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Posted 8/31/2014 11:09 PM (GMT 0)
Hi all,
Anybody eat nutrition bars? I am looking for a way to get my vitamins during the day and not worry about eating a large meal. I don't really eat a whole lot for lunch while I am at work to begin with, so this bar essentially will be my lunch.

I am partial to anything chocolate, so any recommendations would be helpful. Thanks!
Posted 9/13/2014 2:07 AM (GMT 0)
I have relied on energy bars for travel & emergency situations when I wasn't sure I could find good food for me. You have to be careful because they are often loaded with refined sugar. I usually use only use Lara bars. They are mostly dates and nuts, and you can get some great flavors, even chocolate. During the first year of my UC I was very nutrition-deprived so I supplemented with Emergen-C which is a packet with lots of vitamins that you dissolve in water. There are different fruit flavors, and because it's powdered, it's very portable. I mix it with ice water. In fact, I just had one today, because I'm having a little flare, and no appetite. You can get the Lara bars in Whole Foods and Trader Joes, and other health food stores. You can get the Emergen-c lots of places - probably most drug stores and many discount stores. Good luck
Posted 9/13/2014 9:56 AM (GMT 0)
Yeah, the larabars are pretty good. Dense with good stuff instead of dense synthetic stuff. You can get them about anywhere now. Most all the -mart stores carry them, kroger....etc. Just go to their website and you can get any nutritional info you want. It's pretty simple stuff. Only bar I would sell out of my office. It's pretty common sense. Read the actual ingredients instead of the nutrition facts. I don't care what the nutrition facts say, I want to know what I am eating.

Post Edited (Dr-A) : 9/13/2014 1:31:16 PM (GMT-6)

Posted 9/13/2014 2:16 PM (GMT 0)
As other have stated, be careful with these "energy bars". They claim to be good for you be in fact many are not. I couldn't give you a recommendation but just be careful. Are you taking some sort of multi-vitamin? They may help too.
Posted 9/13/2014 3:57 PM (GMT 0)
There is a lot of trickery out there. Many people are duped into eating something that is supposed to be healthy by clever and deceptive marketing. It happens in everything. Probably the most glaring example is something that says it is fat free but then has loads of sugar in it. Many things advertised as being gluten free have so much junk in them they could double as pig feed. The list is endless.
Posted 9/13/2014 8:21 PM (GMT 0)
My GI had me drinking boost shakes twice a day for the protein and nutritional values. I loved the strawberry and chocolate ones.
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