I had never used a dehydrator before, so had no idea what to expect. I took it out of the box, and looked at all the parts, and marveled at it. Now, we could do real bars, bars that we wouldn’t have to freeze, bars that we could grab and go, just as we always had.
The bar we chose to make was on page 138 of Raw Energy, “Get-up-Go Apple Walnut Bars. It looked like a lot of work, but I thought it would be worth it to get and make our own bars. Oh, there were warning signs, such as that for all the work, we would only get 12 bars out of it, or that we had to leave them in the dehydrator for 24 hours.
And it was hard work, we had to grind up the apples, grind up the walnuts, and then mix them all together. The book said the mixture would be wet, it was sopping wet. I squeezed a lot of the juice out of the bar, as I made them into bars to put in the dehydrator. We put aside all the juice, and figured we would do something with it later, though we weren’t quite sure what, it had an odd taste.
a sample bar
The bars did not turn out badly, as you can see here, but they were a meal in themselves, not a snack, and we never go around to eating them all, and it has been a couple months since we made them. We still have the apple juice, too. I suppose at some point we should thrown that out too.
We have not made any more energy bars, instead eating the raisins, apples, nuts separately, what a novel concept.
