By Brenda Pearce RN
After a very long winter, which seemed to take
forever, spring is in the air. Parts of
Canada are still being hammered with winter’s final bow. It is time to get ready for the wonderful
months ahead. Getting prepared to get
active in fresh air, and getting our skinny on.
I thought it would be great to share some tips, tools and recipes to
help us during this time of transition.
I was scrolling through social media and found
a yummy, delicious recipe that is gluten free, sugar free, and a healthy grab
and go snack. You can make a couple
variations of this recipe with different toppings and freeze these so that you
have them on hand for road trips, work breaks, and healthy snacks for
children's school lunches. Freezing them
makes them even useful to help keep lunches cool! Enjoy!
Baked Oatmeal To Go -- Instead of granola bars!
Ingredients:
- · 2 eggs
- · 1 tsp vanilla extract
- · 2 Cups unsweetened applesauce
- · 1 banana mashed
- · 6 pkts stevia or 1 1/2 tsp stevia powder, or 1/2 cup honey
- · 5 Cups Old Fashioned rolled oats
- · 1/4 Cups Flaxseed meal
- · 3 tsp baking powder
- · 1 tsp salt
- · 2 3/4 cup milk (or exchange to the milk of your choice i.e. almond)
Optional toppings - toasted seeds,
raisins, walnuts, chocolate chips or your favourite
Instructions:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees
- Mix eggs, vanilla, applesauce, banana, stevia or sweetener of choice, together in a bowl
- Add in oats, flax, cinnamon, baking powder, salt, and mix well with wet ingredients.
- Finally pour in milk or substitute and mix well.
- Spray muffin tin or line with muffin cups
- Fill with muffin mix evenly
- Top with your variety of toppings
- Bake X 30 minute
*** Nutritional Info (without toppings)
***
Each muffin = 18 calories: 4g Cholesterol: 25mg Sodium; 161g Fiber; 4g
Sugar; carbs: 23g; protein 6g; **Gluten Free & Diabetic Friendly** Recipe
source: SugarFreeMom.com
Making just a few tiny changes in our
diets, and activity level can make massive changes in our health and
vitality. Make this spring a time of
change, no matter how tiny or big and you will have made a shift that could add
years to your life! Making this recipe
with your children can help them buy into better dietary shifts, and of course,
the time spent together is priceless.
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