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The unsweetened chocolate is awesome too :)

 I love brownies!

 These look yummy! I just discovered the joy that is unsweetened almond milk, especially the unsweetened vanilla flavor from whole foods.

These are a great natural snack bar that is suitable for people with gluten, egg and dairy allergies - plus its a good source of both fibre and protein.

http://gastronomicfitness.blogspot.ca/2012/04/half-baked-dat e-oat-barsso-good-youll.html

Calories per bar: 118; fat 2g; carbs 19g; fibre 4g; protein 7g

I use stevia for sweetening things like tea and coffee or anything that needs a little sweetness. Stevia is made from the stevia plant.

 I LOVE, LOVE to use Whey Low in my baking.  (I use Splenda whenever possible in other cooking...but for BAKING Whey Low is so fabulous.)

It is made from lactose (milk sugar), fructose (fruit sugar) and sucrose (table sugar) but it is designed to hit our blood streams slower and not cause problems.  Also has fewer carbs than full-on-sugar.  

There is also stevia (Truvia is a good brand).  Some can taste a minty after-taste to it, but others swear by this!

http://www.wheylow.com/Default.asp

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I buy mine @ amazon.com

WHERE DO YOU BUY IT?

 Almonds and coconut is at least 70-80% fat.  Healthy, but it is what it is.

You could substitue say oats which are less calorically dense but then the carbs go up.

You can't be low cal, low fat, low carb all at the same time.  There will be trade-offs

I did some experimenting the other night and ended up adding 2 scoops of protein powder (I used Any Whey unflavored protein instead of Syntrax).  In addition, I used half the butter and almonds.  I also swapped (and slightly increased the amount of) skim milk for the heavy cream.

I got it down to 208 calories per 6 bars (18g protein, 13g fat, 4 net carbs). 
If I cut it into 8 bars, the calorie count goes down to 156 (14g protein, 10g fat, and 3 net carbs)!

The bars are sooo yummy!  My husband was BEGGING me to let him lick the bowl!