Power Balls

Ingredients:
1 c. oats
2/3 c. coconut flakes
½ c. wheat flour or wheat germ
½ c. peanut butter
¼ c. honey
1 t. vanilla

Directions:
1. Stir ingredients until well mixed.
2. Form into 8 balls and serve.

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies

 Ingredients:

2 eggs

¾ c. sugar

½ c. applesauce

1 c. canned pumpkin

1 t. vanilla

2 c. wheat flour

1 ½ t. baking powder

1 t. baking soda

½ t. salt

2 t. cinnamon

½ t. ginger

¼ t. nutmeg

¼ t. cloves

1 c. chocolate chips

Directions:

1. Mix eggs & sugar for 2 min.

2. Add remain ingredients, drop into 24 cookies onto greased pans
(2 T. each, 12 per pan)

2. Bake at 325* for 16 minutes. Cool on racks.

Chewy, Lowfat Sugar Cookies

COOKIES
Dry Ingredients:
1 1/4 c. white flour (or 1 c. wheat flour)
3/4 t. cornstarch
1/4 t. baking powder
1/4 t. salt

Wet Ingredients:
2 T. butter (or spread)
1 egg
1 t. vanilla (2t. imitation vanilla)
1/2 c + 2T sugar
1 t. water

Directions:
1. Stir dry ingredients, then mix in the wet.
2. Gather with hands and form a ball
3. Cover with plastic wrap and chill in fridge for 1 hour
4. Preheat oven to 350*
5. Roll out and cut into small 22 cookies (18 for wheat)
6. Place on jelly roll pan and bake for 10 min
7. Sit in pan for a couple minutes, then cool on racks

ICING
Royal Icing Ingredients:
(this makes enough to decorate a double batch)
1 egg white
1 t. lemon juice
1 1/2 c. powdered sugar
Directions:
1. Whisk egg white and lemon juice until bubbles
2. Gradually beat in powdered sugar

Normal Icing:     
5T. powdered sugar           
1/4 t. vanilla
1 t. milk

Buttermilk Icing:
1c powdered sugar
2T. butter, softened
1/4t. vanilla
1T. milk (add gradually until desired consistency)

*I got this recipe from this website: skinny heart shaped cookies

April Meal Plan

APRIL Snack & Meal Plan
This follows a 6-meals a day plan.

Healthiest Banana Oatmeal Cookies

Ingredients:
4 large bananas
2 c. quick oats
1/2 c. chocolate chips

Directions:
1. Pre-heat the oven to 350*
2. Blend/Mash Bananas
3. Stir in oats and chocolate chips
4. Form into 24 balls and place on a cookie sheet
5. Bake for 15 min.

Healthy, Low Sugar Yams/Sweet Potatoes

Ingredients:
4 lbs Yams or Sweet Potatoes (4 large size, 10 small)
2 t. brown sugar
1 15 oz can pineapple
1 c. raisins
1/2 t. cinnamon
1/8 t. nutmeg

1/4 t. salt

4 bananas, divided
1/4 c. sliced almonds


Directions:
1. Bake on pan or microwave yams until soft. Cool & Peel.
2. Blend with sugar, pineapple, raisins, cinnamon, nutmeg, salt, and 2 bananas
3. Spread onto a 9x13 casserole pan.
4. Top with nuts and 2 sliced bananas.
5. Bake at 400* for 15 min.

Snack Salad

I have been making this simple salad lately for a morning snack or combined
with a cheese sandwhich or tortilla for lunch.
It's a simple snack combination a protein (bean) with a fruit (avacado)

Ingredients:
1/2 c. beans (pinto, kidney, black)
1/2 avacado, mashed
garlic salt (sprinkled on avacado)
cabbage

Variation if having a meat or peanut butter sandwhich:
1/2 c. cottage cheese
1/2 tomato
garlic salt
cabbage

Nut Variation if having beans with lunch:
1/4 c. nuts
apples, bananas, or craisins
cabbage
*fruit cabbage honey-vinegar dressing