Healthy Snack Bars | Ollie Weekly #8 | Cycling Weekly

Welcome to this weeks vlog. I went to see the former Michelin starred chef Alan Murchison (Performance Chef). Alan is passionate about food and cycling and showed me how to make some really awesome ride food, including energy bars and protein bars. They are really easy to make and taste great, so check out the video. If you have any questions then fire away in the comments below. I’ve also posted some ingredients lists below if you want to have a go at making bars yourself.
Cheers

Ollie



PERFORMANCE CHEF GINGER & TURMERIC ENERGY BARS
75g almonds
250g Medjool dates
200g raisins Or 450g of date paste
250g walnuts or any nut you fancy. Walnuts good as bitter skin gives the bar some nice balance
75g desiccated coconut
80g crystallised stem ginger
15g cinnamon
3g turmeric
pinch of salt
Variations, add cocoa powder, rind or orange & cinnamon, replace walnuts with cashew & 25g stem ginger


Murch’s Chocolate Salty Energy Balls

150g cocoa nib
150g nuts, 80g walnut, 35g almond, 35g brazil
150g dates
15 secs blend nibs to powder
add nuts & repeat process
Blend dates into a paste and add to other ingredients.
Mix everything and form into a paste
Press into a baking tray and fridge for 30 minutes
optional: ADD CHOPPED GLACE MORELLO CHERRIES AND DRIED CHERRIES

Murch’s PROTEIN MULTISEED BAR
This also works really well with salted or even smoked nuts.
All sports bars are too sweet and we all crave savoury/sweet when on the bike.
280g date paste (USE MEDJOOL DATES)
65g manuka honey
3g himalayan salt
80g almond butter or any other one you fancy
90g brazil nuts
50g hazelnuts
20g flax seeds
60g chia seeds
15g sunflower seeds
20g sesame seeds
15g pumpkin seeds
40g quinoa crisps (YOU CAN USE RICE CRISPIES, THIS IS DRIED QUINOA)
1 tsp vanilla bean

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[liambarber]

I make a bar so dry and dense it's nearly impossible to swallow. Offer it to my opponents graciously, and watch them quickly begin to slow down and get dropped. That's my cheat bar.

[tspringbett]

Currently addicted to mince pies post ride!!! 3’s the magic number

[xc]

In germany we got a phrase "Döner macht schöner" which translates to "kebab makes beautiful", so yeah i can't live without it.

[adamcoatham]

Crisps, crisps, and more crisps. I tell myself I'm carb-loading, but I'm actually only loading. Singlehandedly turning my watts/kg into kgs/watt.

[sbbikes]

Great Bars, I’ve have to give them a go.
Cheat food – Dessert, ½ liter vanilla yogurt, ½ liter 35% whipped cream, 2 crushed chocolate score bars or any candy bar will do. Fold together in a bowl and refrigerate for 1 hour. Spoon out into 4 serving cups topped with caramelized sugar. YUM!

[simondaniels]

My own' guilty pleasure is a one-eyed sandwich. Before all the commenters get offended it doesn't contain actual eyes. It's a thick slice of bread with a hole cut in the middle. Fried in butter. Pop an egg in the middle and flip over after a few mins. Great hot or cold it makes a fab snack pre, mid or post ride. Try it!

[rinhu]

Great video, but when you said no fancy equipment you forgot to mention the cern grade centrifuge used in every step

[chazpilks]

White chocolate...I put a strip of white chocolate on the side when I’m on the turbo trainer and if I’ve earned it, then I eat the chocolate. Funnily enough, I’ve always done enough to earn it...plus extra...

[TezTezTezTezTez]

I've got that specialized track top too.. Nice 😉

[anthonykent]

My protein bar recipe: Steak! Rib-eye, done on a wood BBQ. Served with chilled tomatoes, coriander, a mild blue cheese & dash of good olive oil, salt / pepper; with a good crusty bread & fresh butter! Washed down with your choice. Then ice cream!

[sStrike]

Guilty pleasure food is "poffertjes" I think its a dutch thing they are like small little pancakes and you eat them with butter and sugar. Don't ever try them when your in the Netherlands they might be better a "pain a chocolat amandes" and the riding and the weather here isn't as good as in Nice so you wont have a good reason to comeback for more.

[robbchastain]

So is Clif cool with this little enterprise, Ollie? Two episodes after they make your tropical mango oatmeal wango tango bar, you start a brew-your-own operation with a celebrity chef. I expect next week you'll be selling holiday bars outside the train station, foil-wrapped with lots of energy for shopping and seasonal festivities. And surely I grin, this was another fun episode and kudos to you and the Performance Chef. And my ultimate sinfully delicious snack is something I used to buy at a stand near the Kaufhof in downtown Frankfurt--a big crepe with a Nutella-like spread. And next to that would be those crazy onion appetizers at restaurants like Texas Roadhouse and Outback Steakhouse. And speaking of Clif and the holidays, yesterday I bought one of their seasonal offerings, the Hot Chocolate bar. And I'll enjoy it something this weekend with coffee.

[jamiewiley]

5 pack of supermarket cookies in approximately 0:2:30, I'm not proud of it

[perrycole]

Deep Fried Mozza sticks and deep fried mushrooms.

[thomasparsons]

Any ideas how long these should keep once they're made?

[stevemoore]

Welsh cakes definitely. Made with butter and currants but not spice. They don't get a chance to cool down!

[igorvmakarov]

Consider me a not-a-teenage mutant ninja turtle, but there's no way I can live without a pizza!!!

[PerBarholm]

Tubs of hagen das strawberry and cheesecake ice cream. Every time I eat one I feel I have to ride for at least a week to burn of the calories 😂😂

[jh-ojnb]

did you taste the nut butter in murches protein bar?

[Marshythedramallama]

Coffee cake. Cake is the best cheat food. Coffee cake is the best kind of cake. Period.