Protein bites

Protein bites

1 cup heaping with peanut butter

2 cups oatmeal 

1 cup chocolate chips 

1/4cup honey

2 cups shredded coconut

1 tsp vanilla 

Mix everything together and chill in the fridge for 2 hours.  Then form into balls.  Store in the fridge. 

Strawberry jam

Homemade Strawberry Jam

9 cups strawberries diced

2 pkgs certo (gelatin)

14 cups sugar or sweetener

Bring strawberries and certo to a boil on high heat in a heavy bottomed pan. Once boiling add the sugar or sweetener and bring to a boil again.  Boil for 1 minute then pull off the heat.   Stir for 5 min and remove foam from the top.  

Put jam into warm canning jars.  

I warm mine in the oven set to 200

Put lids for the cans in a small pot on a simmer.  

Once the jam is in the jars put the warm lids on.  You do not need to process this jam in a canner on a rolling boil but I like to process it for 15 minutes.  Let the jars sit on the counter to seal for 24 hours.  

Oatmeal pancakes

These pancakes are diabetes friendly.  Pancakes have been my kryptonite recently and these ones didn’t peak my numbers. 

First warm:

1 1/2 cups water

1 1/2 cups milk 

For 3 min in the microwave then add:

2 cups quick oatmeal to the mixture and allow to sit. 

Mix:

6 eggs

2 tsp vanilla

1/4 cup melted butter

Then add oat mixture and:

6 tbsp brown sugar (or stevia brown sugar)

1 tsp cinnamon

1 tbsp baking powder

1 tsp salt

2 cups white or whole wheat flour

Cook on a griddle and serve

Pumpkin cookies

2 1/2 cups flour white or whole wheat

1 tsp baking powder

1 tsp baking soda

2 tsp cinnamon

1/2 tsp nutmeg

1/2 tsp cloves

1/2 tsp salt

1/2 cup butter

1 1/2 cups sugar or Splenda 

2 cups pumpkin purée ( I cut our pumpkin in 1/2 and baked it at 350 for 1 hour then scraped out the pumpkin and mixed it in the food processor)

1 egg

1 tsp vanilla extract

Bake at 350 for 10 minutes 

Chewy double chocolate chip cookies

1 1/4 cup butter or margarine

2 cups sugar can replace with stevia (bake the same amount of time, the cookies come out way less flat but taste good)

2 eggs

2 tsp vanilla

3 cups flour

1/3 cup cocoa powder

1 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp salt

1 cup chocolate chips

Mix and bake at 350 for 12 min. Yields 4 dozen cookies.