Hearty Oats

This is another one of those where I have a hard time calling it a "recipe" but it's something that we actually accidentally made and loved it. It's super easy...you just add cottage cheese to your oats! It doesn't sound that great but it is delicious.

Looking for other ways to use/love cottage cheese? Try it in your scrambled eggs, make zucchini lasagna, or pasta/alfredo sauce (yes, really!) with it. Don't knock it until you try it!

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Clean Eat Recipe: Hearty Oats

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup gluten free quick cooking oats
• 1/2 cup cottage cheese (we use 1%)
• water (or unsweetened almond milk)
• 1/8 tsp pure vanilla extract (avoid HFCS)
• sweetener of your choice (we use stevia)
• cinnamon, to taste
• sea salt, just a sprinkle (may not be necessary if your cottage cheese has salt in it)

Directions:

1. Prepare oats as normal (we usually boil water to add to plain oats)
2. Add desired amount of liquid and microwave for 30 seconds
3. Remove, add cottage cheese and return to microwave for 30 seconds
4. Once finished, add remaining ingredients and stir together
5. Enjoy!

Macros:

• Calories: 270
• Protein: 22 g
• Carbs: 33 g
• Fat: 4 g
• Sugar: 5 g
• Fiber: 5 g

Clean Eat Recipe: Coconut Oil Cinnamon Toast

Okay so maybe calling this a "recipe" is a stretch...but we just have to share it. We made this a few times on our hiking trip in Utah and Colorado last fall. It was so easy and gave us the energy we needed for our hard hikes! Oh, and it brought back childhood memories of white bread with butter and cinnamon on top. ;-) The coconut oil makes this snack amazing - no butter needed!

Clean Eat Recipe: Coconut Oil Cinnamon Toast

Ingredients:

• 1-2 pieces of bread (we love Food for Life Ezekiel Bread or Canyon Bakehouse)
• 1/2-1 Tbsp Coconut Oil
• Cinnamon, to taste
• Sweetener of choice (stevia, coconut sugar, etc)

Directions:

1. Toast bread until desired crisp
2. Spread coconut oil on top
3. Sprinkle cinnamon and sweetener on top
4. Enjoy!

Peanut Butter & Jelly Bars

Kenzie's back with another awesome recipe! Remember her Apple Pie Protein Bars? If you haven't tried those yet, you should! We've had so many people contact us about how good they were! But back to these Peanut Butter & Jelly Bars, they are part of our BRAND NEW eCookbook, Baby Eats Clean (and toddlers too!)! We wanted to give you a sneak peak at one of the recipes in the book.

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Baby Eats Clean

This e-cookbook is filled with delicious recipes and tons of information. We know feeding a little one can be overwhelming and there is so much to consider...What is the most efficient way to make homemade baby food? What are the benefits of making it yourself? When can you introduce new foods? What foods should a baby never eat? These are just a few of the topics we discuss in our latest e-cookbook for clean eating baby & toddler foods. The book includes recipes for every stage, beginning with infancy and ending with preschoolers. The layout makes it easy to navigate and breaks down your child's eating schedule into simple stages. If you want your kids to eat healthy and thrive but also enjoy food, this cookbook is a must have!

And, just for fun, here's another picture of us after hiking Mount Yonah when she was visiting Georgia.

Clean Eat Recipe: Peanut Butter & Jelly Bars

Ingredients:

• 1 cup pure peanut butter
• 1 tsp pure vanilla extract
• ½ cup plain Greek yogurt
• ½ cup date sugar, coconut sugar, or 1 tsp liquid stevia
• 1 tsp sea salt
• 1.5 cups oat flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1 cup jelly
• ¼ cup raw unsalted peanuts, roughly chopped

Method:

1. Preheat oven to 350 and grease a 9x9 baking dish, set aside.
2. Stir peanut butter, vanilla, greek yogurt, sugar, and salt together in a medium size mixing bowl.
3. In a separate small bowl, stir flour and baking powder together. Stir dry ingredients into wet ingredients. It should look like a crumble.
4. Scoop out ½ a cup of the peanut butter crumble and stir the peanuts in for topping later, set aside.
5. Pour the peanut butter dough into the greased baking dish pressing it down flat & evenly. Spread the jelly evenly over the top of the peanut butter bars, then crumble the peanut butter & nut topping over the jelly.
6. Bake for 30 minutes or until golden brown on top. Let cool before cutting into squares.

Prep time: 5 minutes
Cook time: 30 minutes
Yields: 16 bars

Store in the refrigerator to maintain freshness. 

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