Recipe: Knock-off Heavenly Hunks (the perfect pre-workout snack!!)

Why does blood sugar balance matter?

➡️ To reduce cravings & control appetite

Our bodies want to maintain a consistent level of glucose in the blood to have available energy to power cells (all the cells in your body prefer glucose for fuel)

Our bodies do not like when blood sugar rises too fast in our blood stream. When this happens, our pancreas releases insulin. Insulin sends a message to the cells to store glucose (aka remove it from the bloodstream because blood sugar is high)

But if our blood sugar rises very fast, our body releases so much insulin that sometimes, our blood sugar drops too low, too quickly… and that makes our body send our brain the message “hey our blood sugar is too low, you need to eat something ASAP‼️”

This is essentially blood sugar crashes in a nutshell. 

Therefore we want blood sugar to rise slowly and we want insulin to be released slowly (this summary describes something who is not diabetic & who’s body can release insulin naturally)

The gist is this: if you’re a non-diabetic like me, we can avoid blood sugar crashes by managing how quickly our blood sugar rises.

Let’s get to the recipe…

It’s more blood sugar balanced than Heavenly Hunks because of lower sugar, higher protein and higher fiber!!

Here’s what you need:
🔥75 grams protein powder (I used @truvani vanilla)
🔥17 grams honey
🔥190 grams all natural peanut butter
🔥40 grams semi sweet chocolate chips
🔥200 grams sprouted rolled oats
🔥20 grams unsweetened coconut flakes
🔥220 milliliters 2% dairy milk

Mix these up and then form into balls or bars & refrigerate for 2-3 hrs to firm them up!

My total recipe was about 840 grams!!

I kept them in the pan and measured out a different size bar every morning pre workout!

If you want them to come out to 110 calories like Heavenly Hunks - you’ll want to measure out 35-gram balls (this would be about 24 evenly-sized balls!)

➡️ The macros:
CALORIES - 110
FAT - 5.8 grams
CARBS - 9.9 grams
FIBER - 1.9 grams
SUGAR - 2.6 grams
PROTEIN - 5.8 grams

Watch me make these on IG & report back when you give it a try!!!!