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I started making these for my mum.

She'd been in perimenopause for twelve years before she discovered what she was going through. Twelve years of symptoms with no name attached to them.

Perimenopause is hard. I'm not going to pretend a chocolate bar fixes it. But I could make her something that helped, with every ingredient chosen deliberately, with her symptoms in mind.

I wanted to give her something to look forward to. Something delicious that tasted naughty without being so. It had to taste like a dessert. Not a supplement. Not a health snack. Not something she had to talk herself into.

That's the Balance Bar. Rich, fudgy and indulgent, built on sticky dates and 70% dark chocolate for low mood, toasted walnuts for brain fog, ground flaxseed for hot flushes and pumpkin seeds for restless sleep, brought together with peanut butter and finished with flakes of Maldon sea salt. Every ingredient is in there doing a job. Nothing is filler.