Happy Saturday Friends! It’s chilly out this morning! These healthy – husband approved – breakfast cookies will keep the chill out of kitchen – and your tummy! Enjoy!
🥄 2 large bananas (the riper the better!)
🥄 3/4 c rolled oats
🥄 3/4 quick oats
🥄 1 egg
🥄 1/4 c peanut butter
🥄 1/2 tsp vanilla
🥄 1/4 tsp salt
Mash the bananas well in a medium sized bowl. Once the bananas are mashed, add all remaining ingredients and stir well. Scoop the batter onto a parchment-paper lined cookie sheet, about 1/3c at a time to create 8 cookies. They will be large! Shape the cookies up as needed, because these cookies will not spread very much, nor will they rise. Bake at 350F for 20 minutes.
To make these like a jam thumbprint cookie, just before you put the cookies in the oven spray the back of a 1/2 tsp measure with non-stick spray, and create a depression in the centre of each cookie. Fill the depression with 1/2 tsp of your favourite jam.
Snack
Chocolate Zucchini Muffin
Sometimes all you need is a good book, a cup of tea and a chocolate muffin right? Especially when you’re settling in for a Sunday read. These muffins are super chocolatey, but not too sweet. The zucchini totally disappears into these muffins but helps to keep them lovely and moist.
To make 15 mini muffins:
🥄 1/2 c rolled oats, ground into flour by running through your food processor
🥄 3 tbsp cocoa powder
🥄 a pinch of salt
🥄 1 tsp baking soda
🥄 1 tsp baking powder
🥄 2 tbsp granulated @swervesweetie
🥄 2 eggs
🥄 1/2 c grated and squeezed zucchini (about 1 medium)
🥄 2 tbsp mini chocolate chips
Mix all ingredients together. Divide into a mini muffin tray (I sprayed mine with non-stick spray first) and bake at 350F for 15 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the centre of a muffin comes out clean.
Apple & Kale Smoothie
🥬 & 🍎 Smoothie
So, generally, I’m not much of a smoothie girl, but the other day I opened up my fridge and had a few odds and ends hanging around, and it seemed like a good idea to use them up before I did my groceries. And so…this smoothie was born. It turned out to be delicious enough that it will be going into my regular rotation! It was super satisfying and the apple made it plenty sweet.
Add to your blender add 1 c unsweetened almond milk, 1 scoop vanilla protein powder, 3 c ice, 3 c ribbed and chopped kale, and 1 roughly chopped red apple. Blend until smooth!
You’ll probably need a pretty high powered blender to get this to work well because kale is a pretty hardy green.
Chipotle Chicken Pinwheels
These chipotle chicken pinwheels go together in a snap. These make a healthy appetizer if you’re willing to share. If not, they make a great lunch!
Ingredients:
🥄 300 g shredded chicken
🥄 150 g cream cheese
🥄 4 diced green onions
🥄 4 chipotle pepers in adobo sauce, well chopped
🥄 1/4 c sugar-free barbecue sauce
🥄 6 tortilla wraps
To make the shredded chicken, cook 3 chicken breasts covered in broth for 8 hours on low in the slow cooker. Remove from the slow cooker and shred with two forks.
In a medium bowl, mix together all ingredients except for the wraps. You may have to work a bit hard to fully mix in the cream cheese. Once mixed spread 1/6th of the mixture into onto each tortilla, spreading to the edges of the tortilla as much as possible. Tightly roll the wrap then slice into 3/4” thick coins.
To make this ahead of time, make the filling and then freeze. When you’re ready to eat, allow the filling to thaw in the frozen, then proceed with making the pinwheels.
Veggie Tray & Dip
Truth…I eat a giant bag of raw veggies every afternoon at 3:00. And 99% of the time I just eat the veggies as they are. But this week I was working on how to get all my protein in and decided to make a savoury dip to go along with my veggies. And it turned out to be great. This takes seconds to put together, but real with me…who doesn’t love dip?
1/2c Skyr + 1 scant tbsp tatziki powder + 1 thinly sliced green onion = yum!
Greek yogourt totally works too, but I love how thick and rich the Skyr tastes!
Squash Fries
Happy FRI-YAY! 🍟 🍟 🍟
I don’t really know if you can call it a recipe…but seriously, you need to do this. I reckon these are the healthiest fries you’ll ever eat! Cut a butternut squash into fry-style slices pop into your air fryer, and then once done, top with some salt and a little ketchup. 😍
Tips: the “neck” of the squash offers up perfect fry-slices. 30 minutes + 1/4c water is perfect in my my air fryer, but experiment with yours, as they’re all a bit different. No need to add any oil.
Mocha Yogourt
Mocha Yogourt 🥄
This is an absolute go-to meal for me. It’s high protein, caffeinates you for the day, has just the right amount of chocolatey taste and goes together in a snap. Could you ask for more?
Mix together: 1 cup of greek yogourt or Skyr, 1 tbsp instant coffer granules, 1 tbsp cocoa powder and a few drops of Stevia. That’s all!
Enjoy!
Chai Spice Breakfast Muffins
I’m so happy to be home and to get back to these awesome 𝘊𝘩𝘢𝘪 𝘚𝘱𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘉𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘬𝘧𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘔𝘶𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘴! You better believe this is what I’m eating for breakfast today! Chai is a bold flavour, so feel free to reduce the amount in the muffins, if you’d like something a little more subtle.
To make 12 muffins, mix together:
🥄 120g rolled oats – ground in your food processor
🥄 3 scoops protein powder (I like Magnum Quattro for Baking)
🥄 1/2c granulated swerve
🥄 1 tbsp chai spice powder
🥄 1 c peeled, shredded zucchini that has been squeezed of excess moisture
🥄 1/4 tsp salt
🥄 2 eggs
🥄 1 cup almond milk
🥄 30g chopped walnuts
Portion the mixed batter into 12 lined muffin cups (it will be thin!) and bake at 350F for about 22 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the centre comes out clean.
Overnight Oats – Peanut Butter Cup
I’ve been loving hard on overnight oats lately. Somehow these Peanut Butter Cup Overnight Oats fell out of my rotation for a little while. But they’re back. And I can’t get enough!
🥜 + 🍫 = ❤️
🥄 1/3 c rolled oats
🥄 1 c plain Greek yogourt
🥄 1/3 c almond milk (or other milk of choice)
🥄 1 tbsp cocoa powder
🥄 1 tbsp peanut butter
🥄 a few drops stevia (or 1 tbsp maple syrup)
🥄 a tiny pinch of salt
Mix all this goodness up and let it sit in the fridge overnight. Top with a sprinkle of cocoa nibs, If you like. Enjoy in the morning!
These are the perfect make ahead meal. Make a week’s worth on Sunday and they’ll still be delicious on Friday.
Also, while overnight oats are traditionally a breakfast favourite, this is my favourite 3:00 pm snack. Just sayin’ 😉
Banana Pumpkin Yogourt
Still keeping things easy-peasy over here. Because #HolidayMadness is in full swing.
This makes a delicious breakfast or snack.
🥄 1 c plain Skyr (or Greek Yogourt)
🥄 1 tsp pumpkin pie spice
🥄 a few drops of stevia or 1 tbsp maple syrup
🥄 1/2 banana sliced
🥄 2 tbsp chopped pecans
Enjoy! 😋