Here is my recipe for bars. This makes 10 bars and each bar is 55 grams.
Cal - 137, fat - 3, carbs - 20, fiber - 2, sodium - 77,
sugar - 3, protein - 10
I use casein protein powder instead of Huel but I’m guessing Huel would work.
Add first ingredient to bowl. Add next and stir and so on until all ingredients are mixed in.
I line an 8x8 pan with wax paper and press mixture into it real good.
Fridge for 30 minutes, take out and cut.
I experimented for a while to get the consistency I wanted. Nice thing is I can switch out the 60 grams of chocolate/pb chips for nuts or fruit.
Each bar costs $0.38 - 0.50
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Thanks for the suggestion, Amie. I do have Huel Black powder but it’s unfortunately not suitable/convenient for when I’m traveling or rushing around on the go (for instance, I can’t pop a shaker in my pocket at work, would have to fill and rinse it in a toilet in many cases, run into trouble taking baggies of powder through security checks haha etc.). I also need (psychologically) to chew something a lot of the time. I ‘feel’ considerably more satisfied eating a black bar than I do drinking one scoop of powder and 250ml water.
I tried both flavors of the new bars today, but I won’t be ordering them again. The choco caramel has too much coconut taste for me and the peanut butter one was too sweet for my taste., I don’t really eat sweets that much. I really liked the other bars so I am sad because I really want a vegan complete food snack bar that I can eat on the go.
I do like the hot and savory products so I’ll continue to get those. It would be great if you could come up with some kind of salty snack at some point, like some complete food potato chips or pretzels would be great
Having had the new caramel bars for quite a few days now I have decided that I will not be ordering any more when this batch is over. My main reasons are:
Not filling enough
Initially I liked the taste but I have recently concluded a bit too sweet for me (at breakfast anyway). Plus the odd artificial/synthetic/coconutty tang bugs me.
Not enough protein
Having found better alternatives since my beloved Huel complete protein bar was withdrawn I will be revisiting those.
So for me it will be a GOODBYE to new Complete Nutrition Bars and Huel bars full stop.
These bars are really nice and taste much better than the old ones. They also satisfy and stop sugar chocolate cravings with the added bonus of having multivitamins and being low sugar. Ordered two boxes of the choc caramel with my usual order bundle and ordered a few of the peanut caramel ones, which are also nice. More like a healthy Snickers bar and don’t normally like peanut things. Much better than reaching for a a chocolate bar when you get the urge.
I have received my order today and have tried the peanut butter one. It has lots of peanuts. It is quite sweet tasting, probably a little too much for my liking but not a deal-breaker. Its more like a decadent treat than a chore to eat like the earlier ones but contrary to what someone said somewhere why shouldn’t a healthy snack taste good?
Not as filling as I’d have hoped too, to echo a previous poster.
Why maltitol it’s in like every other high protein bar that exists & it’s so brutal on digestion, I would take slightly better healthier sugars/ingredients over it tasting like a chocolate bar any day
Just had my first of these new bars and I must say, I already miss the old ones.
First off, I want to say these bars taste great as a treat. But it’s like a candy bar - not a nutrition bar. They’re just too sweet for me to crave them as part of my daily routine, and the “2g of sugar” feels misleading, especially coming from Huel, a brand I usually take to be pretty up-front about these things. The bars are very sweet - how much Maltitol is in here? It may be less of a sugar than sucrose, but you’re still getting 2.1kCal/g. And now you’ve had to add the “warning: excessive consumption may produce laxative effects” label due to this sweetener choice.
“Less than 200kcal” is also not a selling point for a nutrition bar, in my view. As another commenter said, I would happily eat a 300kcal bar, with the right calories. Maybe then the price bump would make sense - as it is now they are far more expensive, with less macronutrients, and I don’t fully trust that they wouldn’t spike my blood sugar (have not tested this yet, though previous bars did not). Perhaps the nail in the coffin is that after eating the bar, I don’t really feel full at all.
All in all, I can’t see myself ordering another box going forward, whereas I was a 2 bar/day consumer of the previous Huel bars. Why not simply produce both?
I never understand why they create something, then release something new, but refuse to still make the original available, even if they just did it in one flavour, at least sales wise they could see a comparison of repeat purchases as oppose to ppl just buying the new one because it’s new, not being funny but you can create huel essential, create a vitamin drink, do huel greens for the US, I think you can maybe just keep producing a bar
Somewhat shockingly they arrived intact and not melted but, the Malaysian customs and excise put on their Dick Turpin fancy dress and quadrupled the normal duty on them.
Only tried the Peanut version so far – honest opinion:
Sweetness: marginally sweeter than the Complete Protein but not offensively so – I guess moving from the 3.1 bars to these – that maybe more pronounced. Nowhere near the sugar bomb people are expecting. (much less sweet than a Snickers/Mars)
Texture: it’s a pretty nice mouthfeel, a little softer and drier than I expected (maybe the 5 days sat in the depot is responsible for that). Ive put them in the fridge to firm up before I try another.
Taste: Chocolate is nice not too sweet and better than that bland fudgy style chocolate you get on Grenades. It’s obviously not milk chocolate so not that creaminess to it but not bad. #Coconutgate: first bite – I totally got that then I was thinking how is that happening when they took the coconut out. Second bite it wasn’t coconut – I think it’s more like almond – like when you get a Bakewell tart if that makes sense ?.
Malibowel Shenanigans: none after one bar but the night is young.
Overall: doesn’t taste synthetic but has kind of a weird/dry aftertaste not huge but not like you’ve just ate a snickers (which also have a similar after taste experience for me). Nicest bar taste and texture wise they’ve made so far albeit not a seismic shift.
I agree, there is a very vague taste of what I perceived to be coconut too in the peanut one. Not overpowering but definitely there. Definitely to me more coconut than almond tho. I don’t mind the taste of coconut so all good with me.
it’s in like every other high protein bar that exists & it’s so brutal on digestion, I would take slightly better healthier sugars/ingredients over it tasting like a chocolate bar any day
