Raw Zucchini Bars

Crust

• 1 cup finely ground organic walnuts
• 3 tbs. organic ground flax meal
• 3 tbs. Organic butter flavored coconut oil
• 1/2 tsp organic ground cinnamon

Mix all ingredients together well, especially paying attention to the coconut butter so there are no chunks. Pat down firmly into a square baking dish. (I used the Pampered Chef stone, square pan).

Filling

• 2 cups grated zucchini (squeeze some of the liquid out).
• 8 organic dates no pits!
• 1/2 cup finely ground organic raw pecans
• 1/3 cup finely ground raw organic pumpkin seeds
• 1/2 tbs. Simply Organic cinnamon
• 3 tbs. raw organic almond butter
• 1 cup chopped dried apricots (my favorite Made in Nature).
• 1 vanilla bean (slit the bean down the middle and scrape out the black seeds).
• 1 tsp Simply Organic lemon flavor

Grind up the dates to make a paste. Mix in lemon flavor. Add all the rest of the ingredients. Spread on top of the crust in the square baking pan. Keep these bars in the freezer. They will cut better and will never freeze solid because of all the nut oils.

RAW CARROT BARS

*Use 1 cup dried cranberries in place of apricots

PRODUCTS I used:

Terrasoul pecans and walnuts and dates (Terrasoul.com, Amazon, Walmart)

Made in nature apricots (madeinnature.com, iHerb, Amazon, Walmart)

Go Raw Pumpkin Seeds (GoRaw.com, iHerb, Thrive Market)

MaraNatha (Maranathafoods.com, iHerb, Amazon)

Simply Organic (simplyorganic.com, iHerb, Thrive Market, Amazon)

Eden Cranberries (Eden foods.com, iHerb, Vitacost, Amazon)