Raw Vegan Chocolate Cranberry Energy Bars | Food Doodles. I know I keep saying it, but quick snacks are always needed around here! For a couple days this week we actually ran out and let me tell you, it wasn’t pleasant. I keep telling myself I can’t run out of quick snacks like these but I never learn. We run out. I get busy. Kids get hungry in between meals and then cranky. And then somehow, all the bananas go missing. Really? After I post this I’m going to go into the kitchen and mix things up a little and make some different kinds of bars because there is really no way we’ll survive the weekend without some quick snacks.
I’m pretty sure I don’t have to say this by now, but these travel well. For anyone with nut allergies, you can sub sunflower seeds, pepitas, coconut, a little more flax seed(I would not recommend using all flax seed!) Again with the pictures, I know, I know. Even the difference that just turning the food around a little makes. Raw Vegan Chocolate Cranberry Energy Bars Makes 8-12 bars or squares. Reckless Abandon: Light Ranch Dressing from Cottage Cheese. A fellow friend and food blogger, Hannah from Never Fail to Impress showed me a new and revolutionary way to make my all-time-favorite dressing: Ranch. I love ranch out of the bottle, but even better is homemade buttermilk ranch. This is a "skinnier" version than the regular ranch dressing recipe.
People either love or hate cottage cheese, but when blended in this recipe, you'll never even notice it's there! I served it as a dip with an array of veggies for a fabulously light appetizer. Ingredients: -1 packet of dry ranch dressing seasoning packet -2 cups of low-fat cottage cheese -1/4 - 1/2 cup of water Gadgets Needed: -Food Processor or Blender In the bowl of a large food processor add the cottage cheese, ranch packet and 1/4 cup of water to start. Continue to slowly add water to adjust the consistency to your liking. If you want to use it as a dip you may want it on the thicker side, and thinner if desired for a salad dressing.
Baked kale chips. I could never get into kale. Heck, I’ve long been timid about greens in general — the delicate ones like baby spinach and arugula were easy but as soon as things got a little heavier, I got nervous. When I finally found a respectable green I found palatable — Swiss chard, which I think of as the green for spinach people — I went to town with it: a tart, a spaghetti dish and then gratin.
But I still couldn’t warm to kale. Because I didn’t like the way it tasted. And I don’t care if something is chock-full of vitamin A, C and calcium, I don’t care if it makes you live longer or feel stronger or fixes the budget deficit, I’ve got this hang-up wherein I won’t eat food if it doesn’t taste good to me. But in February, I began seeing a recipe for baked kale chips flitting about the internet. Yes, crisp. [Psst. This week: We have flown the coop!
One year ago: BialysTwo years ago: Swiss Easter Rice TartThree years ago: Rich Buttermilk Waffles Preheat oven to 300°F. Smart snacking for summer. A Guide to Eating Clean... Married!: Clean Eat Recipe :: Sweet & Spicy Sweet Potato Chips. Do you have a problem getting in all of your water for the day? Make these Sweet & Spicy Sweet Potato Chips & you will not have that problem anymore! ;-) 1. Preheat oven to 425 degrees 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Enjoy our recipes? - Whitney. Chocolate Peanut Butter Protein Balls. Runner's Plate: Chocolate Milk - Nature's Recovery Drink? Plus Other Refueling Recipes! Chocolate milk has gotten a lot of attention recently for its benefits as a recovery drink after endurance exercise. You see it at expos. The “got chocolate milk?” Campaign has heavily advertised to athletes. The National Dairy Council has named milk “natures sports drink.” Why all the hype? Experts recommend a mix of carbohydrates and protein after moderate to intense endurance exercise of greater than 60 minutes.
Replacing lost fluids and electrolytes is also important after a long training run. It turns out that chocolate milk contains between a 4:1 and 3:1 ratio of carbs to protein (about 25g of carbohydrates and 8g protein per 8oz depending on the brand). While chocolate milk may be a good option and many people find it easy to drink after a run since it’s quick, portable, and fairly light, it is by no means the only good recovery food choice. {*style:<i><b> (I promise you won’t taste the spinach!) *Use any type of yogurt you prefer – soy, Greek, or regular cows milk yogurt! Runner's Plate: Navigating the Energy Bar Aisle.
Have you ever stood in front of the granola and/or energy bar aisle in a grocery store trying to figure out how on earth to choose? Although I have my go-to bars, I often stand in this aisle for more time than I’m willing to admit. How is it that there are so many varieties? There always seems to be a new brand or type of bar popping up, with yet another health claim that may or may not have any sound scientific backing, and each with a different purpose. Pre-workout, post workout, during workout, non-workout. High protein, high fiber, or both. Natural, organic, or neither. So, I thought I’d share with you how one nutrition-grad student and athlete navigates her way through some of this mess. Next, I don’t believe in bars with special recovery qualities. So, when purchasing bars, the most important thing I look at is the ingredient list and I look for 2 things: A short list of whole ingredients, all of which I recognize and can pronounce. Next I look at the nutrition facts for: - Sarah.
A Recipe for Homemade Sweet Potato Chips. Bag the greasy chips and try out this low-sodium, healthy alternative. Oh, the deliciously clever ways we have found to sneak in our veggies! Chips made from vegetables are for sure a healthier alternative to the processed, fried and sodium-packed versions commonly found corrupting grocery store aisles near and far. Luckily, our options have expanded in recent years, with the market now offering a variety of baked and low-sodium chips to choose from, including the highly popular Terra Chips that, albeit fried, are made of a mixture of taro, sweet potato, yuca, batata, parsnip and ruby taro.
However, when I want a more rustic version of vegetable chips that allow me to get the best of both worlds – baked and vegetable-based (as opposed to corn-based) – I like to make them myself using whatever vegetables I have on hand. For this recipe, I used sweet potato. This recipe is a foundational one. Serves 1 Ingredients: Directions: Slice thin discs along the width of the sweet potato. Bon Appetit! Thai Peanut Satay Celery Sticks. Antipasto skewers: Simply delicious. H olidays for me are always, somehow, magically about the food. Easter is this Sunday, which to most people means bunnies , eggs and jelly beans . To me? FEAST DAY. This year my mom and I are putting on the spread for the fam, which is a small crowd of only 14 this year.
And in that pack are a ton, ton-ton-ton of kids. And four adults. Finding an easy, quick to assemble and thoroughly enjoyable hors d’oeuvre for people of all ages is key. One of my favorite food discoveries was via Heather , who spied a similar recipe on Pinterest. So — on this day that is the OPENING DAY OF GIANTS BASEBALL – I give you a homerun of an hors d’oeuvre: antipasto skewers. Ingredients: – Salami . To assemble: Any combination is great, but we found starting with the olive, followed by cheddar, the salami folded into quarters, the tomato and capped with the jack cheese was the easiest way to go.
Bon appétit! Traci Traci Arbios is a founder of TheFullMoxie.com and a morning co-host at KJWL 99.3 FM in Fresno. "Nutella" Fudge Granola Squares. Four Seed Carob Balls. Agape Love Designs & Photography: Creating Your Own 100 Calorie Snacks with Infinite Life Fitness. Hello all! Happy Saturday to you! Today I would like to introduce you to Stephanie of Infinite Life Fitness. With a B.S. of Exercise Science and B.A. of Biology degree (also a minor in Health Sciences and Business Administration) she is very knowledgeable on nutrition and fitness! Today she is sharing several ideas for creating yummy 100 calorie snacks that are easy and on the cheap!
Those new "100 calorie" snacks are becoming so popular these days! What does it take? Most of these companies that sell the 100 calorie snack packs are charging you extra for putting the correct portion size in sealed packages for you. This will allow you to have low-calorie snacks available to you when you are in a hurry! This trick is something I learned when I was a kid. Here are some great HEALTHY and cost friendly 100 calorie snacks you can make on your own!
You can also check out THIS article or THIS article for more 100 calorie snack options. Hope that these are some options that you will want to try! 45 Real Food Snacks for Kids. Sour Patch Grapes {Leprachaun Candy} My sister-in-law Ashley told me about an idea she saw on Pinterest for Sour Patch Grapes. I went out that day and bought what I needed to try them out: Green grapes and Green Jello. Since St. Patrick’s Day is just around the corner I thought it was fitting to call them Leprechaun Candy.
I’m not usually one to buy sour candy. These candy grapes are as easy as washing your grapes, rolling them in the jello powder, and letting them chill. I made these later in the evening to let them refrigerate overnight. Sour Patch Grapes {Leprachaun Candy} Ingredients bunch of Green Grapes1 pkg Lime Jello Instructions Wash your grapes thoroughly, you want them to be a little wet so the gelatin powder sticks to them.Place the gelatin powder on a plate and roll grapes into the powder, completely covering.
Adapted from PureSugar Sweet Treats & More. Homemade Vanilla Wafers. Homemade vanilla wafers...that actually taste like vanilla wafers. I was skeptical guys. These copycat recipes just don't seem to taste like the original. They might be good, but they're not like the original. Well y'all, these are light, crispy, vanilla-y, and delicious. Homemade Vanilla Wafers slightly adapted from Alton Brown 1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened 1/2 cup sugar 1 egg 4 teaspoons vanilla extract (yep, 4) 1 tablespoon milk or cream scant 1/2 teaspoon salt (don't decrease) 3/4 teaspoon baking powder 1 1/2 cups + 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour 1) Preheat oven to 350F. 2) Sift together salt, baking powder, and flour.
Baking: 100% Whole Grain Chewy Granola Bars. I’ve tried so many types of granola and granola bars and they were all okay, but these bars are just amazing. And they’re chewy! They’re actually chewy. And they’re not full of sugar like almost all of the other recipes. I know there’s a bit of controvery about agave, but I won’t get into it. I have to add that someone picky around here, and it’s not me for once, has hated all previous granola recipes but couldn’t keep their hands off of these. Ingredients:2 cups rolled oats, non-contaminated for gluten-free1/3 cup raw almonds (unsalted, unroasted) coarsely chopped1/3 cup sunflower seeds (unsalted)2 tablespoons ground flax seed1/2 cup unsweetened dried cranberries (I used sweetened)1/4 cup unsweetened dried apricots, coarsely chopped (I left these out)1/4 cup almond butter 1/4 cup agave 1/2 teaspoon vanilla1 teaspoon cinnamon1/4 teaspoon nutmeg1/8 teaspoon salt1 tablespoon orange zest Directions: 1. 2. 3. 4.
Source: Chewy Almond Granola Bars, adapted from Eating Well.
Spiced Mixed Nuts with Ancho Chile, Lime & Rosemary (Secret Recipe Club) It's time for another Secret Recipe Club (SRC) recipe. In case you're new to this, here's how it works. Each of the food bloggers participating in the SRC is secretly assigned another food blog. The assignment is to choose a recipe from that blog, make the recipe (or an adaptation of it) and feature it in a post. The blog matches are a secret to the other blogger until reveal day. That day is today! Make sure you read to the end of this post for links to the other participants and their recipes. This month, my assignment was to choose a recipe from Eliot's Eats, a blog with many fun reads and recipes with a focus on eating locally and healthy, and lots of family nostalgia thrown in.
It had never occurred to me to combine rosemary, ground chile powder, and maple syrup for seasoning nuts. I made a few tweaks to the recipe. Step-by-step photos for makingAncho Chile, Lime & Rosemary Spiced Nuts Step 1. Why roasted cashews and raw almonds, pecans & walnuts? Step 2. Step 3. Step 4. Step 5. Natural Noshing. January 27, 2012 at 6:30 am A few weeks ago, Sonia at the Healthy Foodie posted a recipe for her peanut butter and chocolate energy squares. These little squares looked and sounded so appealing, I had them on my mind until I was able to get into the kitchen and whip a version up myself!
Though I love peanut butter and chocolate together, I opted for a caffeine free and nut free version, just for kicks :) I admit, these bars are quite addicting and were the perfect pre and/or post workout snack when I was needed something quick. They taste SO, SO yummy that these squares were enjoyed for dessert on several nights as well. Sonia wanted to up the protein a bit in her bars; for 8 bars mine came in around 12 grams of protein per serving, plus its low in sugar, contains healthy fats, fiber, potassium and calcium! Carob Covered Coconut Protein Bars/Energy Squares (inspired from The Healthy Foodie) Ingredients For garnish, optional Chopped nuts, sunflower seeds, pepitas or shredded coconut. No bake double chocolate and prune energy bars. Edible Art: Snowman Snacks | Itsy Bitsy Foodies. Surprise! Peanut Butter Power Bonbons (3 ways)