I bought a huge bag of very ripe bananas from the market on Sunday for £1. I wanted to make some UPF and refined sugar free banana bread. I trawled the internet and found this recipe. I can honestly say it’s the nicest banana bread I have ever had. I have had to slice it and freeze it so that I didn’t pig out on it all in one go. I chose the coconut oil option but I’m sure it’s just as nice with butter!
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I like to make sure that I can grab a quick healthy breakfast when I’m dashing out to work. This big jar takes less than 5 minutes to throw together and will last a week or two depending on whether or not a hungry teenager finds it!
First, I layer whatever I’ve got in – here I’ve used oats, mixed seeds, coconut, cashews, walnuts and açai berry powder.
Next, I mix it all up in a bowl
Then ladle it back into the jar
I serve it with natural yoghurt and whatever fruit I have in. Here I have added blueberries, strawberries and a banana. But you can add milk if you prefer and eat it as muesli. I’ll often throw this together in a jar and take it to work to eat there.
I rarely count calorie as I prefer to just avoid UPFs and refined sugar so I don’t know the calorie count but there are 11 different plant points in there so it’s great for your gut microbiome 😃
These are my new favourite treats. The only problem with them is that, although they are “clean”, they are still calorific and I can’t get enough of them. I even tried storing them in the freezer to stop myself from getting through them too quickly, only to find they’re delicious straight from the freezer! 🤣
You can play around with the ingredients, you can’t really go wrong. Try dates if you don’t have cherries and any kind of nut butter would do.
Ingredients
- 100g almonds or cashews
- 100g ground almonds
- 200g dried cherries
- 2 – 3 tablespoons almond butter
- Splash of almond milk (or any milk)
- A splash of almond essence
- 100g Good quality dark chocolate
- 1 desert spoon of coconut oil
Method
- Put the cherries nuts and ground almonds in the food processor and pulse until it’s bread crumb consistency.
- Add the almond butter, milk and almond essence to the processor and mix
- Press the processed mixture into a 20cm x 20cm baking dish lined with baking paper.
- Melt the chocolate and coconut oil in a heatproof dish over a pan of boiling water then pour it over the processed mixture
- Refrigerate until the chocolate is set
- Cut into pieces and enjoy
I am absolutely loving these salted caramel bars. They are a bit of a faff to make and mine don’t look as even as hers but they are well worth the effort. I put them in the freezer to try and stop myself from eating them all in one go, only to discover that they are just as delicious straight out of the freezer 🤣 They are the perfect treat that satisfy my craving for something chocolatey and they are made from completely natural ingredients so no UPFs in sight 😃 Sure, dates are a source of sugar but surely it’s better to have this natural source of the sweet stuff along with all of its fibre than the refined white stuff and UPFs found in most chocolate bars?
I use Nibble chocolate chips which are free from the usual emulsifiers that you find in most chocolate so they really are UPF free treats!
My latest obsession is cottage cheese bagels which are so easy to make and, in their simplest form, only have 2 ingredients – cottage cheese and flour! I’ve started experimenting with the recipe and got some great results. They have more protein than your average bagel and no emulsifiers or preservatives. They freeze well and are great sliced in half then toasted the next day.
You can scan this QR code to see the original recipe then I’ll show you my adaptations below.
Pictured below are these three versions:
- Wholewheat and sesame – use half wholewheat flour and put sesame seeds on top
- Cinnamon and raisin – add a tablespoon of cinnamon to the dough then knead in a large handful of raisins
- Mature cheddar and Parmesan – add a large handful of grated cheddar to the dough then add finely grated Parmesan on top
I just made these pancakes that I discovered on instagram. I added a big handful of frozen blueberries to the mix which worked really well. Full of protein and fibre so great after a run. They were delicious! Scan the QR code to see the instagram post!
I forgot to make my overnight oats last night but really fancied some this morning. So, I just covered the oats in boiling water to soften them and left them to cool while I blended the kefir with fruit and prepped the fruit to go on top! Voila! You wouldn’t know they hadn’t been prepared last night!
I’ve bought some breakfast jars and taken my overnight oats to the next level!
I haven’t been organised enough to make my overnight oats this weekend but I wanted to get back into my routine of having kefir every day so I threw together this breakfast smoothie which was delicious!
Ingredients:
- 250ml semi skimmed milk kefir
- 10g oats
- 80g mixed berries
- 50g Green smoothie mix (mango & spinach)
- 10g chia seeds
I stumbled across this recipe the other day and I have made it twice since as it is soooooo delicious! Also really easy to make. It’s full of protein and fibre so a great addition to my day! If you cut it into 12 slices then it has around 123 calories, 7g protein and 2g fibre.
