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Developed By Dancers, Barre Makes Healthy Snacks

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Barre makes healthy snacks for dancers and anyone who wants to perform their best!

In the spring of 2010 Julia Erickson, Principal Dancer with Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, was rehearsing for the lead role in Swan Lake, Odette/Odile, and needed a convenient, healthy snack to power her through tough swan rehearsals.

Julia and her partner, Aaron (formerly with PBT) had both given up on eating “energy bars” many years prior due to the fact that most of them were glorified candy bars.  So Julia pulled out her Cuisinart and some ingredients from the cupboard and set about making her own nutritious snack designed specifically for the needs of a dancer.

IMAGE Barre - Black Swan flavor IMAGEJulia took her concoction to work at Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre and ate it before class and rehearsals.  Her colleagues at PBT and the students at PBT School tried it and liked it —can you say light bulb moment? Shortly thereafter Barre began supplying dancers all across the country with healthy snacks.

Barre donates a portion of its profits to arts education and currently offers their real food bars in two delicious flavors, Black Swan Chocolate Berry and Pirouette Cinnamon Pecan. Keep a look out for their next flavor, White Swan, coming soon!

Read more of the Barre story in our review here.

The Giveaway

Barre would like to give away a box of 12 bars to THREE Dance Advantage readers.

IMAGE Barre - Pirouette Cinnamon Pecan flavor IMAGEBarre real food bars are made from all natural, whole food ingredients.  Unlike some other bars, you can pronounce all of the ingredients that make up Barre.  Barres real food bars are specifically designed for dancers as a pre-class or rehearsal snack.

A box of 12 Barres retails for $27.48. Winners will receive 6 Black Swan Chocolate Berry and 6 Pirouette Cinnamon Pecan bars.

The Barre giveaway is open to U.S. residents (including Hawaii and Alaska) to those 18 and up and closes at Midnight EST on Monday, February 20.

How To Enter

This giveaway is closed but learn how and where to purchase these healthy and tasty snacks at www.RealFoodBarre.com

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What flavor of Barre would you like to see in the future?  And what would you name it?

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Comments

  2. I would make a smaller bar for children and name it understudy. My 12 year old dancer puts in lots of hours and often doesn’t want to stop for a snack. I am thinking this would be something she would totally be willing to try. It would be easy to toss in her dance bag with her water bottle.

  4. Mini bars would be an awesome addition. Sometimes our students just need a quick pick me up and the larger bars are just too hard to finish and have a bathroom break, get hydrated and change shoes in the short break time. I would like to see a mocha almond or pumpkin spice. Can’t wait to introduce my students and staff to these!

  8. Berry Bourree: black raspberries, oatmeal, and a touch of honey to sweeten.
    Banana Walnut Waltz: Banana, walnut, oatmeal.

    …those are already my early morning oatmeal concoctions haha.

  10. My daughter tried this once and loved it. Too bad they don’t sell them close to me. I would live to win these for her.

  13. I agree with the chocolate peanut butter! Maybe one with coconut too! I like the comment about making them mini. I could see this being really popular with dance studios, especially with children!

  14. Vanilla Topped Dark Chocolate Almond – it would be dark chocolate and almond inside coated with a vanilla coating (like those yogurt coatings) so that the outside of the bar is pure white and the inside is dark dark dark – of course, it would be called Odette-Odile! Or something along those lines 😉

    I’m hungry now.

  22. If a banana/walnut/almond butter/dark chocolate Barre existed, I would freak. So. Yummy. I’d call it “Prima Ballerina!”

  23. Cranberry/ orange. I would call it Glissade ………. gives you the energy needed to glide through your day. 🙂

  25. Having 9 and 7 year old dances, I would love to see a kids version of this bar. There are days they are at the studio practicing 4-5 hours a day in addition to the long days at competitions and gymnastics meets, A quick energy snack is always a good thing to keep around. I would love to see a Chocolate CHip or a Honey Graham, kid friendly flavors.