Slightly Sweet Treats For Your Diet
These Recipes Are Good as Occasional Treats While You are Weaning Yourself Away from Refined Sugar
These foods are meant to be eaten occasionally as a treat. If you have problems balancing your blood sugar or maintaining a proper weight, you want to be especially careful to not eat sweet foods like these very often.
Banana Bread
(Note, since this flour is not soaked, we do not recommend eating this banana bread very often)
- 2 cups whole wheat pastry flour or spelt flour
- 2 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp cinnamon, optional
- Dash nutmeg, optional
- ¼ tsp. salt
- ½ cup coconut oil (or use ¼ cup coconut oil & ¼ cup melted butter)
- ½ cup buttermilk or kefir
- 1/3 cup maple syrup
- 3 eggs
- 2 tsp vanilla
- 2 medium bananas, mashed
Combine dry ingredients. Melt coconut oil (and butter if using). Beat eggs on high until light and fluffy. Add rest of wet ingredients and stir well. Add dry ingredients in two additions and beat on high 30 seconds each time. Pour into buttered 9 X 5” loaf pan and bake in 350 degree oven for 45 – 55 minutes, until a toothpick comes out clean.
Healthy Granola Bars
- 3 cups rolled oats
- 1 cup whole wheat pastry or spelt flour
- 1 cup unsweetened shredded coconut
- 1 tsp baking soda
- ½ tsp salt
- 1/3 cup butter, melted
- 1/3 cup coconut oil, melted
- 1/4 cup yogurt
- ¼ cup cane sugar, like Rapadura or Succanat
- ½ cup honey or maple syrup
- 1 cup chopped walnuts or almonds, optional
- ½ cup raisins, optional
- ½ cup chocolate chips, grain sweetened, optional
Combine all ingredients except the nuts, raisins and chocolate chips and let it sit overnight or for at least 8 hours. Then add the nuts, raisins and/or chocolate chips and put in a buttered 9 X 13” baking pan. Press down and even out. Bake at 325 degrees for 30 – 40 minutes, until nicely browned. Cool completely in pan before cutting.
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