What is the best healthy and filling meal replacement bar?

[Reggs]

I dont like going out for lunch at work because of traffic, the lunch rush, and too few healthy options. I want to start taking a meal replacement bar to work and just walk off somewhere and read. I want something filling but low cal so I can feel ok eating more at dinner when I know I can really appreciate a meal.

Any recs?

 

[giraffe lookout]

I really like these

They come in two sizes and two flavors. I usually pack a banana and an apple to eat during the day too if I happen to be going this route.

 

[ltb]

^ these are delicious.
prefer the cookies and cream or pb crunch ones

 

[antirabbit]

Originally Posted by giraffe lookout

I really like these

They come in two sizes and two flavors. I usually pack a banana and an apple to eat during the day too if I happen to be going this route.

+1

 

[erk]

Ha, first post and completely unrelated to style.

Why not eat real food? A bag of carrots and a hard boiled egg can be very filling and nutritious. If you insist on a bar, Larabar. Look at the list of ingredients for the flavor cashew cookie - cashews, dates, salt. The other flavors are similarly minimalist.

The easiest way to make it to dinner with no lunch is to have a no-carb breakfast. Carbs drive hunger.

 

[SField]

I like the Cliff Builder Bar... peanut butter flavor. Tastes very good.

 

[Rambo]

Originally Posted by giraffe lookout

I really like these

They come in two sizes and two flavors. I usually pack a banana and an apple to eat during the day too if I happen to be going this route.
Good lord, what is in this ****: INGREDIENTS: SUPREME PROTEINÂ

BLEND 30g: (WHEY PROTEIN ISOLATE, WHEY PROTEIN CONCENTRATE, MILK PROTEIN ISOLATE), CHOCOLATE COATING (WHEY PROTEIN CONCENTRATE, PALM KERNEL OIL, MALTITOL, COCOA POWDER, SUGAR, SOY LECITHIN [AN EMULSIFIER], VANILLIN), CARAMEL LAYER (MALTITOL, SWEETENED CONDENSED MILK, HYDROGENATED COCONUT OIL, BUTTER [SALTED], CORN STARCH, VANILLA EXTRACT, CARAMEL COLOR), VEGETABLE GLYCERINE, WATER, PROTEIN CRISPS (ISOLATED SOY PROTEIN, TAPIOCA STARCH, SALT), SOY PROTEIN ISOLATE, PEANUT BUTTER (PEANUTS, SALT), PEANUT FLOUR, HYDROLYZED COLLAGEN, PEANUTS, PALM KERNEL OIL, SOY LECITHIN (AN EMULSIFIER), VITAMIN MIX (DICALCIUM PHOSPHATE, MAGNESIUM PHOSPHATE, DL-ALPHA-TOCOPHEROL ACETATE, ASCORBIC ACID, COPPER GLUCONATE, NIACINAMIDE, VITAMIN A PALMITATE, FERRIC ORTHOPHOSPHATE, BIOTIN, ZINC OXIDE, PYRIDOXINE HYDROCHLORIDE, CYANOCOBALAMIN, FOLIC ACID, MANGANESE SULFATE, CALCIUM D-PANTOTHENATE, RIBOFLAVIN, SODIUM SELENITE, THIAMINE MONONITRATE), FLAX SEED OIL, SALT, POTASSIUM SORBATE (A PRESERVATIVE).

 

[gort]

Just take a can of tuna to work. All of those bars are filled with junk anyways.

 

[Scrumhalf]

Originally Posted by Rambo

Good lord, what is in this ****:


It is a veritable cornucopia of innovative molecules - a testament to human ingenuity in the field of nutritional chemistry.

 

[Lagrangian]

Don't eat lunch.

 

[Cacatfish]

Id say clif bars most resemble real food of the ones that I have tried.
The ingredients reflect this in mostly being recognizable words.
They sit pretty well with me where most other "sport bars" feel like I am trying to digest a brick.

 

[Reggs]

I tracked this down:

They had them at my grocery but discontinued them. They are extrememly filling, not too sweet, and 440 Cal at 3.75 Oz a bar.

Ingredients: Malted corn and barley, nonfat milk, soy flour, honey, almonds, raisins, oats, soy oil, sunflower seeds, cocoa, wheat bran, carob.

http://www.amazon.com/Bear-Valley-Pe...u-rd_dp_img_T2

 

[Unbreakable]

Youbars.com

Haven't tried them yet, but Ive heard good things. You choose your own ingredients. Maybe on the pricey side, but worth a look.

 

[Nil]

Originally Posted by gort

Just take a can of tuna to work. All of those bars are filled with junk anyways.

+1 Can of tuna (or sardines), some vegetables and a pita. Bam.

The only time I eat those meal replacements bars is when I'm skiing or hiking and weight is a concern.

 

[SD1]

Originally Posted by erk

If you insist on a bar, Larabar. Look at the list of ingredients for the flavor cashew cookie - cashews, dates, salt. The other flavors are similarly minimalist.

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Larabars are great and you can make them from home pretty easily:


http://trixareforkids.wordpress.com/...-them-at-home/