Happy Friday! Let's kick off the weekend with something sweet, shall we? With Valentine's Day on the horizon, I've been finding myself with dessert on the brain. I just can't help it! Also, my hubby and I are celebrating our friend's 30th birthday tonight, and I can't let a friend's birthday pass without baking them some sort of sweet treat... #foodieproblems Recently Nektar Naturals sent me some of their new dark chocolate covered pretzels dusted with honey crystals to play around with, and I came up with this fun granola snack: Does anyone else love mini-sized foods? I find them to be so cute and fun, so instead of making regular granola bars, I cut them into little squares for granola bites. Made with oats & hemp hearts and sweetened with honey, dark chocolate ... [Read More]
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Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Oatmeal Granola Bars
Hi friends! This weekend has been a pretty rainy one in San Diego - not that I'm complaining, since it's still been in the 60s. I'll take that any day over 25 degrees and snowy! Besides taking Harley for long walks both yesterday and today and having a tennis workout earlier with my hubby, I've pretty much been indoors the rest of the time. Rainy weekend activities have included checking out the bookstore, where I picked up a new cookbook on sale.... ...cleaning, and seeing Zero Dark Thirty at the movies last night. I've also spent some time in the kitchen. I have soup cooking at the moment that will hopefully turn out yummy, and yesterday I whipped up this delicious recipe: I found out last Thursday via Twitter and a few blogs that it was National Peanut Butter Day. I wanted to ... [Read More]
No Bake Homemade Granola Bars
As I've mentioned before, I am a huge fan of bars - protein bars, granola bars, cereal bars, I love em all! I always keep one in my purse in case hunger strikes while I'm out, and love to eat them pre-workout as a snack. When I saw the other day that the phrase 'granola bars with Kashi' was searched for a bunch of times on my blog, I thought, What a brilliant idea! Kashi GOLEAN Crunch! is one of my favorite cereals. I love how 1 cup has 9 grams of protein. I frequently eat it with blueberries + almond milk or top my yogurt with it, but why not incorporate it into a granola bar recipe? I peered into my pantry to find what I thought were granola bar worthy ingredients. I wanted them to be wholesome, sweet, and under 200 calories a serving. The recipe I threw together is easy, and ... [Read More]