I worked my butt off yesterday trying to get bars made for a few orders and for presenting samples to retailers. .. .the goal. 600. The reality. . .I mismeasured the wet ingredients for the Peanutbutter & Apple batch, so they are a bit dry. That's 200 down the drain. When I went to go make my Cocoa batch I thought (like an idiot. .. .but to my defense it was midnight and the only radio station I could get to come in was some weird talk show with a very angry host and he was influencing me to do aggressive things;) So I think to myself. . ."i wonder. .. .wonder. .. what if. .. I put the mixer on HIGH?????!!!!Then my alter ego trouble maker started clapping her hands and turned the dial." What the WHOOPS.That mixer has P.O.W.E.R. This recipe is very tricky. The mix has to be handled just so, or else it does bad things, like refuse to roll, or worse. The result of turning the mixer on high was bad news bears. That was another 200 bars down the drain, they are too compacted and weird looking.
The only bars that turned out were a Peanutbutter and Wild blueberry test batch, that I don't even have the proper packaging for. But they taste darn good. Blarney! (hope that's not some terrible swear word in Ireland?)
By this time it was way past midnight and I figured, why not cut and package the bars anyways and put them in the farm lunchroom etc. . ..plus I need practice with Grandpa Snazzy anyways. . .so even though it was a VERY EXPENSIVE night of mistakes I tried to look up. UNTIL. . .. crack!
What you are looking at above is the cracked housing for my custom made (not easy to fix) bar cutter. DOUBLE BLARNEY. I WAS NOT going to throw out hundreds of dollars worth of ingredients so I marched/stumbled angrily over to the farm shop and robbed a few tools and nuts and bolts and such and fanangled it together again to at least get these bars cut, even if they are a bit crooked.
Grandpa Snazzy (my moody packaging machine) behaved like a true gentleman and the bars were packaged and boxed by 1:45a.m.
Long story short. . .
What I'm trying to say is. . .CHEAPO (not perfect) ENERGY BARS FOR SALE.. . .they still have all the good stuff in em. . .they just aren't 100%. If you don't care, and won't judge, send me an email, message or comment and I'll blast them out for 20 bucks a box.
Live. Learn. and stop listening to weirdo late night radio;)
NOTHING good happens after midnight. . .that's what my husbands grandpa used to say. . .I'm inclined to believe him!
Good thing I gave this business to God a long time ago, or I might be a tad more crazy by now. Man.
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