Since the day after we got back from Mexico (August 10th) We have not been eating sugar. I personally am feeling great! The major difference in how I feel is the lack of headaches, which is a big thing considering the amount of headaches I get. I am also feeling good about feeding my girls healthier options. So this may cause you to think that we are not eating desserts. Well let me enlighten you, we are! 🙂 We just started incorporating some dark chocolate back in as well as maple syrup and honey. However I am excited about options other than sugar. For instance the other morning I made chocolate chocolate chip muffins with no added sugar. ( I can’t find the recipe I used 🙁 but I might be able to remember the recipe:
3/4 cup cocoa, 1 TBLS baking powder, 2 cups flour, 1/2 tea salt. 1/3 cup coconut oil and 2 TBLs melted butter, 2 eggs. I did about a heaping cup of dates pureed with 1 1/4 cup milk. 2 tea vanilla, 1 cup chocolate chips(I do dark chocolate). mix all ingredients together and spoon large scoops into greased cupcake pans, drop a few more chocolate chips on the muffins and bake at 350 for 18 min or until toothpick comes out clean. They come out a little crumbly, but moist. It is not sweet like cake, but if your used to having less sugar then it taste amazing!
were they good might you ask? Why yes, we all LOVED them!
What did I sweeten with them with?? DUN Dun dunnnnn… I sweetened them with date paste! I bought a large bin of dates at Costco the other day, when I got home, I threw it on the table and said to TJ “Here’s our new bin of sugar!”
We have been having something similar to soft serve ice cream, which is frozen bananas, some sort of milk, and cocoa blended together… delicious!
I made chocolate pudding the other day with avocado, milk, cocoa, honey and maple syrup… Glorious, I added whipped cream and raspberries on top, absolutely amazing!!
My most recent obsession has become smoothies. I realized that I could add green things to my children’s smoothies and they will still eat them… woohooo!!!!
I buy my Kale from the trustee Trader Joes down the street
Every afternoon I have been making them a smoothie! I have all sorts of ingredients to add: avocado, peaches, berries, bananas, always Kale or spinach, plain yogurt, a little unsweetened juice, a little almond milk, and we’re good to go! I feel so good about all the nutrients that are entering their little bodies, it makes me feel sort of giddy 🙂
yummy smoothies!
I am interested in trying cookies made with dates… I’ll let you know how it goes. 🙂
We have come up with a new phenomenon, Penny doesn’t love to go potty but she loves to wear underwear, however we recently stuck her on her little potty and threw her little tent on top of her and voila it was a portable bathroom, she loved it and has been successfully going potty more often. 🙂 Yaaaay… Penny!
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