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healthy chocolate chip cookies!

No I’m not lying!  I got this recipe out of Double Delicious.  The new Jessica Seinfeld cookbook.  She uses chickpeas, applesauce, and wholewheat floor. (which I have never used before in baking)  They are not quite like regular chocolate chip cookies, they are more moist and muffin like.  But I think they are a great alternative and a healthier option to chocolate chip cookies.  (My husband and his friend loved them so I think they past the test!)

The recipe makes about 20 cookies.  The serving is one cookie- 135 cal, 20g carb, 3g protein, 5g total fat, sodium 135mg, 2.5g fiber.  You could make the cookies smaller so you can trick yourself into thinking you are having more by eating two small cookies then 1 big cookie.  If you do that I would use mini chips so there are more in each cookie.  You can find this recipe and a lot more in Double Delicious.  (Buy it at Target it’s 30% off!)

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Healthy whole wheat blueberry muffins

Ingredients

1 cup whole wheat flour
3/4 cup all purpose flour
1/3 cup sugar
2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
1/4 cup apple sauce
1 cup almond milk
1 egg white

Directions

These muffins are a healthy alternative to regular blueberry muffins I just took a muffin recipe I found in my cookbook and substituted the oil for apple sauce and the milk with almond milk. I also cut out the yolk of the egg and instead of 1 3/4 cup all purpose flour I used 1 cup whole wheat flour and 3/4 cup all purpose flour.

• Servings Per Recipe: 6 
• Amount Per Serving
• Calories: 148.1 Total Fat: 0.9 g
• Cholesterol: 0.0 mg
• Sodium: 293.9 mg
• Total Carbs: 32.6 g
• Dietary Fiber: 3.0 g
• Protein: 3.9 g

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Lemon Blueberry Muffins

I wanted to bake something today since I had off and I found a recipe for lemon raspberry muffins.  I didn’t have any raspberries, but I did have left over blueberries from the last set of muffins I made and they worked just as well!

Ingredients-

• 1 lemon
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1 cup nonfat buttermilk
• 1/3 cup canola oil
• 1 large egg
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 cup white whole-wheat flour, or whole-wheat pastry flour (see Shopping Tip)
• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 1/2 cups fresh or frozen (not thawed) blueberries

Directions-

1. Preheat oven to 400°F. Coat 12 large (1/2-cup) muffin cups with cooking spray or line with paper liners.
2. Use a vegetable peeler to remove the zest from the lemon in long strips. Combine the zest and sugar in a food processor; pulse until the zest is very finely chopped into the sugar. Add buttermilk, oil, egg and vanilla and pulse until blended.
3. Combine whole-wheat flour, all-purpose flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a large bowl. Add the buttermilk mixture and fold until almost blended. Gently fold in blueberries. Divide the batter among the muffin cups.
4. Bake the muffins until the edges and tops are golden, 20 to 25 minutes. Let cool in the pan for 5 minutes before turning out onto a wire rack. Serve warm.

Nutrition

Per muffin: 185 calories; 7 g fat (1 g sat, 4 g mono); 18 mg cholesterol; 27 g carbohydrates; 4 g protein; 2 g fiber; 245 mg sodium; 42 mg potassium

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Explore…

I go searching for other healthy blogs and all I find are girls putting how they want to lose 10 pounds in a month or look like a Victoria secret model.  They put up pictures, and honestly I hate it.  I think the shows like biggest loser and I used to be fat are NOT realistic at all.  They go to the gym for 6 hours a day… that’s almost a full time job.  Once they don’t have the time to go to the gym for 6 hours a day they will gain weight back.  You have to burn more calories then you eat to lose weight and if you stay eating the same but working out less, well you do the math.  I think people should worry about living a longer and healthier life not worry about the size 2 jeans you fit in.  Yes it is great to have a goal but when you don’t make that goal how do you feel?  I know I don’t feel great, even if I lost 20 pound, if the shirt makes me look fat then I still feel like crap.  If you set your goal to eat more fruits and vegetables and lean meats, you will feel better when you succeed that goal!  So lets try realistic and positive goals and see where that gets us! :-)

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Homemade mashed potatos!

Homemade mashed potatoes are so easy to make and much more healthy for you then the boxed kind!

What you will need-

I lovebaby red potatoes they taste so good

Low calorie margarine

Sour cream

pepper

onion flakes

garlic powder

To make, boil the potatoes till you insert a fork and the fork slips right out

Next use a masher or I used a mixer and add a little of all your ingredients listed above, just measure out the sour cream and margarine to your liking!

Super easy and super healthy<3

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