Showing posts with label nut butter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nut butter. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Crunchy Buckwheat Cereal

  Today, I am going to share one of my new favorite snack food recipes.  This recipe comes from a cookbook that I love, "The Vegetarian Mother's Cookbook".  While eating vegetarian is my choice, I am a little worried about meeting all of my nutritional requirements when I become pregnant.  This is really the only book on the market that I've found, and the recipes in it are great!  The author, Cathe Olson, also provides a pretty good nutritional breakdown of every recipe.

   This recipe is in her breakfast section and is a great alternative to the normal processed cereals or granolas.  I make this snack in small quantities, so that it is easier to mix up and b/c I only use it as a topping.  Once you try it out yourself, you can decide whether you want to make it in larger quantities, i.e. to eat as a cereal.


Monday, March 5, 2012

Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups

  Who doesn't love Reese peanut butter cups?  Wouldn't it be great to have a slightly healthier, homemade alternative?  I found this recipe on Pinterest that I think you will love!  Of course, I did some tweaking of my own.  I absolutely love dark chocolate, the darker the better.  It has two benefits really.  More antioxidants and the richness of it will prevent you from eating too many!  Well, that's the idea anyways!  ;) 

  Here's a piccie of the final result, along with a background shot of the board game, Hansa Teutonica.