Happy Wednesday! Today I’m linking up with Annmarie from The Fit Foodie Mama, Jen from Pretty Little Grub, Michelle at Fruition Fitness and Nicole from Nicole from FitFul Focus for Wild Workout Wednesday!
We all know nutrition is very important for runners. It’s important that we fuel our bodies properly, with food with real ingredients. Sure, I’m never going to give up pizza or ice cream, but I reserve that for the weekends. During the week I try to eat pretty well and follow the 80/20 rule.
One problem I always deal with is HANGER. After a long run or a really hard strength training workout, I literally want to eat anything I can get my hands on. Every since I started training for the marathon, I’ve been trying to be more conscious of this. One thing I’ve been working very hard to do is to add more protein in my diet, especially after a long run. To help your muscles recover, you need protein. After my weekend long runs, I’ve been sure to eat 1-2 eggs with some sort of meat and a slice of toast (have to get some carbs in, lol). While this works for morning runs, not so much for my afternoon runs. I usually need something to eat after those runs, but not too much since I usually have dinner a few hours later. RXBAR help to solve this issue!
I first heard about RXBAR from Erica. She was kind enough to send me a few bars to try. Needless to say, I was hooked! About a week later I reached out to RXBAR and they kindly agreed to send me a few bars to sample, in addition to some to give away to my readers (see below for details on how to enter my giveaway)!
What is RXBAR?
RXBAR is gluten, dairy, and soy free.They use all natural ingredients, including non-GMO ingredients. They are not vegan, as they do contatin eggs. Here is the company’s motto:
“We believe that food should be simple and delicious without compromising nutrition. We believe that food should be consumed as nature intended. We set out to create a whole food protein bar we felt good about eating and that made us feel great after we ate it. And we’re sticking to it.”
The bars come in nine flavors – maple sea salt, chocolate sea salt, mint chocolate, blueberry, coconut chocolate, peanut butter, coffee chocolate, apple cinnamon and pumpkin spice.
Some of the yummy RXBAR flavors!
I’ve tried half of the flavors so far and my favorite has been the coconut chocolate – I’m a sucker for anything coconut! What I love about these bars is that they each have 12 grams of protein and they help keep me full without that bloated feeling. It’s a great way to re-fuel after a run as well.
Two essentials for refuel after a run
If all of this sounds good to you, enter below for your chance to win a 12-pack variety box of RXBARs!
I’m linking up with Erica and Smitha for their Wednesday Giveaway Roundup!
Giveaway ends on September 1st – GOOD LUCK!
yum! i’d love to try the maple
I have yet to try that one, but I know it’s probably delicious!
My husband loves the Blueberry RX bars. I would love to try any of the chocolate flavors.
You would really like the chocolate flavors – they are all super yummy!
I’ve heard about these before and so want to test them out. I live in a small town and can’t find any of these on the shelves at my local stores. (But of course I can only find 2 flavors of larabar in my town… And Nuun is seriously unheard of.) The chocolate sea salt and the chocolate coconut RXBar sound bomb!
The chocolate coconut is my favorite, but the choc sea salt is yummy too!
If you try the bars and you like them, I know you can order them from the RXBAR website.
I LOVE RX bars. I’m actually going to try to create my own this weekend. The Chocolate Coffee one is … MWAH!
That’s awesome that you are going to try to recreate them, can’t wait to hear how it goes!
I can’t wait to try Maple Sea Salt. I have it just haven’t tried them yet! 🙂 My fave is Chocolate Sea Salt!
Me too! I still have to try Blueberry, Pumpkin Spuce and Maple Sea Salt.
The cashew one sounds yummy
It’s delicious!
I love the maple sea salt.
I still have to try that one but I’m sure it’s going to be awesome!
I’m looking forward to fall…the pumpkin spice flavor sounds great.
Pretty soon we will see pumpkin spice everything lol
I love RX Bars!!!
I could kick myself for waiting so long to try them!
I’d love to try the blueberry flavor. Thanks for offering the giveaway!
You’re welcome! Good Luck in the giveaway!
I’ve heard great things about RX Bars. I’d totally be down to try the coffee chocolate! 🙂
That’s one of my favorite flavors! 🙂
I would like to try the peanut butter.
Great choice!
Oh my gosh…these sound so good! Chocolate Sea Salt, Coconut Chocolate, Pumpkin Spice, Apple Cinnamon, and Blueberry sound yummy!
I still need to try the Blueberry, but I have loved all the flavors I tried so far!
I would like to try the coconut chocolate, too. I love coconut.
Me too, and this bar has a nice coconut flavor!
I want to try the coffee chocolate flavor!
That’s one of my favs!
I’ve wanted to try these for awhile now!
Good Luck in the giveaway!
The apple cinnamon and pumpkin spice sound so good – I’m ready for fall flavors!
I couldn’t agree more – bring on all the Fall food and cooler weather!
These bars sound great! I’d love to try the mint 🙂
The mint chocolate is tasty!
Im most excited for the coconut chocolate!! Yummo!!
That’s my fav!
Totally want to try apple cinnamon or pumpkin spice!!! Obviously I’m ready for fall!
Me too Erica! I cannot wait for cooler temps.
I’d love to try the blueberry flavor.
I have to try that one but I have a feeling it will be good!
So happy I caught this! I am obsessed with RX Bars since I started my little whole 30/Paleo endeavor! I would love to try all the flavors! Thanks for linking this up!
Hi Michelle! Thanks for stopping by and good luck in the giveaway!
I love blueberries so the Blueberry flavor would be my first pick. Thank you so much.
I think the blueberry one will be great!
The coffee chocolate sounds delish.
That’s a really good one!
Maple Sea Salt sounds amazing to me.
I have yet to try it but it just sounds so yummy!
I would really love to try the Maple Sea Salt!
Great choice – good luck with the giveaway!
I want to try the peanut butter…it’s my favorite flavor in pretty much every type of bar I’ve tried.
You can never really go wrong with peanut butter!
Chocolate sea salt sounds so good to me – I would want to start there then try them ALL!
Thats a great flavor!
I’m most excited to try the Coconut Chocolate:)
Great choice!
Maple Sea Salt sounds divine! What a lovely combo!
It does sound delicious!
I see these at one of the food trucks that frequents my job campus, I’ve considered trying the chocolate sea salt one. So many yummy sounding flavors!
Thats awesome that the food trucks sells them!
Maple Sea Salt & Mint Chocolate
Great choices
Chocolate sea salt and the Coconut Chocolate both really appeal to me.
Those flavors are both really good!!
Ooh I haven’t tried the mint chocolate flavor yet-that sounds so yummy . The coffee chocolate bar is amazing!
The mint chocolate is pretty good too!
Mint chocolate!
Great choice!
maple sea salt
Chocolate Sea Salt!!!! Yum.
Maple sounds so good!
Maple sounds amazing! I love Rx Bars, the coconut cacao is my current favorite 🙂
The maple is pretty good – I tried it on Saturday!
I’ve been seeing these all over the internet but haven’t found them in stores just yet. would love to try, esp the mint chocolate one!
Maple Sea Salt sounds fantastic.
I’m withyou, put coconut in front of me and I am all in. Love it with chocolate and especially with peanut butter. I really like having bars in the house at all times.
Coffee chocolate…I’m intrigued!
The Coconut Chocolate sounds this best.
I would love the peanut butter flavor.
I’ve been dying to try Maple Sea Salt! Thanks for the chance to win!!!