This recipe can be used for waffles or pancakes. It is so sweet and chocolatey! It’s a perfect single serving recipe for that sweet tooth.
3 T. whole wheat flour
2 T. milk
1 T. egg beaters or one egg white
3 T. (42 g) plain greek yogurt
½ t. coconut oil (I use Tropical Traditions)
Pinch of baking soda and baking powder
2 T. cottage cheese
1 T. chocolate protein powder
1 T. cocoa
Splash DaVinci’s Sugar Free Caramel Syrup
Stevia
Blend up the above ingredients and pour into pancakes or waffles. Top with 1 T peanut butter (I love Krema peanut butter), 15 chocolate chips and 1 T. maple syrup. (382 calories for full recipe plus all toppings listed)
admin, March 24th 2010 |
Tags: chocolate, Krema Peanut Butter, pancakes, Tropical Traditions, waffles
Posted in Breakfast
This recipe is from last month’s Oxygen Magazine:
(not sure why they look a little green in this picture…)
1 ¼ c. oats
1 c whole wheat flour
2 T. cocoa
2 T. protein powder (vanilla or chocolate)
1 t baking powder
½ t. baking soda
1 egg
1 c. unsweetened applesauce
½ c butter milk (or ½ c. low fat milk + ½ t. white vinegar)
3 T. agave nectar
2 T. olive oil
¼ c. raisins
¼ c. chocolate chips
1. Preheat oven to 350. Lightly spray a 12 c. muffin pan with non stick spray.
2. In a large mixing bowl combine oats and the next five ingredients.
3. In another bowl, whisk together egg, applesauce, buttermilk, agave and oil.
4. Combine the wet and dry ingredients and stir until moistened. Stir in raisins and chocolate chips.
5. Portion into muffin tins. Bake for 20 minutes or until tops spring back when lightly touched. Cool on a wire rack.
If I were you I would freeze half and take them out of the freezer when you’re ready for them because a few of mine went moldy after about 5 days. Just keep out what you will eat in the next couple of days to keep them fresh!
(Makes 12 muffins with 150 calories and 8 grams of protein)
admin, February 17th 2010 |
Tags: chocolate, muffins
Posted in Snacks
These have been floating around the blog world for quite some time. I saw them on Heather Eats Almond Butter. But she got them from somewhere else. They are so good! But I warn you, they are NOT a “diet” food. There is still 250 calories a pop so only make one at a time and count it as your afternoon snack! It actually did keep me full for a while because of the sweetness and the big glob of peanut butter!
Materials:
Your choice of chocolate: (Dark chocolate, semisweet baking chocolate or chocolate chips, or to get natural, 3 T. cocoa, 1 T. coconut oil, 3 packets truvia OR unsweetened baking chocolate and stevia)
1 T. peanut butter, natural please
Yes, that’s all.
Start by melting your chocolate. Spoon half the chocolate mixture into a cupcake wrapper.
Throw that in the freezer for like 2 min to harden. Then top the chocolate with 1 T. peanut butter.
Now simply pour the rest of your melted chocolate on top and throw in back in the freezer for about 2 more minutes.
Pour yourself a glass of milk (for some protein of course) and sit down to the best 350 calorie healthy snack you’ve ever had.
admin, February 12th 2010 |
Tags: chocolate, homemade peanut butter cups
Posted in Healthy Treat
Good morning all you bloggers out there! This morning my alarm was set for 5:30am but Brynley came in at 5:10am because she had to go potty. Then Aubrey woke up at 5:20. I fed her and as I came back into my room the alarm had just started going off! So my day started bright and early! Camp this morning was great. I had a little scare because I thought my cd player wasn’t going to work. I even sent Saundra home to grab another cd to try only to realize the cd player wasn’t even ON! Ah! It was early, that’s all I can say.
After camp I had a wonderful breakfast that really hit my sweet tooth! It was Cafe Mocha Overnight Oats.
Last night I put this in the fridge:
- 1/4 cup oats
- 1/4 cup Calorie Countdown chocolate milk
- 1/4 cup plain yogurt
This morning I added:
- 1/2 Dark Chocolate Mocha Zone Bar (I’ve been anxious to try this and it was really good!)
- 1 T. cocoa
- Stevia
- 1 T. natural peanut butter
It was divine! So wonderful that I even scraped the bowl with my rubber spatula! When I break out the rubber spatula that’s when you know it’s good!
I’ve got a busy day of working today. I have a client at 1:00pm and then I’ll go back again tonight for some more appointments.
I hope you all have a great day! I’ll catch up later!
admin, May 12th 2009 |
Tags: chocolate, Oatmeal, Yogurt
Posted in Breakfast
This morning my alarm went off at 6am. It was hard to get up today, I’ll be honest. It’s getting harder and harder but the feeling I have at 8am when I’m taking Caleb to school and my workout is done is unbeatable. I got my booty out of bed and by 6:15 I was testing out one of next weeks camp workouts. It was great and a lot of fun. I’ll talk more about it next week after we do it in camp.
For breakfast, after my workout I wanted a chocolatey shake but I wanted it to be a good, complete post workout meal so I added some uncooked oats to it. It was great and so thick I had to eat it with a spoon, hence the “freeze” in the name as opposed to “shake”.
Chocolate Peanut Butter Oatmeal Freeze
- 1 cup Calorie Countdown Chocolate Milk
- 1/2 T. peanut butter
- 1 scoop chocolate peanut butter protein shake
- 1/4 cup oats
- 1 T. cocoa
- stevia
- ice
It was fantastic! My kids kept asking why I was having ice cream for breakfast!
I have to go to Costco in just a bit after I get Caleb from school but I will be back on again later! I hope you all have a great Monday!
admin, May 11th 2009 |
Tags: chocolate, Oatmeal, peanut butter, protein powder
Posted in Protein Shakes
I have been really wanting a chocolate baked good lately. And I have some pumpkin that needs to be used up. I took a pumpkin muffin recipe and completely changed it to include the things I wanted to add until it had no relation to the original recipe. 
If you don’t have the wheat germ, flax or bran you could leave it out, just decrease the water a teeny bit. Also, if you don’t have pumpkin, just use more applesauce or banana. I’m sure they’ll still be fine.
Here’s the ingredients:
- 1/2 cup applesauce
- 1/2 cup Splenda
- 1/4 cup honey
- 2 egg beaters
- 3/4 cup water
- 1/2 banana, mashed
- 1/4 cup pumpkin puree
- 1/2 cup whole wheat flour
- 1/2 cup (1 1/2 scoops) vanilla or chocolate protein powder (I used vanilla because my chocolate doesn’t bake well)
- 1/4 cup wheat bran
- 1/4 cup wheat germ
- 1/4 cup flax seed
- 1/4 cup cocoa
- 1/2 t. salt
- 1 t. baking soda
- 1 t. cinnamon
- 1/2 cup chocolate chips
Mix the first 7 ingredients in a medium sized bowl. Mix the rest of the ingredients (except the chocolate chips) in another bowl. Mix the two mixtures together and stir in the chocolate chips. Pour into greased muffin pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 15-20 min.
This recipe made 11 muffins for me. I probobly could have stretched it and gotten an even dozen but oh well. With 11 muffins, they had 150 cals each and 6 1/2 g protein. They are great warmed in the microwave with 1 T. peanut butter spread on them!
In my world today:
Brandon’s home from TX! He’s off to work though so he doesn’t get to hang around and play with us. We don’t have anything planned today and it’s still cold outside. It’s looking like the kids will be playing with neighbor friends today while I clean, organize and work on material for my boot camp. I love days like this, when I have nothing planned so I can get tons of stuff done! I also have three fitness consultations tonight at the gym. Hopefully I rock their socks off!
Have a great, chocolatey day!
admin, April 16th 2009 |
Tags: chocolate, chocolate chips, pumpkin
Posted in Healthy Treat, Snacks
