One of The Best Healthy Snacks for Athletes: No-Bake Peanut Butter Protein Balls!

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When after-school activities follow right after school pick-up, you know the last thing you will want to pass your young athlete is a sugar-loaded donut. Healthy snacks for athletes don’t have to be boring. 

Here are some preferred snacks for athletes: 

• Nuts
• Nut bars
• Dried fruit
• Apple slices with peanut butter
• Bananas
• Fruit bowls
• Whole-grain crackers with hummus or cheese

These are the best snacks for athletes and are easy to pick up at any grocery store.

So skip that fast-food drive-through. 

If your child craves something different, and you have a few minutes before heading out the door, consider giving them my kids’ favorite healthy snack for athletes.

One of The Best Healthy Snacks for Athletes: My No-Bake, Peanut Butter Protein Balls!

WHY Peanut Butter Protein Balls?

This power snack is a family favorite. (My husband even requested we make a batch for our next road trip!)

Peanut butter is a great source of protein, is rich in heart-healthy fats, and is a well-balanced energy source.

It is one of those good snacks for athletes as it’s known to be one delicious way to encourage the building and repair of muscles.  

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These are perfect for the kids to snack on before soccer practice, or as energy snacks for athletes on your teams during one of those long sport matches.

The last thing you need is to have your child munch on mindless calories.

This is good.

What makes these Peanut Butter Protein Balls even better is that they’re no-bake!

Add your choice of peanut butter to a marriage of assorted honey roasted nuts, semi-dark chocolate chips, steel-cut oats, honey, and shredded coconut, 

and you have a sure-fire winner!

My son loves making these as a post-school snack.

Feel free to swap RX Nut Butter flavors in your Power Balls and see which one your young athlete likes the best.

You can also use any other peanut butter brand too.

I just really like the RX Nut Butter Honey Cinnamon Flavor.

Pin this recipe to your favorite board and share this with families with active athletes at home, or even away at college.

Here’s the recipe:

No Bake Peanut Butter Protein Balls Recipe - The Best After School Power Snack for Athletes

Yield: 10

Prep Time: 10 minutes

Total Time: 10 minutes

Easy no bake peanut butter protein balls- a favorite best energy snack, and one of our favorite healthy snacks for athletes

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Ingredients

• 1/2 cup peanut butter
• 1 cup steel-cut oats
• 1/4 cup honey
• 1/2 cup regular or honey roasted cashews, almonds, walnuts
• 1/4 cup semi-sweet dark chocolate chips
• 1/4 cup shredded coconut (dried)

Instructions

Place all the ingredients in a bowl and mix till combined.

Place a sheet of wax paper on a plate and set aside.

Take 2 tbsps of the mixture and roll approximately 2 inch sized balls.

Place the ball on the wax paper.

Continue forming balls till the mixture is all used up. (You should be able to make 9-10 balls.

Serve as is or refrigerate for about an hour, to serve chilled.

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