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Equipment: Food processor or blender, cutting board and chopping knife, 2 medium sized bowls, measuring cup and spoons, waxed paper or parchment paper.
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Soak nuts for two to three hours.
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Put 1 cup of dates, 1 cup of cashews and 1 cup of walnuts into a bowl and mix them together.
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Chop and grind them in your food processor in batches.
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Get the mixture to a meal like consistency and return to bowl.
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On your cutting board coarsely chop the remaining nuts and add to the bowl.
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In the food processor, grind your remaining one cup of pitted dates to a paste; add to the bowl.
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Add flax and hemp seeds to bowl with nuts and dates and mix together well.
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Divide Date/ Nut mixture equally into two bowls.
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Into one bowl mix your shredded coconut and dried cherries.
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If you are using un-sweetened coconut, you may want to add some maple syrup or agave nectar, one tablespoon at a time, to your taste.
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Add the remaining three ingredients to the other bowl and mix well.
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Turn each mixture out onto a longish piece of waxed paper and form into a long rectangle about four inches wide and 1/2 inch thick.
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Wrap up in the waxed paper and refrigerate four a couple of hours before cutting off your first bar.
