Recipe Exchange!

Here is the best whole food recipe I have come across so far! I got it from the new issue of Clean Eating magazine and it is to die for! MMMMMMMMMMM! And you should be proud of me that I actually remembered the recipe for these, because I actually forgot the magazine at home!!

Sooooo easy and soooooo quick! Although not so cheap! Holy Hannah! Lindos has Almond Butter that they’re charging $28.99 for! For a cup and a half of Almond Butter! Almost $30 for a cup and a half of smooshed up almonds! The same stuff that I got at home for $5.99! Sheesh!

(I got a $9.00 jar here, but I am going to have to cut back on these cookies for sure!)



Almond Butter Cookies



1 cup almond butter (well stirred)

¾ cup sucanat (I used unrefined demerara)

1 egg

½ tsp baking soda

¼ tsp sea salt

1oz bittersweet dark chocolate (70% cocoa) broken into bits



Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Put everything but the chocolate into a bowl and mix it up. Add the chocolate, and mix it in. drop in spoonfuls onto parchment lined cookie sheet. Bake for 10-12 minutes. Let cool on cookie sheet for 10 minutes, then let cool on rack for 15 minutes (they need to solidify) and ENJOY! Mmmmmmmmmmm!

I also came up with the best recipe of all time for my morning cereal! I am very pleased with myself! I am trying to cut hidden & refined sugar out of my food (ignore the fact that I just posted a yummy cookie recipe with sugar in it above), and breakfast cereals can be LOADED with them...so lately I have been eating oatmeal...not my favorite, but I haven't died from it yet. Alot of people at work have been eating oatmeal and singing it's praises (including lower cholesterol and lower blood pressure - but these are thankfully things that I do not have to worry about right now) but they also add either sugar or sweetner to their morning meals and I don't, which was making mine kinda boring. I tried adding banana at first, but they got all mushy in the hot cereal so I started to add chopped up dates, then raisins, but it was still so gooey (and I love crunch cereals so this has been a very hard tansition for me!)... I finally came up with the perfect mix! :) I took some flax seeds and ground them up in my coffee grinder, I started with about 1/2 cup of these and ended up with a cup of ground seeds - WOW! That's ok though because I love the taste of flax (I add the seeds to EVERYTHING!)! I added a whole bunch of old fashioned quick cooking oats and shook it up....it looks like a 2:1 ratio of oats to ground flax. Then I added a whole bunch of chopped dates (I buy mine in a 'block'. I used about 1/3 of that block) and a bunch of these "OMG I CANNOT BELIEVE RAISINS CAN ACTUALLY TASTE THIS GOOD" organic raisins (they're a specific type, and I totally forget the name of them, I'll have to get back to you on this!) and shook everything up in a container, and voila! So good and good for you breakfast cereal. AND IT IS NOT GOOEY ANYMORE! :) I attribute that to the flax :) YAY!

And speaking of hidden sugar in food, check out this issue of "Eat this, not that"

For lunch I am having Chicken a la King over brown basmati rice - holy crap you need to make this Chicken a la king recipe (again, from the latest issue of Clean Eating magazine, only it's for a wrap (which I had on Friday night for dinner) This recipe is SO AFFORDABLE! It serves 3-4 and it only uses 1 chicken breast! AWESOME! Mmmm I cannot wait til lunch (I feel like a little kid with a chocolate bar in my lunch box and I didn't even bring in a cookie!)