 FnVs-Packed Breakfast & Desserts By now, we hope you are finding it easier to eat more FnVs and that maybe you’ve explored a new recipe or two. We're concluding our FnVs mini resolution today by tackling breakfast and dessert! This is kind of ironic since a typical American breakfast has as much sugar as a dessert. The recipes below are lightly sweetened with natural sugars, which are a marginally better option than white table sugar, meaning they retain some of their original micronutrients—they were not stripped away in the processing/bleaching handling. From the era of the Snackwell cookie (ultimate UPF!), most of us are familiar with the trick of adding applesauce or pumpkin to our baking to increase the texture/moisture in low fat desserts. We have all made our fair share of fruit crisps and pies or banana and zucchini breads, but here we wholesale swap out the grains for FnVs. Plantains, pumpkin, sweet potato and beets parlay well with their natural sweetness and firmness. Waffles A minimal ingredient list and no added sweeteners make these two waffle recipes superstars! Save the sweetener for your toppings where you can see how much you use/add. Sweet Potato Paleo Waffles Plantain Waffles Pancakes Another breakfast staple tackled without added sugar Perfect Paleo Pancakes Pumpkin Paleo Pancakes Muffins We love blender muffins for their simplicity-dump it, blend it, pour it, bake and eat it! Paleo Almond Butter Blender Muffins (purewow.com) Spinach Muffins Ice cream Everyone screams for ice cream, even when it’s not actually a “cream” but a fruit dessert made from the Yonanas or this lovely lemon/blueberry concoction Yonanas Classic Lemon Blueberry Ice Cream Pops Kids won’t know their Green Monster Ice Pops have spinach in them, they will just know they are delicious! Kids can easily pitch in and help make their own chocolate banana pops. The recipe calls for sprinkles, but you can be creative with chopped nuts or shredded coconut too. Let the kids choose their topping! Green Monster Ice Pops Chocolate Banana Pops Brownies If you aren’t super comfy in the kitchen, or unsure about trying new recipes, then a brownie is the way to go. Brownies are the most forgiving baked good, it doesn’t matter if the top sinks cracks or domes, it doesn’t need to rise and there is always an audience for an over cooked edge. The first recipe uses beets as the base. Chocolate is a great way to hide your beets! The sweet potato brownies get a dusting of buckwheat flour, which despite the name doesn’t contain wheat or gluten. Paleo Double Chocolate Beet Brownies Sweet Potato Brownies Cookies Even the fussiest Cookie Monster will devour these veggie-based cookies! Zucchini Almond Butter Cookies Carrot Cake Power Cookies Cake These cakes cook up more like a torte, because of the absence of flour. PLEASE let us know if you try the banana-avocado frosting! Purple Velvet Torte Chocolate Cake with Banana-Avocado Frosting TRACK YOUR PROGRESS YOUR MINI RESOLUTION: EAT MORE FRUITS-n-VEGGIES (FnVs)! Strive for seven servings of fruits and vegetables each day. Use the calendar to log your servings, as well as your exercise, sleep, sugar and water goals! Click to view and download the log.
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MICHELE MCCAMBRIDGE, MPH, MSMichele is the Senior VP of Membership Development at Concierge Choice Physicians. She is also a professional in the areas of nutrition, fitness and wellness. Archives
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