Years ago I used to eat Trek Bars before cutting out sweet things entirely.

No added sugar or syrups, all "smooshed" fruit. UK health food shops and Boots stock them.

Nakd Nudie bars are good too - just raw fruit and nuts, but very delicious. I avoid sweet foods completely now though.

I'm put off as they all seem to contain agave, which whilst a better than many sugars; it is still sugar. I prefer that the sweetness in Larabars comes from dates & fruits.

I've had these before. Delicious, but definitely a "sometimes food" because of the agave. I would recommend making your own, as you could use less sweetener and also save some money. When I make raw chocolates I use honey and some stevia.

I love these things http://www.naturalbalancefoods.co.uk/store/nakd-nudie-bars/default.aspx NAKD Bars. They are made of basically like, dates and almonds, but are way more than the sum of their parts. However it is easy (and yummy!) to make stuff like that at home, if you can manage to not eat all of it in a day.

I agree with the Agave comment. Here's more infomration on it:

There's a good summary as to what affect Agave has on your body here:

A. Fructose appears to interfere with copper metabolism. This causes collagen and elastin being unable to form. Collagen and elastin are connective tissue which essentially hold the body together.1 A deficiency in copper can also lead to bone fragility, anemia, defects of the arteries and bone, infertility, high cholesterol levels, heart attacks and ironically enough an inability to control blood sugar levels.2

B. Research suggests that fructose actually promotes disease more readily than glucose. This is because glucose is metabolized by every cell in the body, and fructose must be metabolized by the liver. 3 Tests on animals show that the livers of animals fed large amounts of fructose develop fatty deposits and cirrohosis of the liver. This is similar to the livers of alcoholics.

C. “Pure” isolated fructose contains no enzymes, vitamins or minerals and may rob the body of these nutrients in order to assimilate itself for physiological use.4

D. Fructose may contribute to diabetic conditions. It reduces the sensitivity of insulin receptors. Insulin receptors are the way glucose enters a cell to be metabolized. As a result, the body needs to make more insulin to handle the same amount of glucose.5

E. Consumption of fructose has been shown to cause a significant increase in uric acid. An increase in uric acid can be an indicator of heart diease.6

F. Fructose consumption has been shown to increase blood lactic acid, especially for people with conditions such as diabetes. Extreme elevations may cause metabolic acidosis.7

G. Consumption of fructose leads to mineral losses, especially excretions of iron, magnesium, calcium and zinc compared to subjects fed sucrose.8

H. Fructose may cause accelerated aging through oxidative damage. Scientists found that rats given fructose had more cross-linking changes in the collagen of their skin than other groups fed glucose. These changes are thought to be markers for aging.9

I. Fructose can make you fat! It is metabolized by the liver and converts to fat more easily than any other sugar. Fructose also raises serum triglycerides (blood fats) significantly.10

Agave Syrup and other concentrated sweeteners are addictive, so you end up trading a cooked addiction (eating candy bars or cookies) for a “raw” addiction which is not much better. Eating concentrated sweeteners makes it harder to enjoy the sweet foods we should be eating – whole fresh fruit since they don’t seem as sweet by comparison.

I've eaten half of one of those things (peppermint/chocolate) and it tasted like pure sugar. The most important part of my paleo-ness is being sugar free, so I'd rather just make my own snacks. And FTR I'd argue that Lara Bars are actually more nutritious than these ones.