Yes. Use sunflower seed butter instead of peanut or almond butter, and replace the hazelnuts with sunflower seeds. Toast these for only 3-5 minutes. Calories and macros aren't significantly different from the original recipe.

Yes. Use sunflower seed butter and omit both the freeze-dried strawberries and the coconut flakes. The bars will have approximately 2.5 g net carbs each. Calories and other macros remain about the same.

Absolutely. Increase the protein powder to ⅓ cup (37 g), reduce the allulose to ¼ cup (48 g), replace the hazelnuts with an additional ¼ cup (40 g) pumpkin seeds, and add 2 Tbsp (20 g) hemp hearts. The resulting macros are 255 kcal | 14 g protein | 19 g fat | 4 g net carbs per bar.

I have not made this with any other sweeteners, but expect it would work fine with pure stevia or monk fruit, though the bitterness of the chocolate may be more evident. Because erythritol has a cooling effect, I wonder if it might cause the chocolate to seize and make mixing in other ingredients difficult. I have had this experience with other recipes. If you try the recipe with erythritol, please let us know how it goes.

Yes. Apart from the edamame puffs mentioned, you would try pea puffs made by the same brand. They don't have quite as great of macros, but still a good option. You could also use a keto-friendly cereal such as Catalina Crunch, but be aware this will change the macros quite a bit. Soy-based TVP is denser and may be hard on the teeth. Use it at your own risk.

Yes.. The coconut is more decorative than really substantive to the recipe. Omitting it makes very little impact on the calories or macros.

Yes. The nearest equivalent macro-wise would be raspberries, but you could also use other fruits that are low in net carbs. Take a look at the food lists on the Resource Page for some good options.

Definitely. This will reduce the carbs to about 3.5g per serving. Conversely, if you double the fruits, the bars will increase to 4.5g net carbs per serving.

When available, I typically use NCCDB data in Cronometer to calculate calories and macros. There are a few items that I choose to use label or custom data for instead, despite the availability of NCCDB data. This is usually because I've found that the label data differs substantially and consistently for these foods. In this recipe, I have used label/custom data for the protein powder (Vega Sport), TVP crumbles (Noble Plate), pumpkin seeds (Bob's Red Mill), and freeze-dried strawberries (Natierra). For the nut-free calculation I've used custom/label data for the sunflower seed butter (SunButter). Be aware that both NCCDB and label data change over time and so what I've given here may have changed since the recipe was first published.

Counting calories and macros can negatively affect mental health by being time-consuming and by creating an obsession with inconsequential levels of detail. In an effort to mitigate this, numbers are rounded. In most cases, numbers equal to or greater than 10g are rounded to the nearest whole number (e.g. 10g, 11g, 12g, etc.) and numbers below 10g are rounded to the nearest 0.5g (0.5g, 1g, 1.5g ... 9g, 9.5g). Any numbers below 0.5g are given as is (e.g. 0.1g, 0.2g, etc.). Calories are rounded to the nearest multiple of 5.