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Cottage Cheese Breakfast Bars with lemon and berries! These healthy breakfast bars are baked, filled with delicious flavors, higher protein and are simple to make. A great breakfast recipe to meal prep ahead of time and only 100 calories!
You are going to love these healthy breakfast bars! Many of my recipe creations are a result of a problem I’m trying to solve for my weight loss clients.
A lot of times I solve those problems while I’m at the gym or out walking. While I was planning a custom meal plan for a client, I realized I have very few easy, higher protein, every day kind of breakfast bars.
These 100 calorie lemon blueberry breakfast bars were inspired by my healthy cottage cheese pancakes. So many people have told me they loved them and of course, I love them. Heck, I meal prep them almost every week. Then I realized why not turn that concept into a delicious, protein packed breakfast bar? That’s just what I did!
Made with oats, chia seeds, eggs, cottage cheese, cinnamon, lemon and berries they’re seriously the easiest and most delicious breakfast bar you’ll ever make.
I mean I love a good granola bar, but they’re expensive and they don’t always have enough protein and fiber. Two things you need to manage you weight! Not to mention you have to be a label inspector to ensure there’s no funky ingredients.
These have simple, real food ingredients and are quick to make. You’ll need a good blender or food processor to blend the ingredients together smooth. Then all you do is bake!
When I make my berry lemon breakfast bars, I store half the batch in the freezer (they freeze really well) and the rest in the fridge. They make the perfect breakfast or snack, and they’re only 100 calories!
Keep in mind, calories don’t matter as much as getting real foods, higher protein and fiber in your diet. It’s a balance! Capeesh? Now let’s bake!
Cottage Cheese Breakfast Bars
Ingredients
- 1 egg, room temperature
- 1 cup cottage cheese
- 1 cup unsweetened almond milk, or milk of choice
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 1 1/2 cups Gluten Free rolled oats, or regular rolled oats
- 2 tablespoons coconut sugar, or sugar of choice
- 1 tablespoon chia seeds
- 1/2 cup raspberries
- 2/3 cup blackberries
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 375 F. Prepare an 8×8 baking pan with parchment paper. Set aside.
- Place all ingredients except the berries into a food processor or blender and blend until smooth.
- Transfer to a large mixing bowl and stir in the raspberries and blackberries. Pour the batter into the prepared baking pan and spread into an even layer.
- Bake uncovered 35-40 minutes or until slightly brown and firm. Remove the pan from the oven and cool in the pan 10 minutes before slicing into 9 bars.
Notes
- Before baking, I recommend testing the recipe. Depending on your tastebuds, you may or may not want to add a bit more sweetener to your breakfast bars!
- Store in the refrigerator up to 10 days or in the freezer up to 60 days.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
I’m allergic to chia seeds, can I add something else to maintain the protein or just leave out
Chia seeds are a fat source and do not have that much protein. They help to hold the bars together. I would try ground flax meal instead.
The texture was perfect but they weren’t sweet enuf for me. Next time I’ll add more coconut sugar. I’m not into sweets either but these just had no real flavor.
If the berries are not ripe, then it will not be sweet. Most of the sweetness should come from the berries and cinnamon. For me, the sweetness is perfect. But everyone is different and you can definitely adjust the batter to the level of sweetness you prefer.
We LOVED these! Not overly sweet so I recommend if you have a sweet tooth that you add a little more sugar. Ours firmed up after letting them sit a bit from baking. Great healthy treat we will make over and over again.
Easy to make, I didn’t have cottage cheese so I used low fat Greek yogurt. I baked them as directed and they still appeared undercooked. I let cool, and put them in the fridge and they have firmed up a bit. They are quite bland, and would add other spices next time. All, and all.. just a an ok recipe.
You did not make them with cottage cheese as designed so I would not expect them to bake for you because that’s not how they were designed. The flavor depends on how sweet your berries are. If you feel they are flavorless, then you might consider adding cinnamon, riper berries or more sugar.
I made a batch yesterday. The best thing about these bars is that they are very filling. I had one 2.5 hours ago, went for a half hour bike ride and I am still full. For me, that’s amazing. I usually have a cookie or something with coffee in the morning and when I get back from exercise have the biggest breakfast I can finagle with the least calories 🙂
These aren’t my favorite tasting bars, next time I’d add some spices but that’s just personal preference. I had fresh plump blackberries and raspberries – I mention that because while baking the blackberries exuded so much juice I had to bake the bars a bit longer and the batter surrounding the berries still felt under cooked. This is not an issue with the recipe but next time I will try frozen berries. The bars need to set and cool completely. I will enjoy these and most likely make again as me? not hungry? amazing.
This recipe tastes delicious. However, 1 cup of almond milk left the bars soggy. Is there an error in this recipe? Did you mean 1/2 cup almond milk?
One cup is accurate. Did you use rolled oats or quick oats?
Megan, these look delicious! I’m vegan so I’ll use a flax egg but do you have any suggestions for a dairy free substitute for the cottage cheese? Thank you!
You do need the cottage cheese in the recipe to hold them together. There are Vegan “cottage cheese” recipes I’ve seen on the internet that you can Google and try subbing that. I’ve never had or made any of them myself so I have no idea how they are or how they would work with this recipe.
Well these look delicious for both me and the kiddos. I will have to give them a try!
Let me know if you do!
I’ll take a few of these! These look so yummy! Berries in the summertime are the best!
Yes they are!