Hot and Healthy Find: LARABAR

The LARABAR: A Truly Healthy Whole Food Snack & Energy Bar I live in the real world so I completely recognize the convenience value of Energy and snack bars but to be honest there really arent very many on the market that I would recommend, much less eat myself! The problem is, so many packaged snack bars, even the ones that go out of their way to advertise themselves as being All Natural or Organic, are loaded with processed empty calorie ingredients. Sure the ingredients might be All Natural and Organic, but that doesnt make them nutrient-rich, healthy and anti-inflammatory. You cant go by the marketing claims (even the Nutrition Facts are highly misleading!) instead, you have to read the ingredients on the foods you buy. If you take the time to read the ingredients on the majority of snack bars crowding the supermarket and health food store shelves youll see the vast majority include some sort of pro-inflammatory, empty-calorie and highly refined vegetable oil (such as soybean oil, cottonseed oil, etc), added sugars and syrups (many sugars are purposely named something healthy-sounding such as evaporated cane juice, organic oat syrup solids, etc), highly processed soy in the form of soy protein isolate, etc. In other words, most snack bars are basically candy bars dressed up in a healthy looking packaged. Which brings us to one snack bar thats anything but a disguise The LARABAR I really cant say enough great and fabulous things about the LARABAR (I wish I had been …