{"id":51,"date":"2013-01-27T16:47:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-27T16:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shebakeshere.com\/2013\/01\/chocolate-chip-lentil-oatmeal-bars.html"},"modified":"2017-02-28T21:11:31","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T02:11:31","slug":"chocolate-chip-lentil-oatmeal-bars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shebakeshere.com\/2013\/01\/chocolate-chip-lentil-oatmeal-bars.html","title":{"rendered":"Chocolate Chip Lentil Oatmeal Bars"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Does anyone remember the last time<\/a> I tried to make healthy bars? Yes, the photos were not the best, but the most embarrassing thing about that post was that the bars I made didn’t even fill up the whole pan. Who wants a recipe to make only half a pan of bars? Why, past Jessica, why did that even make it on the blog in the first place?<\/p>\n

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However, it’s old posts like this that I keep around as proof of how much things have changed since the beginning of She Bakes Here. At first, I would just post anything that I felt like baking that week and I would take maybe 10 minutes out of my evening, usually after work, to take photos and upload them. A lot of my favourite recipes were posted during the first year, but there were probably a lot that I would cringe at if I had to go back and shift through it all.<\/p>\n

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Starting in 2012, I realized that if I wanted to keep doing this, I had to step it up a bit. I traded my point and shoot for a DSLR camera and started to schedule my baking on weekends so I could take photos during the day rather than at night. If I had a disaster with a recipe, I started to work through it and wouldn’t post it unless I was satisfied and it passed my taste-testers approval (mostly Trevor).<\/p>\n

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I still have a long way to go and a lot more to learn, but it’s sometimes nice to look back and see where it all first started. This month marked the 2nd anniversary\/birthday of She Bakes Here (first post here<\/a>) and in a typical fashion, I forgot to do anything really special for it. Instead, I celebrated by reading some cringe-worthy blog posts from 2011 and enjoyed these delicious chocolate chip lentil oatmeal bars. Made with pureed red lentils, oats, ground flax, maple syrup, chia seeds and chocolate chips, these bars are the perfect balance of sweetness and energy-bursting goodness to get you through your day.<\/p>\n

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Yield:<\/strong> One 8x8 pan<\/span><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n

Chocolate Chip Lentil Oatmeal Bars<\/span><\/h2>\r\n\r\n
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Ingredients:<\/h3>\r\n