Snacks · Protein snacks & bites
No-bake energy balls
The ten-minute lunchbox staple: oats, peanut butter, honey and dark chocolate rolled into golf balls. No oven, one bowl, and they keep for two weeks.
- Time
- 10 min (10 prep + 0 cook)
- Servings
- 16
- Per serving
- 132 kcal
- Protein
- 4 g
Ingredients
- 2 cups oatmeal160 g
- 1/2 cup peanut butter130 g
- 1/4 cup honey85 g
- 2 tbsp chia seeds20 g
- 1/3 cup dark chocolate 70-85%, chopped small50 g
- 1 tsp vanilla extract4 g
- a pinch salt1 g
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Steps
- Stir everything into a stiff dough. If it won't hold a pinch, a spoon more peanut butter; if it's sticky, more oats.
- Chill 15 minutes — cold dough rolls clean.
- Roll into 16 balls. Fridge in a jar, two weeks; freezer, three months.
Are these actually a healthy snack?
They're honest fuel, not a free food: peanut butter and honey make each ball about 120 calories, most of it fat and sugar — that's why they work before a long run and disappear at desks. The score tells the density story; portion is the lever.
Why this score
engineered against fullnessDense calories with little protein, volume or fiber to fill you up.
Three routes to fullness — one is enough
What pulls it down
Computed on the finished dish, not an average of the parts: 2105 kcal goes into the pot, 450 g of ingredients comes out as ~480 g of food → 439 kcal per 100 g. Cooking moves water, and energy density is the score's biggest lever — so we show the math. Full formula here.
Per
- Calories
- 439
- Protein
- (11%)
- 12 g
- Fat
- (44%)
- 21 g
- Carbohydrates
- (45%)
- 50 g
- of which sugar
- 20 g
- Fiber
- 8 g
- Sodium
- 283 mg
Percentages are the share of calories from each macronutrient.
Computed from the ingredients' USDA data — nothing typed by hand. Every number is traceable, every score recomputable.
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Photo: AI-generated. Nutrition and score are computed from the ingredients with the published formula — this recipe hasn't been kitchen-tested by us yet.