Baked Apples Easy Recipe

I had to have something sweet this afternoon and since it had to be a healthy version this is what I made. Don't we all just love easy recipes??

Baked Apples:
Wash your organic large apples, make a cone shaped whole in each apple to get rid of the seeds and to have an opening. Fill the opening with raisins and 1/2 tsp raw agave nectar or honey. Sprinkle generously with cinnamon - powerful antioxidant. Stock all the apples on the tray with 1/4 inch of water and into the 350 preheated oven for 25 minutes or until they are soft. Enjoy!
 

Healthy Cookies

Healthy, natural, gluten free, no-baked, uncooked, unprocessed, raw, delicious, preservative free energy balls contain: oats, Barlean’s Greens, raw cocoa chips, honey, cashew butter, hemp seed, maca powder, honey, coconut flakes roasted, and vanilla bean.

You can make it with any ingredients really. Use dry fruit instead of cocoa chips, or peanut butter instead of cashew butter, chia seed instead of hemp seed, etc. You can also replace oats with nut pulp. If you ever make nut milk, you have a lot of pulp left over. This is one of the ideas on what to do with that pulp

Even though they turned out greenish, they are sweet and delicious. My toddler and my husband are my "Guinea pigs" :) and they will never eat something they don’t like. So these energy balls cookie were a great success!

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Healthy Popsicle

Do you or your children love popsicles?

Popsicle is a new concept for me as there are no popsicles where I come from. Since having a toddler, I quickly realized that it’s a very popular product in the U.S. among the kids. However, I wasn’t impressed by the look of some popsicles in a grocery store. A lot of them look too bright for a fruity treat and surely too sweet. Also some have substances to keep them from dripping too much. Well, it is probably not news for local moms that you can make your own popsicles at home where you are in charge of the ingredients. However, for us it’s been a total discovery! It is fun and easy to do together with your child.

There are lots of shapes you can buy on the market these days. We went to Bed Bath & Beyond and chose a form that’s not too big, has a good grip for toddler hands, and really cute. As a bonus, it has a little opening on top where you can put a fruit, whipped cream, etc.




Popsicle Recipe:

Blend all ingredients below

- 1 banana
- 1 big handful of frozen mangos (we’ve got all natural bag in BJ’s)
- 1 Greek yogurt (all natural)
- fresh OJ, just to barely top the ingredients

That’s it. Now you have enough to fill up 4 little forms and a small shake left over for mommy for a job well done! Frozen, it taste like sorbet!

P.S. last time I added a bit of chard to this mix and my toddler didn’t even notice. So it’s a great way to feed her greens, especially those like kale, spinach, etc that she would never eat otherwise.

If you have a popsicle idea, 

please share with us readers

 in the comment section!