In the event you’ve been studying my weblog for awhile, you understand that I completely love mountain climbing. So now that we’re properly into mountain climbing season (although actually I like to hike year-round if I can!), I needed to share a few of my favourite do-it-yourself mountain climbing snacks!
From granola bars to nutritious baked items and no-bake vitality bites, these make-ahead snacks are good for conserving you fueled up to your outside adventures. 🙂
Straightforward & Wholesome Climbing Snacks
Simply transportable, protein and carb-rich snacks are the best way to go for conserving your vitality up whereas mountain climbing! Nuts, nut butters, and eggs are all nice components for including protein to snacks, and fruit and oats are wonderful carbs to have within the combine for some regular vitality.
Whether or not you’re within the temper for one thing candy or savory, I’m sharing a number of choices to select from beneath.
Basic Climbing Snacks: Granola Bars
Granola bars are a mountain climbing staple, however these aren’t your common granola bars – they’re full of vitamins that offers you some critical endurance!
With protein powder, nuts, seeds, peanut butter, and eggs, they’ve bought loads of protein to maintain you going. Dried fruit, shredded coconut, and maple syrup add sweetness, some carbohydrate vitality, and extra taste!
Craving one thing a bit totally different? Make these candy and savory curry granola bars!
Oats, brown rice cereal, peanut butter, honey, coconut, dried mango, pistachios, cashews, and extra come collectively for a flavorful, nutritious snack. These are an previous fave – I must make them once more quickly!
These reader favourite straightforward no-bake granola bars are filled with goodness like nuts, seeds, and oats for a basic, protein-packed mountain climbing snack.
They’re actually versatile, too. You’ll be able to simply change up the components and use your favourite kind of seeds, dried fruit, or perhaps a totally different kind of nut butter.
Sun-Dried Tomato Pizza Granola Bar
Calling all pizza lovers: these savory, tacky granola bars are a enjoyable distinctive granola bar that style quite a bit like pizza!
They characteristic sun-dried tomatoes, parmesan cheese, white cheddar cheese, sunflower & pumpkin seeds, and extra in transportable bar type. Excellent for on-the-go actions!
Protein Balls & Power Bites
Peanut Butter Bliss Balls (No Bake)
These little bliss balls are full of all the good things: peanut butter, oats, chia seeds, dried cranberries, and honey for sweetness. (You’ll be able to simply swap out the cranberries to your favourite dried fruit, if you need.)
They’re wholesome, tasty, and simply 5 components. Plus, there’s no baking required – you don’t even want a meals processor!
Vanilla Protein Balls with Figs
Ever had Fig Newtons? These are a simple, do-it-yourself, no bake model with much less sugar however scrumptious style!
Made with dried figs, almonds, walnuts, dried flaxseed, and vanilla extract, they’re tremendous easy and simple to whip up earlier than a hike.
Chocolate Bliss Balls with Cashews
These chocolatey, nutty snack balls will fulfill your candy tooth – with out all of the sugar!
They’re sweetened with dates and cocoa powder, with protein from cashews and further taste from shredded coconut.
No Bake Turmeric Ginger Energy Balls
These turmeric ginger vitality bites are little nutritious powerhouses! Each turmeric and ginger are identified for his or her anti-inflammatory advantages, which makes them good for mountain climbing gasoline.
They’re a bit candy and a bit spicy, with an entire lot of taste!
Biting into these cherry almond snack bites is like biting into a bit of tart cherry pie.
Walnuts and almonds give these vitality balls that buttery pie crust taste, and dried tart cherries add sweetness (and maintain them collectively)!
No Bake Chocolate Coconut Date Balls
Much like my chocolate cashew bliss balls, these vitality balls are date-sweetened, however they characteristic almonds as an alternative of cashews! It’s a scrumptious mixture, and an excellent straightforward snack to make.
Simply throw collectively a batch, toss them in a bag or container, and produce them alongside in your hike to munch on!
Muffins & Baked Items
Banana Blueberry Oatmeal Muffins
These tasty muffins are full of all the good things: blueberries, banana, walnuts, oats, floor flax, almond butter, and a hidden veggie (cauliflower – however you gained’t even discover it)!
They’re sweetened with maple syrup and ripe bananas, and so they’re straightforward to pack in your mountain climbing backpack. Want I say extra? 🙂
Savory Cheddar & Hard Boiled Egg Muffins
In the event you’re searching for a satisfying, savory snack with loads of protein to maintain you energized, strive these herb and cheddar muffins! They’re additional enjoyable as a result of they’ve a hard-boiled egg hidden inside. 🙂
These do have to be stored chilled, since there’s a hard-boiled egg inside, so you’ll want to carry an ice pack.
Vegan Zucchini Muffins with Lemon
These lemon zucchini muffins are full of summery taste, plus they occur to be vegan – so everybody can get pleasure from them!
They’re made with nutritious components like complete wheat pastry flour, chopped walnuts, and unsweetened applesauce. These muffins had been one of many very first recipes I posted on my weblog, and have been a reader favorite ever since!
Peanut butter and bananas are a scrumptious mixture, so why not bake them collectively in a filling, evenly candy bread? The entire wheat pastry flour and oats present loads of complete grains to maintain you energized.
These moist muffins are studded with juicy bits of peach for an excellent summery baked snack!
They’re vegan, dairy free, and gluten free (made with oat flour and almond flour), however you gained’t even discover that they’re wholesome as a result of they’re so dang tasty. 🙂
Whole Wheat Carrot Cake Muffins (Vegan)
Heat spices, walnuts, raisins, carrots, applesauce and extra goodness make up these cozy carrot cake-inspired muffins!
They’re lots candy – with out the necessity for a lot added sugar – and are a wonderful snack to carry together with you while you’re on the go.
Healthy Pumpkin Muffins with Applesauce
Right here’s one other fall-inspired muffin recipe that may be loved any time of yr! These pumpkin spice muffins have a stunning delicate and moist texture, due to the applesauce and Greek yogurt.
It’s also possible to simply bake these as a bread as an alternative, if that’s extra your factor!
Extra Savory Climbing Snacks
I didn’t wish to omit one in every of my favourite savory snacks: kale chips! These are baked within the oven and are available out deliciously crispy and filled with taste.
This recipe options 4 totally different taste variations to strive, too: lemon garlic, Every thing Bagel, spicy nacho, and ranch.
Extra Candy Snacks
Healthy Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies
I completely love having these little energy cookies readily available!
With protein, fiber, and wholesome fat – plus sweetness from maple syrup and raisins – they’re the proper candy snack for mountain climbing. Did I point out they occur to be vegan and gluten free?!
Stuffed Dates with Peanut Butter
In the event you solely have a couple of minutes to throw collectively a mountain climbing snack, these peanut butter stuffed dates are good! You solely want 3 components, and there’s no baking or prep required, particularly in case you purchase pre-pitted dates.
You should use any nut butter you want, too: almond butter, cashew butter, sunbutter – all work nice!
Calling all darkish chocolate lovers: these baked quinoa bars characteristic darkish chocolate chips for a decadent-tasting – however nutritious – candy snack!
These bars are gluten free (made with quinoa and chickpea flour), and have the proper quantity of sweetness with out going overboard. Plus, you possibly can’t beat that delicate and gooey texture. 🙂
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Nevertheless you select to gasoline up, I hope you get pleasure from these do-it-yourself mountain climbing snacks!
Do you will have a favourite snack to prep for lengthy hikes? Let me know within the feedback!
