Sometimes around this time of the year I get a little overzealous about all of the summertime fruit that's in peak season. I eat a ton of fruit, but I wind up getting excited and buying more fruit than even I can eat before it gets too ripe. Case in point was a few weeks ago, when I found myself driving past a strawberry farm stand while out running errands. I simply had to pop in and buy not one, not two, but three pints of strawberries (it was a buy more kind of deal!)... after I had just nabbed a big bag of cherries and a yuuuugggge container of blueberries, on top of my usual banana and apple purchases. For the next few days, I ate lots of fruit: threw some on top of smoothie bowls, in my cereal, mixed in with yogurt, on its own as a healthy dessert... but I couldn't eat all of the ... [Read More]
vegan bars
Blueberry Chia Oatmeal Bars [vegan, gf]
Last year when I shared a recipe for cinnamon baked apple & peanut butter oatmeal, I proclaimed that it'd probably be the only hot oatmeal recipe that I ever post since I'm not a huge oatmeal bowl fan. However, what I've realized is that I love to use oats all the time in recipes. I love what a great source of fiber oats are, which definitely keeps my belly fuller for longer. When people come to me and ask how they can add more fiber into their diets, guess what one of the foods is that I always tell them to eat more of? OATS! They're a staple in my kitchen, and there have been countless recipes incorporating use of them on the blog - including PB & J oatmeal crumble bars, oatmeal walnut hemp energy bites and dark chocolate peanut butter banana oatmeal cookies, to name a few. And ... [Read More]