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Stay at Home Mom

No bake Oatmeal Raisin Protein Bites

Hannah Lucio

My husband and I absolutely loves Oatmeal Raisin Cookies. I was about to make my normal Healthy No-bake Energy Bites and Simple To Make and thought….hmm maybe I can try to make a different version that everyone would love. Ya’ll!! They are SO good! They taste like oatmeal raisin cookie dough. De-licious!! I really hope you get to try them and let me know how you like them.

So I started out with the typical Oatmeal, peanut butter, flaxseed, honey, vanilla but this time I added; raisins and cinnamon. This time around I did not add a lot of cinnamon because I’ve done that before in recipes and it was not good. So to keep it on the “safe side” I added just enough. You can also tweak the recipe if you like more raisins and cinnamon. Oh and next time I’ll add my typical walnuts, I am out of those currently. 

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Ingredients: 

1 cup Oatmeal

1/2 cup Natural Peanut Butter (smooth this time) 

1/2 cup Flaxseed

1/2 cup chopped walnuts

1/3 cup Organic Honey

2 tsp Vanilla

1/2 cup Organic Raisins

1 1/2 tsp Cinnamon 

Directions:

Put all ingredients in a food processor (I use a Ninja) and mix together. You’ll probably have to stop the mixer to scrap the sides to get it completely mixed together.

Once all mixed together, put it in the refrigerator for 30-60 minutes and then form them into little bites. 

I store them in a glass container and leave them in the fridge until I eat them. 
Enjoy!!

Live Healthy

Live Simple 

Christmas, Family, Food, Stay at Home Mom, Uncategorized, Women

Mavericks favorite “Santa Cookies”-Recipe included

Hannah Lucio

Yesterday we made cookies for Santa, they are Mavericks favorite by far. They really are the best! Soft and chewy! And So incredibly delicious! We normally just put chocolate chips on them but maverick wanted to add his favorite candy. Maverick is a chocoholic! Chocolate and m&m’s are two of his favorites. Santa ate the cookies we left him but left a little bit on the plate so Maverick knew he ate his cookies and drank his milk. 

Best Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe ever

Ingredients: 

1 Cup Unsalted Butter (softened) 

1 Cup White Sugar

1 Cup Packed Brown Sugar

2 Eggs 

 2 tsp Vanilla Extract

3 Cups All Purpose Flour

1 tsp Baking Soda

2 tsp Plain Hot Coffee

1/2 tsp Salt

2 Cups Semi Sweet Chocolate Chips (we put in 1 Cup m&m’s and 1 Cup chocolate chips this time) 
Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees

Line cookie sheet with parchment paper.

Dissolve (in a little bowl) baking soda in the hot coffee. Set aside. 

Cream together; Butter, white sugar, and brown sugar until smooth.

Beat in eggs, one at a time. 

Stir in vanilla

 Add baking soda and coffee mixture to the above ingredients and mix. 

Add; flour and salt and mix together. 

Add chocolate chips and mix together, do not over mix. 

Drop cookie batter on parchment paper with cookie scoop.

Bake for 12 minutes and remove. Leave on pan for 2 minutes and then put on cookie sheet to finish cooling. 

Try not to eat them all at once! I hope you get to enjoy these “Santa cookies” as much as we all did! 
Merry Christmas!!! 
Live happy

Live simple. 

Family, Food, Stay at Home Mom, Uncategorized, Women

Football, food and family

Hannah Lucio

This past Sunday we had the best Sunday that we have had in a really long time. 

First I made breakfast sliders/sandwich. 

Two eggs, lots of bacon and Hawaiian rolls=heaven in our mouth. I definitely will be making these more. They are one of the easiest and simple yet delicious breakfast foods. 

Lunch we had an easy one again. 


Bbq wings. We bought a 10lb bag of wings at Costco. We took out 1/3 and let them thaw out for a few hours. Light up the bar-b-que and cook till done. We bought bbq sauce and buffalo sauce for dipping. Simple, easy and not that expensive.

Snacking:

Avocado mashed a little bit with tortilla chips. 

Besides and orange and apple that I had today…the avocado is the healthiest thing I had today. It’s defenitely a cheat day and not a day to worry about calories. 

Last weekend I made homemade pizza, it is always a go to food for us. 

It may not be the prettiest pizza you’ve ever seen but it works. Ha ha I am more about how food tastes versus the looks 😀 I posted my pizza dough recipe on my blog

I also made chocolate chip cookies. Oh my goodness were they addicting! I have also posted my recipe on my blog.  

As you can probably tell….we are foodies! We love food and we love to eat. We love football. And we also love to workout and be out doors. Football Sunday’s are fun for us and am so glad it is something we all enjoy for now. This football season I am going to try to experiment with different foods. This past week was not really planned so we just winged it. Ha! Maybe this coming up Sunday I will make a new recipe. If I do I will be sure to post it. 
Love happy

Live simple

#gosaints

#gochargers 

Food, Uncategorized, Women

Rainy day schedule means I get to cook and bake more

Hannah Lucio

Here in Virginia we get a lot of rain! I am not used to all this rain because we lived in California just a few short months ago……and it hardly rains there. We are absolutely loving Virginia and hope to stay for a long time. Luckily we have a gym where we live so I can still be active indoors instead of the normal outdoors. I have to workout a lot so I can eat a lot. Ha! 

Today I make some really yummy cookies, it was a new recipe and I will post it on here soon. It was peanut butter, oatmeal, chocolate chip cookies. I know, I make a lot of cookies but I can’t help it. They are a family favorite! Here is a sneak peak Athlon they came out.  

  Right now I am in the process of making my own version of flautas, I am really excited! This is my first time and it’s not all the usual ingredients. I like to change things up.  I will post the recipe and how they came out later tonight. I hope everyone is having a wonderful weekend so far, I know we are! Stay tuned for the cookie recipe and the flautas recipe 🙂 this is a sneak peak picture of one ingredient in the flautas.  

chopped spinach

See you again soon! Live happy and always live simple! 

Food, Uncategorized, Women

The best Oatmeal raisin and chocolate chip cookie recipe

Hannah Lucio

I have been searching for a really good oatmeal raisin cookie recipe and I finally found it….but added a few things. I hope you make these and enjoy them as much as our family is. 

Ingredients:

2 cups all-purpose flour

1 tsp baking soda

1 tsp baking powder

1 tsp salt

2 tsp cinnamon

1 cup unsalted butter (I leave mine on the counter all night or during the day to naturally soften)

1 cup sugar

1 cup dark brown sugar, firmly pressed

2 large eggs

2 tsp vanilla (sometimes I add 3 tsp, more the better )

3 cups oats (regular oats not instant)

1 cup semi sweet chocolate chips

1 1/2 cup raisins
Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees

Mix together; butter, sugar, brown sugar, eggs and vanilla. 

Whisk together; flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt and cinnamon and add to wet ingredients. To help the flour from being over mixed I mix the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients with a wooden spoon. If you mix the flour ingredients to much it will make the cookies flat and harder. 

Add chocolate chips, oatmeal and raisins. Mix slowly and not to much. 

Use a cookie scoop to on baking sheet. I have three different sized cookie sheets and on the biggest one I have 3 cookies across and 5 cookies down. 

Cook for 12-14 minutes. Since I put in 3 baking sheets I rotate the cookie sheets so the cookies cook evenly. 

Take out, place on a cooling rack and try not to eat to many ha ha

 

dry ingredients, mixed before adding to wet ingredients
  
wet ingredients, creamed and ready for dry ingredients to be mixed in
  
Dry ingredients hand mixed with a wooden spoon into the wet ingredients
  
chocolate chip, oatmeal, raisins hand mixed into the wet and dry ingredients
  
oatmeal, raisin, chocolate chip cookies finished.
  
try not to eat to many at one time 😉
 

Enjoy and live simple!

Food, Uncategorized, Women

Chocolate chip cookies

Hannah Lucio

Ok first, make yourself a cup of black coffee. No seriously, that’s one of the ingedients that make this recipe so yummy. If you don’t like coffee or do not have coffee don’t worry, just use hot water instead. But it really make the flavor pop in chocolate chip cookies. 

Second, turn on some music! My son and I love listening to Taylor Swifts station on iheartradio. If at anytime a fun song that you love to dance to or your kids love to dance to just take a break and dance with them. It makes life fun and it’s a great bonding experience with your kids. When Shake It Off comes on we always dance around the room, it’s so much fun! 

Ok back to the cookies 🙂
I found this recipe online and changed it a bit, just like almost all recipes I find.  
Ingredients:

1 Cup softened butter (I’ll leave mine out all day to naturally soften) 

1 Cup white sugar

1 Cup Packed brown sugar

2 eggs

2 tsp vanilla extract

3 cup all purpose flour

1 tsp baking soda

2 tsp hot black coffee

1/2 tsp salt

2 cups semi sweet chocolate chips
Directions:

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees
  • Dissolve baking soda in hot coffee in a bowl and set aside. 
  • Put butter, white sugar and brown sugar in mixing bowl. Mix until creamy and smooth 
  • Beat in eggs one at a time
  • Add to the coffee and baking soda mixture along with salt and vanilla, mix together
  • Stir in flour until it is blended together but do not over mix. 
  • Add chocolate chips and mix with wooden spoon 
  • Use cookie scoop (I use the Wilton 8″ stainless steel cookie scoop) to put cookies on cookie sheet. I have three different cookie sheet sizes and the biggest one I put 3 cookies across and 5 down
  • Bake for about 11 minutes or until edges are nicely brown. 
  • When done let them sit on the cookie sheet for a minute to relax and then put them onto cooling rack. 

 

Enjoy a hot cup of black coffee while baking, might as well since the cookies need them anyway 🙂
  
One heaping cup of chocalate chips. We use a tad bit more chocolate chips than the norm
  
Maverick loves chocolate chips!
  
Cookie scoop. Space the cookies a bit
  
let the cookies relax a minute before taking them off, they have been through a lot ha ha
  
Finished product. So yummy!
  
Maverick approves!
 

I updated my cookie recipe because I made a few changes and my goodness! They are even more amazing now. This is the updated cookie recipe finished product

  
Hope you enjoy the newer changes to the recipe.
Enjoy and live simple!