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Cookie Dough Bars -- Yummy and Delicious Zone Balance

Cookie dough bars are deliberately made to appeal to our childish memories and tastes.

I remember my mother making chocolate chip cookies. I don't think she started from scratch. I guess she had some kind of mix, but would add some flour and milk and eggs and of course a package of chocolate chips. Then she'd use a mixer to beat it all together.

Not a blender, a mixer. It had two metallic round constructs that were placed into the mixing bowl, and then a small electric motors spun them around at high speed, and the food was mixed.

Quite a feat for women who could remember seeing their mothers spend a long time mixing food up by hand and a fork or spoon, developing their biceps. Just one of the time-saving devices of the modern age designed to free up the time of the modern housewife.

Anyway, after it was done, my mother would take the contents of the mixing bowl and drop it into a sheet of tin, making them round for baking into chocolate chip cookies.

It was my job to clean up the mixer by eating the dough that clung to the mixer tines.

Yes, it tasted great and, unfortunately, helped contribute to my sweet tooth which jacked up my insulin levels and took me out of the Zone, though I was too young to notice or care.

So in a way the cookie dough balance bars are very clever. Eat one and you enter or remain in the Zone, but you are taken back to childhood days in your imagination and get the pleased childish feeling of eating lots of sugar, even though your insulin level remains in the Zone.

This flavor is described as a nutrition energy bar/ high protein. It has a net weight of 1.76 oz which is 50 g. And a low glycemic index, though the exact figure is not given. And it's 40/30/30 nutrition.

Of course this refers to the Zone advocated levels of 40% carbohydrates, 30% protein and 30% fat. It has zero trans fat. It contains 200 calories.

The largest ingredient is a protein blend of soy protein siolate, whey protein isolate, partially hydroluzed casein and whey, calcium casseinate, and casein. They're sweetened with both fructose and corn syrup.

It consists of an inside core which is chewy and contains pieces of real cookies. It's covered by a layer of chocolate. It has a solid feeling, unlike some balance zone bars which seem to be make from crisped rice.

Some food companies make cookie bars which are not balance, but basically another form of candy or snack food.

Some can argue that balance nutrition bars are not as good as eating real food, and I would agree with that. And if I had the time I'd eat only meals of regular food.

But I don't have the time, and neither do most Americans.

So eating cookie dough bars and other balance and zone favorable bars can help us to stay in the Zone no matter how busy we are.

They're not perfect, but they've convenient, affordable and much healthier than candy bars or other fast food.