Nailing midlife nutrition: peanut butter & coconut cake bars

About time we did a treat edition on this blog. Don't go being all January about it, slags - it's good for you. This one is somewhere up on the god(dess) tier of treats. Is It Cake? Yes it is.

Just to recap something we often wang on about in our blogs, women in midlife and perimenopause need something in the region of 100–120g protein a day - the higher end if you're active and building your strength and muscle like the glorious FitBtch you are. And we (because it's 100% us as well) should be spreading this out through the day so dinner doesn't have to do all the heavy lifting. You're not The Rock so you can't nosh off five chicken breasts and be done with it (or even be okay).

You're going to need snacks.

Not want. NEED. Sure, you could have a boiled egg. ORRR you could make a batch of these sexy AS peanut butter bars.

FitBtch's Peanut Butter & Coconut Cake Bars

Serves 12 (probably less if you're a greedy bint like us. Adjust the nutrition info if so!)

You need:

A roughly 30 x 20 x 2cm rectangular baking dish, greased and lined with baking paper. Pro tip, scrunch up the baking paper to get it to lie flat in the tin.

Nutrition info:

Approx and will vary on slice size... see above!

Per serving:

Calories: 108

Protein: 3.7g

Fat: 7.8g

Ingredients:

100g smooth peanut butter

50g desiccated coconut

2 bananas, mashed

2 eggs

1 tsp baking powder

Method:

1. Preheat the oven to 180C.

2. Mash your bananas in a small mixing bowl, then add all the other ingredients to form a cake batter.

3. Pour the batter into the baking tray and bake in the oven for 15 minutes or until golden.

4. Allow to cool and divide into 12 equal slices. Try not to eat the entire tray immediately.
   

Top tip: Elevate this bake to maximum filth with 75g of dark chocolate chips scattered on top before baking.

Can be stored in an air tight container for up to 3 days, if you can keep them uneaten that long.

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