I usually make peanut butter and coconut cream eggs for Easter, but since being diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes, I didn't want to make them and have them around to tempt me.
So, imagine my delight when my youngest child brought home a recipe book for a "Healthy Snacks" class that included a Healthier Peanut Butter Eggs recipe! I love chocolate and peanut butter together! So happy we didn't have to forgo the peanut butter eggs for Easter after all, AND I like these even better than my original sugar-filled recipe! I think they are more peanut buttery and more creamy! So, this may be too late for you to make for Easter, but who says you can only eat them at Easter anyway?
Healthier Peanut Butter Eggs
1 cup natural peanut butter
1/3 cup Quick Oats
3 Tbsps. raw honey (I used regular, because I didn't have raw on hand)
1 Tbsp. powered sugar (I didn't use this in mine)
Directions: Blend everything together in a food processor until oatmeal is mixed in well. (I don't have a food processor, so I blended the oatmeal in my blender until it was like fine powder, then I mixed it well with the peanut butter and honey.) Use a small scoop and scoop mixture on to wax paper (I rolled them in my hands). Refrigerate until firm and dip in chocolate. (I put mine in the freezer for 20 minutes. That worked better and kept them from falling apart while dipping.) Add sprinkles or drizzle melted white chocolate over eggs, if desired.
I coated some with regular milk chocolate for my family and used sugar-free coating chocolate to coat some for me.
Monday, April 21, 2014
Monday, April 7, 2014
Discipline and Commitment
Discipline and commitment, two things needed to succeed in living a more healthy lifestyle and in controlling your blood sugar. Are these things easy? Not for me.
When are the most difficult times? Whenever my schedule/routine changes. As long as we will be home in the evenings and I have dinner planned, I am fine. However, when unexpected things come up and I haven't planned and prepared for dinner, I struggle and often fail. Over the past two weeks I have struggled and failed most evenings because my husband was in need of a car and his work schedule and the hours that car lots are open didn't allow much time. Therefore, we were out several evenings in one week searching, and when we finally found a car and decided to make a purchase on a Saturday late afternoon, until all was said and done, it was past dinner time, and I had nothing planned, so we ended up eating at a restaurant, as we had the other evenings we were out searching. I try very hard to stay away from the fast food restaurants, but it doesn't always work.
So, what do I do when I've had these struggles and failures? I get back on track as soon as possible. I try to keep our schedule/routine as simple and controlled as possible which enables me to plan dinners. This works most of the time. We don't often have times like the past two weeks and I am grateful for that. So, I look through my Fix-it-and-Forget-it Diabetic and Fix-it-and-Enjoy-it cookbooks and plan meals and make my store list from the recipes. That way I have a plan and those are the meals we eat for the week. It helps me to stay on track and feel good both physically, because I am eating right, and mentally, because I know that I am eating what I should and therefore am not stressed out.
Now, if I could just get our weather to cooperate so that I could start taking a walk every evening, with our dog, that would be great! Hopefully tomorrow.
When are the most difficult times? Whenever my schedule/routine changes. As long as we will be home in the evenings and I have dinner planned, I am fine. However, when unexpected things come up and I haven't planned and prepared for dinner, I struggle and often fail. Over the past two weeks I have struggled and failed most evenings because my husband was in need of a car and his work schedule and the hours that car lots are open didn't allow much time. Therefore, we were out several evenings in one week searching, and when we finally found a car and decided to make a purchase on a Saturday late afternoon, until all was said and done, it was past dinner time, and I had nothing planned, so we ended up eating at a restaurant, as we had the other evenings we were out searching. I try very hard to stay away from the fast food restaurants, but it doesn't always work.
So, what do I do when I've had these struggles and failures? I get back on track as soon as possible. I try to keep our schedule/routine as simple and controlled as possible which enables me to plan dinners. This works most of the time. We don't often have times like the past two weeks and I am grateful for that. So, I look through my Fix-it-and-Forget-it Diabetic and Fix-it-and-Enjoy-it cookbooks and plan meals and make my store list from the recipes. That way I have a plan and those are the meals we eat for the week. It helps me to stay on track and feel good both physically, because I am eating right, and mentally, because I know that I am eating what I should and therefore am not stressed out.
Now, if I could just get our weather to cooperate so that I could start taking a walk every evening, with our dog, that would be great! Hopefully tomorrow.
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