No Bake Power Bites

Do you have a snack that totally saves you? That curbs your sweet tooth and give you the energy to keep going. Totally Satisfies you? Well, this is it for me! No Bake EASY PEASY power bites. My family has requested I make these each week. No more late night snacking on cheese, crackers or cookies. No more grabbing a packaged bar for a snack. 

THIS, just this!

Have I ever steered you wrong? Trust me, you won't be sorry!

Total Time: 15 min
Prep Time: 15 min.
Cooking Time: None
Makes about 10 servings, 1 each

Ingredients:

• ½ cup finely chopped raw mixed nuts
• ½ cup Chocolate Vegan Shakeology
• ½ cup organic old-fashioned rolled oats
• ½ cup all-natural creamy peanut butter
• 1 Tbs maca powder
• 3 Tbs shredded unsweetened coconut
• 3 Tbs raw honey

*I use Vegan Chocolate Shakeology because I have found this is the ONE and ONLY for me. All the good stuff my body needs and NO artificial junk. However, you can give it a try with other protein powders. I stand by this recipes with the ingredients given only as I know the goodness. If you want to give Shakeogoly a try, check it out here.  I highly recommend having it daily. *

Preparation:

1. Place nut in large baggy and smash until they are finely chopped.

2. Combine nuts, Shakeology, maca, coconut and oats in a medium bowl; mix well.

3. Add pb and honey; mix well with a rubber spatula or just get your clean hands dirty!

4. Roll in balls about the size of a ping pong ball.

*If you need more moist to mix into balls, add a little more pb.

Refrigerate covered up to 1 week.

 ENJOY! These are amazeballs!!

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Ingredients:

Oatmeal Banana Peanut Butter Cookies

Who doesn't LOVE cookies? 

Who doesn't love feeling guiltless when eating cookies? I needed to Mokshafy a recipe to keep me on track and to let my son eat cookies without all the sugar. We both have a major sweet tooth. It can put us in a sugary situation.

This recipe did just that. I won't feel bad sneaking one of these into his lunches for school, or eating one in the middle of the day. Healthy Cookies! For real!

INGREDIENTS
3 bananas, ripe
1⁄3cup Coconut oil
2.25 cups quick cooking oats
1⁄2cup chocolate chips
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 Tbs Honey
3 Heaping Tbs of peanut butter

DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
In a large mixing bowl, mash bananas with a fork until no longer lumpy. If bananas aren't very ripe, a hand mixer may be used. Stir in oil, oats, chocolate chips, peanut butter and vanilla.
Lightly grease a cookie sheet or use a silpat.
For each cookie, spoon about 2 tablespoons of cookie mixture (or I like to use an ice cream scooper) onto the cookie sheet. 

Bake for 16-20 minutes.
**IF batter seems a little dry, add dashes of milk to moisten.

You can omit the chocolate chips to make them even healthier and add cinnamon, raisins or chopped pecans! Omitting the peanut butter all together is also a delish version! I just happen to have a love affair with peanut butter.

Enjoy and stay healthy my friends!

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Guilt Free Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups

What's the best flavor in the world? 

Chocolate and Peanut Butter right? I know! 

How amazing would it be to have a 100% guilt free treat!? Or even better, a chocolaty pre-workout snack! That's right I said it! A healthy Peanut Butter cup you can feel GOOD about eating. My ONLY problem with these is my son likes them a ton. He gets one for "desert" often so I have to make them all the time to have enough on hand for everyone. But since they take 10 minutes TOTAL to make....... WHO CARES!!!

Makes 4 large  cups:

 1 packet of Chocolate Shakeology
 2 Tbsp of Organic Virgin Coconut Oil
 4 tsp Organic Peanut Butter
 4 mini cup cake liners

                                                                                                                                                 
Directions:

• Melt 2 Tbsp of Coconut Oil. In a small bowl mix Chocolate Shakeology packet  and oil until smooth.

• In cupcake liners, Pour about 1 tsp of chocolate sauce.
• Add 1 tsp of Peanut Butter on top of chocolate.

• Pour remainder of chocolate over Peanut Butter covering each tsp.
• Place in freezer for 5-10 minutes & enjoy! 

You can put them in plastic bags once they set to have on hand for the following week. 

YUMMY!
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Chocolate, Peanut Butter and Coconut Shake

This shake just made my whole day better. Total comfort food! And it really is. 

You feel like you are splurging. 

 Today has been a ROLLER COASTER of a day. Some people just exude negativity and I put my foot down today. I didn't loose it thankfully, I listened, but I also told them flat out how they made me feel and how I saw their actions. I didn't cherry coat anything this time. I needed to come home and workout hard after that frustration. Feeling so frustrated and agitated made my mind just crave junk food! Why does that happen? Knowing that would make me feel even worse, I made this heavenly thing instead.

This tastes more like a treat and instantly made me happy. How is it that Peanut Butter and chocolate just makes you instantly happy? Whoever thinks Shakeology is a diet food, or not satisfying needs to email me. We need to chat. Hunger pains... GONE! Junk Craving.... GONE! Mood... BETTER!

Todays recipes is my Favorite. My, "If I could only make 1 shake ever again this is the flavor I would choose" type of favorite.

Get the picture? A must have!

• 1 Chocolate Shakeology packet
• 1 HEAPING Tbs of Peanut Butter
• 8 oz of Almond Milk or Coconut Milk
• 1 Tbs of unsweetened coconut flakes.

Pure Delicious Heavenly Food!

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Banana Bugs

I am SOO very lucky to have a child who will basically try ANY food you give to him. He has always had the best of appetites. I have never had to make a separate meal for him other than what I make for my husband and I. If we have a big ol Spinach salad for dinner, he does too. And he LOVES IT! In fact, he requests salads when we go out to restaurants. He has expensive taste buds that's for sure.  For example, he wont eat regular string cheese or cheddar, he only wants Aged Gouda and Manchego cheese. He wont eat hot dogs or grilled cheese, he would rather have roasted broccoli and green beans. He does love Hamburgers and Pizza, however  Who doesn't right? He's so my son! 

Basically, I don't have to make his food funny for him to eat it, I just like to. He enjoys it and I have even more fun creating it. The more fun in our lives the better! So today I made Banana bugs. Who doesn't like Bananas or Peanut Butter? Who doesn't like Coconut or Pretzels? Raisins I can see, so use mini chocolate chips and make them a treat. Be creative and have some fun. Food is awesome!

1 Banana

1 TBS Peanut Butter
1 Tsp unsweetened Coconut flakes
8 Pretzel sticks
4 Raisins

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Apple Cookies

Apples and Peanut butter are already one of my favorite things in the UNIVERSE! Adding coconut, chocolate chips, walnuts and raisins make it a dream come true! 

Best recipe EVER! 

Another amazing version is adding Almond Butter and dried fruit! HELLO! You really can't go wrong. A sweet healthy treat to feel guiltless about!

My son thanked me a million times when I made these today and he had the biggest smile on his face. 

Ingredients: 

Your choice! Whatever you like! My version consists of:

• Apple cut in round slices
• Peanut Butter or Almond Butter
• Unsweetened coconut flakes
• Chocolate Chips
• Raisins or any dried berries
• Walnut pieces

These are a regular in my house. Enjoy and you're welcome!

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