![]() A whole container is 120 calories (I often eat a half a container with some granola).These no-bake easy Energy Balls are filled with oats, honey, flaxseed, peanut butter, and a few chocolate chips. My favorite is vanilla Dannon Oikos because it’s not as tart as many. Look, too, for Kernel Season’s flavorings! *Light cottage cheese – 1/2 cup *Apple slices and a Tbl of peanut butter *Broccoli, celery or carrots and a Tbl of dip (many dips are around 35 cal/Tbl) or hummus *Greek yogurt. When you want to eat a lot of something, these kinds of popcorn are a good choice. All of them have 35-39 calories/cup, and all are all-natural. The Olive Oil one I bought it at Walmart), or Boom Chicka Pop’s Sea Salt. My favorites are Skinnypop (huge bag at Sam’s Club is $5), Popcorn, Indiana’s Fit Olive Oil (I tried the real butter flavor, and didn’t like it. But give it a little time…they’re full of protein and good fat, and if you stop eating at a whatever you’ve designated as a serving (half or a whole serving or whatever you have room for in your calorie count), it will take the edge off your hunger. At the beginning of my diet, I remember thinking this didn’t nearly fill me up. Snacks *Almonds – I love Blue Diamond Lightly Salted Almonds. It gets easier everyday! They tell me everyday how much they love my cooking. Not all gluten free products are created equal though! Some are filled with just as many preservatives as other foods, so read your labels carefully and make smart choices. Our daughter has been a healthy vegetarian for 5 years now, so she is used to the healthy choices but is now loving the gluten free choices too. We said goodbye to fast food and preservative filled junkfood a year a go, and they haven’t missed a thing! The boys have taken a huge growth spurt, their skin is clear and beautiful and they feel good and enerized. I know they are going to be a huge hit in our house! I am amazed at how my three teenagers are loving the new gluten free healthy cooking and baking I am introducing them to. Will use the gluten and dairy free chocolate chips and chewy sulfite free dried cranberries as well. This makes an awesome gluten free snack!!! I am gluten/dairy/sulfite/preservative free and am always looking for great new yummies! My son has nut/tree nut allergies so I am making them with Sunbutter, substituting the coconut with a gluten free crispy rice cereal. ![]() It’s not an exact science, but I’ve found that it works out well for me when I journal and track my caloric intake. If you have a grand total of 2,560 calories for all of the ingredients and you made 17 balls with the recipe, you can say that each ball is around 150 calories, roughly. THEN, divide that total by the number of balls/bites you’ve made. Add up all of the calories for each ingredient and get a grand total of the caloric content of ALL ingredients COMBINED. So, that serving of PB would be 640 calories. A typical serving of peanut butter is 2 Tbsp and about 160 calories this recipe calls for a half cup. To determine nutritional info, all you have to do it this: add the calories from each ingredient by adding up how many servings of a particular ingredient. Could I sub it out for the ground flax? I would think it would work.Ģ. ![]() I have almond meal on hand already from another healthy snack recipe. Yes, the mini chocolate chips can be regular sized or carob or you can use raisins, cranberries, goji berries, or crushed nuts (almonds, cashews, walnuts, whatev) of some kind.ġ. If you cannot find ground flaxseed you can buy it whole and grind it yourself in a coffee grinder or magic bullet or you can substitute any other dry ingredient in it’s place. If you do not like or cannot eat coconut try some type of crushed cereal, wheat germ, whole wheat flour, granola, cocoa powder…the possibilities are really endless. ![]() You can use creamed or liquid honey, or agave nectar or even maltitol syrup in place of the honey. Soybutter, almond butter, cashew butter, sun butter, etc all works in place of peanut butter.
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