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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!!

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Healthy No-bake Energy Bites and Simple To Make

Hannah Lucio

These are a favorite go-to snack for me and my kids. My 3 year old and 1 year old loves them. They do have ingredients in them that you should not give to your child until they are over 1 year old. Just throwing that out there. I have been making a similar recipe for many years now but this one I made a bit healthier so I can kick start my healthy eating. I eat an 80/20 “diet” but I I’m trying to kick it up a notch. I also make these for the women’s event at church and they absolutely LOVE them! I didn’t tell anyone I made them just to see if they liked them, people kept going back to get more. They are also such an easy grab and go snack. I put three into a snack size Ziploc and take it to go. Super easy and healthy.

I hope you make these and enjoy them as much as we do!

 

Ingredients (picture below):

1 Cup Oatmeal

1/2 Cup Peanut Butter (I use natural, super chunky peanut butter to add more crunch to it, YUM!)

1/2 Cup Flaxseed

1/2 Cup Walnuts (I chop them up in the food processor)

1/3 Cup Honey

1 tsp Vanilla

 

Directions:

Put all the ingredients into a food processor and mix. I typically have to scrape the sides 1-2 times in the mixing process. You could just put everything in a mixing bowl and mix until all together if you do not have a food processor.

Put them into the fridge (I just leave them in the food processor) for 30-60 minutes.

Take them out and roll them into small bite size balls.

Put them into a container and put them back into the fridge.

Take out what you need and keep them rest refrigerated.

They are super simple and easy to make.


Enjoy!!
 

 

 

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No bake Healthy Bites-Toddler Approved

Hannah Lucio

I have been trying to get our family back on track to eating healthy. Especially our two year old. I have had this recipe for a few years and absolutely love them. I made this recipe not thinking that he would even try them. But, I made them and he absolutely loves them. He even ate 3 in a row! That’s amazing!

 

Recipe:

1 Cup (dry, regular) Oatmeal

2/3 Cup Coconut Flakes

1/2 Cup Peanut Butter

1/2 Cup Ground Flaxseed or wheat germ

1/2 Cup Chocolate Chips or Cocoa nibs

1/3 Cup Honey

1 Tbsp Chia Seeds

1 tsp Vanilla

Directions:

Mix all ingredients and chill in refrigerator for 30-60 minutes. Take out and roll into balls. And, done. IMG_7093

 

Super easy and fast.

 

Enjoy and Live Simple

 

 

 

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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! 

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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!