online. It was mainly protein, strawberries, and chocolate, which sounded delicious to me. The strawberries had to be freeze dried in order to be preserved in the bar. I attempted to freeze dry the strawberries on my own. First I put something that would absorb water on the bottom of the jar - rice. Next I cut a paper so that it would fit in the jar, and hold the strawberries above the rice. I put the strawberries in the jar, and sealed it, and left it in the freezer for a week.
From there a couple things went wrong. I didn't have a negative pressure in the jar, so not all of the water exited the strawberries. Also when I was getting the strawberries out of the jar, the rice got all over the strawberries and stuck to them. The strawberries tasted like rice. I decided this recipe was a failure.

My last  try was a version of the recipe my Mom used to make her own cereal bars. They tasted pretty good, and could be made in a day. The only variation I made to it was adding protein powder.