No-Bake Pumpkin Protein Bars

Pumpkin is often associated with fall flavors, but its nutritional benefits + affordability make it a great ingredient to incorporate into your diet all year long!

The versatile and nutritious pumpkin is packed with vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants that support immune function, eye health, and digestive well-being. Pumpkin is also high in fiber, making it a great addition to a weight management/gut healthy diet.

Our No-Bake Pumpkin Protein Bars are a delicious and convenient way to reap the rewards of pumpkin’s nutritional profile.

Made with pure pumpkin puree, natural almond butter, and coconut flour, these bars are a powerhouse of healthy fats, protein, and complex carbohydrates.

With the added boost of vanilla protein powder, these bars are perfect for post-workout snacking or as a quick energy boost to get you through your day. So go ahead, indulge in the nutritional goodness of pumpkin (all year long!) and make these delicious bars a part of your healthy lifestyle!

🎃There are SO MANY reasons to add pumpkin to your diet – it’s loaded with vitamins, minerals, and plant compounds that are good for you.

PLUS … it’s low in calories and tastes great.

Here are just a few of pumpkin’s benefits: it’s good for your vision and immune health, and it may even help reduce your risk of cancer!

Pumpkin also protects your heart, lungs, and kidneys, helps battle high blood pressure, and it’s good for your skin.
Eating pumpkin can keep us looking young thanks to beta-carotene that helps protect us from the sun’s wrinkle-causing UV rays = younger-looking skin.

REFERENCES
WebMD 

🧡Pumpkin pie filling and pumpkin puree often sit in cans or cartons right next to each other on the grocery store shelf. It can be easy to grab one, thinking it is the other because the two products look very similar.

However, they are *VERY* different products!

Pumpkin Puree (that can also be made at home very easily) should list ONLY Pumpkin on the ingredients label.

Pumpkin pie filling usually has many ingredients, one of which is lots of SUGAR.

🎃Homemade Pumpkin Puree

Homemade Pumpkin Puree – One Ingredient

🍯Sweetness Factor is a very personal taste preference, so you may want to use more or less raw honey or pure maple syrup, depending on YOUR family’s specific taste preferences. You may find that your protein powder is sweet enough and leave out the honey/maple syrup altogether.

🥛Use ANY unsweetened/plain milk of your choice. My personal favorite for this recipe is unsweetened coconut milk or cashew milk. Any unsweetened nut milk, coconut milk, or high-quality grass-fed cow’s milk/cream all work really well here. Use what you personally like and have on hand.

Homemade Pumpkin Pie Spice Mix Blend:
1-1/2 Tbsps ground cinnamon
1 tsp ground ginger
1/4 tsp ground cloves
1/4 tsp ground nutmeg

Combine well. Store in an airtight container. Use desired amount for recipes.
Nut-Free:
Use sun butter (sunflower seed) or tahini sesame seed butter) and omit the almond butter.
No Almond Butter:
Use peanut butter, macadamia nut butter, pistachio butter, cashew butter, or tahini (sesame seed butter) instead.

-> I used “Just Ingredients” protein powder in vanilla flavor for these protein bars.
Why is the Just Ingredients Protein

Powder our FAVORITE option?

The protein comes from 5 sources: 100% super high-quality grass-fed whey, pea protein, pumpkin seed, chia seeds and collagen. There is a lot less whey compared to normal protein powders so it may be easier on the stomach than other protein powders!

• Free from sugar, gluten, artificial sweeteners or any artificial ingredients.

Special link:
Use this discount code: Crush

For a 10 percent discount on all Just Ingredients products, you’ll need this specific link AND the discount code.

8 servings

Ingredients:

• 1 cup pure pumpkin puree
• 1/2 cup natural almond butter
• 1/2 cup coconut flour
• 4 scoops vanilla protein powder
• 2 Tbsps raw honey or pure maple syrup, or to taste
• 1 Tbsp pumpkin pie spice mix blend, or to taste (recipe above)
• 1/2 tsp fine sea salt
• 1-2 Tbsps unsweetened milk of choice

Instructions:

In a large bowl, whisk the pure pumpkin puree together with your almond butter until smooth.

Add coconut flour, vanilla protein powder, raw honey, pumpkin spice, and sea salt. Stir well to incorporate, until you have a cookie-dough like consistency that holds together.

Add 1-2 tablespoons of milk to make your mixture a bit sticky.

Line a loaf pan with parchment paper and transfer the mixture, pressing it firmly into an even layer in the bottom.

Refrigerate for at least 30 minutes, then slice into bars.

Leftovers: Wrap tightly and store in the refrigerator for up to 2 weeks or the freezer for up to 2 months.
Enjoy!
🧡Rachel

No-Bake 𝐏𝐮𝐦𝐩𝐤𝐢𝐧 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐢𝐧 𝐁𝐚𝐫𝐬

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Ingredients

• 1 cup pure pumpkin puree
• 1/2 cup natural almond butter
• 1/2 cup coconut flour
• 4 scoops vanilla protein powder
• 2 Tbsps raw honey or pure maple syrup, or to taste
• 1 Tbsp pumpkin pie spice mix blend, or to taste (recipe above)
• 1/2 tsp fine sea salt
• 1-2 Tbsps unsweetened milk of choice

Instructions

1. In a large bowl, whisk the pure pumpkin puree together with your almond butter until smooth.
2. Add coconut flour, vanilla protein powder, raw honey, pumpkin spice, and sea salt.
3. Stir well to incorporate, until you have a cookie-dough like consistency that holds together.
4. Add 1-2 tablespoons of milk to make your mixture a bit sticky.
5. Line a loaf pan with parchment paper and transfer the mixture, pressing it firmly into an even layer in the bottom.
6. Refrigerate for at least 30 minutes, then slice into bars.
7. Leftovers: Wrap tightly and store in the refrigerator for up to 2 weeks or the freezer for up to 2 months.
8. Enjoy!

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