Snacking Saturday; A Natural Approach

Mulebar may not be the most attractive of names, but in the spirit of not judging a book by it’s cover, I  was excited when this box of samples for review dropped through my letter box at the end of last week.

Dedicated to 100% Natural (and tasty) Ingredients, Mulebar are the makers of energy providing bars perfect for work, play and everything in between.

You can’t help but notice these bars, the packaging is BOLD! I received a selection of the original fuel bars; in strudel (organic apple and cinnamon), summer pudding (raspberry, cranberry and blackcurrant), hunza nut (fairtrade organic apricot and walnut), chocolate fig fiesta (take a guess!) and pina colada (pineapple, coconut and goji berry).

These bars aren’t light on the calorie front, ranging from around 190, through to just over 250 but they are so energy dense and good for you…not to mention delicious that I can’t fault them. Mule bars have been associated with top athletes; which I am not, but they fit perfectly in to my lifestyle too, a portable and nutritionally sound snack for long afternoons at work or a hard day browsing the shops.

My favourite?

Chocolate + figs = two of my favourite things combined! Pina Colada was a close runner up!

Also in the box were the re-fuel recovery bars. As previously mentioned, I am no athlete, or particularly active so I can’t vouch for the effectiveness of these, but with impressive amounts of protein and really, really gorgeous flavours; Chocolate Banana and Chocolate Date these made a great pre-bed snack on my weight gain mission, and a refreshing change to artificial tasting protein bars I have tried in the past!

Also included were samples of the NEW Kicks which I haven’t tried. These I feel really are for the sporty among us and for that reason, if anyone here feels they would benefit from these then please leave a comment on this post and I will draw a recipient on Wednesday using random.org.

Just make sure you leave a way for me to contact you!

You’ll find Mule products on their website, which also has a handy list of online and actual shop stockists.

Anyone here tried Mule bars before? What did you think? I’m really  curious to track down and try the liquorice flavour bar!

What are your favourite nutritionally dense (and er, calorie dense) snacks? Girl needs ideas!

Have a good weekend!
Many thanks to Mule for the samples. I love you!
xxx

ALSO, big exciting news for UK Bloggers

The genius that is Hayles (a.k.a. my London travelling companion, fellow gin and wasabi pea lover and all round good egg) has created the…

UK BLOGGERS MAP

Basically, if you are a blogger and are in the UK, add yourself to this wonder. Don’t question it. Just do it.

17 comments for “Snacking Saturday; A Natural Approach

  1. Those bars sound yummy.

    X x

  2. sounds like a great range of flavours, yum.

  3. oh I love mule bars, I had them loads on my long cycle rides. They are so good as contain a mixture of fast and slow releasing carbohydrates and also protein for muscle repair so are the perfect all round bar lol I sound like a sales rep. my fav was the apple strudel flavor. I would so love to try those energy gels! you know who i am hehe. xx

  4. Chocolate and fig? I am all over it. That is all.

  5. I would blatently just eat the fuel ones first thing in the morning to imitiate the duracell bunny! But would be useful for the gym!

  6. I love the packaging and the flavours sound really interesting! A uk bloggers map sounds great too, although we Wardrobe ladies are a bit all over the place, i don’t know where I’d put us on the map!

    Bhav x

  7. Oh arse. I was well excited to try the strudel ones and then went to check the ingredients on the website and they’ve whacked a load of whey powder in them. Let’s chalk that up as another not-for-us-poor-lactose-intolerant-types one then.

  8. My brother uses Mulebars and he’s a triathlete… However I have been known to borrow them and they are definitely yummy!

    xo

  9. Ohh i really want to try these bars !! Will head over to that map now!

  10. Ooh, yum – I love bars like these. x

  11. Never seen them here unfortunately. They sound delicious though and if I ever see them I’ll try them for sure!

  12. I really want to try these. Chocolate and fig sounds like an amazing combo. x

  13. Nice post;) Have a great weekend!

  14. Mmm, they sound lovely. I rather enjoy figs, so to add chocolate to the mix? Om nom nom!

    Nat x

  15. Mmm these sound so yummy just sssooo.high in calories but they are for giving you energy xx

  16. We always take these on cycling expeditions- they are really good energy boosters when you are flagging at the 30mile mark! I don’t like banana flavoured things but I do like the banana ones. I have to say fig and banana sounds horrific but then I have a thing about not mixing chocolate and fruit!
    I’d appreciate some energy gels for our Northumbrian cycling expeditions so please count me in that giveaway!

  17. Your style is cute.

    Piksty 🙂
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