Hey guys!, So tell me, how was your weekend?

Did you do anything fun and exciting for this week? Oh, and can you even believe that it’s already summer and passed July 4th?? I feel like someone is skipping calendar pages or something. I’m not gonna lie though, I’m really excited about summer getting over and it being fall.

Things have slowed down a lot for me these last few weeks and my days have been feeling kind of squished and strung together in monotonous tedium. It’s only because there isn’t much going on this time of year but the repetitive routine is starting to remind me of Bill Murray in Punxsutawney, oh, or maybe more like Tom Cruise in that movie where he keeps dying and waking up again on the same day. Have you seen that one? It was actually pretty good as far as Cruise films go. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve still been pretty busy, it’s just that the usual amount of family drama and craziness that keeps things interesting has been at a minimum.

Okay, but more on point, you’re probably wondering what a tiki bar even is. So my sister and I are always dreaming up new food ideas together and the other day I was telling her about this thing I want to try and she thought I said “tiki bars”.

I don’t even remember what I was actually saying but because she thought I said that it caused us both to think of pineapples, dolphins, surf boards, beaches, tropical paradise……….you get the picture. It was settled immediately that tiki bars had to happen. I’ve been planning to share them ever since and I finally got it together and made them.

I was also thinking you might all appreciate something like these energy bars. They are really healthy and great for on-the-go. As you can see I also added lots of good-for-you anti-oxidants with dark chocolate too (hehe, can you feel the sarcasm?)! Fine, so chocolate is a debatable ingredient to some and it’s optional, but other than that they are pretty much guilt-free, or at least they’re gluten free, egg free, dairy free, vegetarian, vegan……

One more thing, I also used an ingredient that some of you may not be familiar with; dried YOUNG coconut. It’s not at all the same thing and the shreds you buy for baking. Actually, it’s similar to any other dried fruit, like natural candy, except it’s coconut so that makes it even better in my coconut-fanatic opinion. Also, these are really simple to throw together so that you have them ready whenever you want a quick and healthy snack. All righty, so grab you’re hula skirts and umbrella drinks, queue the luau music, and go whip up some of these yummy snacks to go with the mood!

As always, the recipe is available upon request. The first request gets an upvote.

ALL CONTENT IS MINE AND ORIGINAL! All of these food photos were taken with my Nikon D5300 and my favorite Lens, the Nikon AF-S FX NIKKOR 50mm f/1.8G. You can find out more in my INTRO POST. And by the way, my intro post did a huge $0.21