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Recipe: Peanut Butter Energy Balls

Apr17

     
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Recipe: Peanut Butter Energy Balls

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Serves: 14-17 balls

If you love peanut butter and chocolate as much as I do, here is a quick and easy recipe you can tailor to your own tastes. This simple snack takes only minutes to make, and it is packed with nutrition and energy. Enjoy!
Ingredients
  • 1 cup rolled oats
  • ½ cup Natural peanut butter
  • ½ cup chocolate chips
  • 8 dates (pitted)
  • 1 Tablespoon flax seeds (or other seeds of your choice)
Instructions
  1. Place oats and flax seeds into a food processor and grind until smooth. (I find this works really well in my NutriBullet) Pour into bowl of a stand mixer.
  2. Place dates into food processor (or NutriBullet) and grind until smooth. Add this to the oats and seeds in the stand mixer.
  3. Add peanut butter to the stand mixer. Mix on low until all ingredients are combined well. Add the chocolate chips.
  4. Using a Tablespoon, scoop out the mixture and roll into a ball. Makes about 14-17 balls.
  5. Store in an airtight container and store in the refrigerator.
Notes
Feel free to add additional ingredients such as shredded coconut, nuts, and seeds to your liking. Enjoy!

 

Real Food: Banana Oatmeal Pancakes

Mar22

March 22, 2014 030I love this pancake recipe because it is simple to make and it is made with just a few ingredients, all of them being REAL food ingredients.  I also love that this recipe contains no white flour or white sugar.

I just finished reading the book Wheat Belly by William Davis, and while it did not fully convince me to go 100% gluten free, it did reinforce my belief that we should strive to minimize our consumption of products made with white flour.

My daughters do prefer traditional pancakes over these, but I do enjoy these and my 9-year old daughter does as well.  Enjoy!

 

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Banana Oatmeal Pancakes

Serves: 2 pancakes

Ingredients
  • 2 eggs
  • ⅓ cup rolled oats
  • ½ banana, sliced
  • ½ teaspoon cinnamon
  • ½ tablespoon butter or coconut oil, for cooking
  • Pure maple syrup, for serving
Instructions
  1. In a food processor, grind oats until fine. Add eggs, cinnamon, and banana, and grind until smooth.
  2. Heat butter or coconut oil over medium heat in a skillet.
  3. Add half of the batter (about ½ cup) pancake mix to the skillet.
  4. Cook until you are able to slip a spatula underneath the pancake and lift it without the pancake breaking. Flip the pancake.
  5. Cook until lightly brown.
  6. Repeat with remaining batter. Serve with pure maple syrup.
Notes
This recipe only makes two pancakes. I only have a mini food processor, so it doesn’t hold a lot of batter. You may want to double the recipe for more servings. Also, the pancakes are thinner than traditional pancakes.