Banana Peach Non-Dairy Frozen Treat

  Today we are going to try an edible delight! I had a peach last night that was the best piece of fruit I have had in a while. The first bite was so juicy that I knew I was about to enjoy the rest of the fruit for the next 15 minutes.  I dragged the consumption out!  I took a bite, sat it down, came back from another and sat it down until sadly it was gone. No worries though because there were 4 more in the bag and No one else knew how good they really were.

  I have made the infamous non-dairy ice cream with bananas before but today I raised the bar! I added peaches!

2 ingredients and a food processor is all I used in addition to the freezer.

1 frozen banana

1 ripe peach

1. Blend the frozen banana in the food processor until smooth and creamy.

2.  I then refroze the creamy banana for a half hour.

3. Slice up some of your peach!  After I sliced a side I actually only used a tablespoon of the peaches for my 1 banana.

4.   Add your spoonful of peaches to the creamy banana blend together again and add it back to freezer for a couple hours or until it's reached a texture to your liking.

  Your healthy 2 ingredient non-dairy frozen dessert is done! Grab a spoon and dig in.  Now this is only one serving so if you don't want to share eat it when the kids are in bed! Or double the recipe and offer a healthy treat to the kids too.

  How else do you stay cool in the summer if not with a frozen treat?

Healthy Muffins (pinterest challenge)

  So you know how your having a good day until your kids have plucked your last nerve.  Well I got them back today!  It seemed like I had to tell them multiple times to do several things today.  All of this during our celebratory dress like a cow at Chick Fil A and even after.  I even let them play on the playground.  

  Todays dinner was an easy one.  Hotdogs, mac and cheese and a side of carrots.  Only one of those is acceptable by the children.  However due to lack of time to eat ice cream at lunchtime the negotiation was all dinner had to be eaten before the ice cream was consumed.  One point for mom for that plan.  One poor child was compliant!

  Enter my devious plan to get those children.  Pinterest Challenge for day 12.  Muffins!

 Spinach muffins!  I'll show those kids.  The green I was concerned about but they are always trying to steal my pistachio muffins so I thought I was ok there.

  While they were napping I made this batch and worked quickly to get them in the oven before my plan was blown.  I had to make the dry ingredients bowl was complete before I turned on the blender.

Look what else gets thrown in! Bananas!

  All the dry ingredients got mixed with the wet mix from the blender then scooped into the muffin tray.

  They smelled amazing when they were cooking.  I m not sure if it was the bananas or the cinnamon.  Even when one child came down she said how good something smelled.

  Can I have a muffin, momma?  Yes, yes you can honey!  Can I just saw that was the first thing she took a bite of too.  She even let me know it smelled better up close.  However I did get multiple questions.  Why's it this color? Are there chocolate chips in here? What kind of muffin is it?  A good one that's what kind it is, lol.

  Who cares if it's a pea green unattractive color! This momma just fed her kids a muffin with bananas and spinach in it.  Hehe I feel almost evil.

  I would like to reduce the sugar (3/4 cups) and maybe up the spinach and bananas to make it a wee bit healthier.  The recipe was really easy to make.  Blending everything in a blender makes the mixing easier.  The recipe did have a quick prep time too.  I would have to say with 2 kids (other child ate one and tried several times to try and steal another) wanting second muffins this is a #pinterestwin!

Healthy Strawberry Ice Cream

  I made a healthy ice cream to go with the cake I was presented with for Mother's Day!  Making your own healthy ice cream is really easy.  The one real ingredient you need for ice cream is frozen bananas.

  So with my base of just frozen bananas I added a few strawberries in the food processor and chopped them together a few mini chocolate chips and in was done!

  I scooped it onto the cake plates and everyone liked it.  (Except the boy who doesn't like strawberries)  You know what else drives me up the wall is the surprise that it's actually good.  I'm personally offended with, "wow this is good!"

Happy Mother's Day to all the moms! 

Cookie Time

  Everyone has a weakness.  Mine just happens to be all things dessert.  Dessert is the reason I work out (worked out still nursing that foot).  Dessert in my opinion is what makes the world go round.   What are two dessert that you can make together to make something even better?

  Ice cream and cookies! I made a delicious ice cream cookie and saved myself the cookie baking and took my ice cream to a higher level by making it healthy.

  I choose to make banana ice cream.  It's something I have done before and everyone here enjoys it.  This time we added peanut butter and vanilla.

  Throw your bananas into the food processor.

  Look what happens when you blend frozen bananas.  It turns into a delicious, creamy ice cream! 

Enter cookie to compliment the ice cream.  I choose a Biscoff cookie.  I received them in my #JingleVoxBox free from +Influenster 

These cookies came in a package as a pair.  That makes a great sandwich for my ice cream cookie.  They have a nice cinnamon flavor and nice crisp crunch to go with it.  The perfect combination of sweet and crunch.  Hmm, how convenient.

Don't mind that crack.  It's driving me up the wall but, I will tell you that it didn't compromise the taste at all.

This coffee biscuit has now just been promoted to a dessert with a healthy twist!

Recipe:

2 bananas frozen

Splash of vanilla extract

2 tablespoons peanut butter

2 Biscoff cookies

Put everything in a food processor and blend together.  Smear a nice dallop of ice cream onto one cookie.  Place the other cookie side on top of the icecream covered cookie and place in freezer.  Freeze until ice cream solidifies.  Enjoy!

  I was provided this product for free for testing and review purposes.  All opinions stated are solely my own.

Semi-hot breakfast

  I love breakfast.  It's not that I love mornings it may actually be that I love food.  But I also love to cook/bake.  Therefore in my house breakfast is more than just a bowl of cereal everyday.   In fact we have a bowl of cereal maybe twice a week.  Once on a lazy weekend day and another during the week sometime.

  This morning we had banana muffins.  I buy alot of bananas and we seem to speed eat them randomly.  So one week I run out of them the next week they are left to spoil.  Well everyone knows that almost spoiled bananas are the best to bake with so that's where some went that I threw in the refrigerator last week.

  This recipe was an easy yet delicious recipe.  I have made this recipe before which is not a bad thing and they are good but, I will look for another now.  This recipe is great to whip up if your minus a few staple items.  This recipe doesn't use milk!  However it does take eggs and yogurt.

  I even used my awesome butter sample from bzzagent.  Which oh the smell of melted butter is a good thing too!  Thank you Land O' Lakes european-style-super-premium butter.

  The prep of these muffins were quicker than the 20 minutes of cook time.  So whip these up for a nice warm breakfast, sit back read a chapter then indulge!  Your family will thank you.  I did cut back on the sugar and didn't even use all the required bananas and everything turned out fine.

Recipe credit goes to:  banana-bread-muffins

Young chef appearance canceled tonight!

 Well the young chef was here but not ready for performance.  She had a hard time finishing her food so as they say the show must go on.  Tonight was featuring a dessert with a healthy twist.

Chocolate Peanut butter Avocado Pudding!

Did you catch the healthy part?  I was going to make it anyways in hopes that I could slide it past the children. My son is a very picky eater whom also skipped his meal and I thought I would let him eat this to replace his lack of eating.  Sadly my young chef was still savoring her dinner.

This recipe had very minimal ingredients which you know I like! Easy and healthy let's get this thing moving.

Put all your ingredients into your food processor.  Pulse it until everything is blended together.

You now have a great dessert! Healthy, fast and easy! My type of meal!

Little man was not so fooled.

Its as if he knew something healthy was in the chocolate, peanut butter goodness.

This recipe took very little liquid so it was very thick. I suppose you could add a little more to thin it out.  I liked it though and I have had avocado puddings before.  This one had a nice chocolate flavor with hints of peanut butter and banana.  You couldn't taste the avocado at all.

Recipe credit:

chocolate-peanut-butter-avocado-pudding/

Chef in training! Smoothie served up

  I went to the library the other day and when I go I stock up!

I specifically picked out kids cooking books on hopes of finding some easy recipes to use with her in addition to recipes I have on hand.  One night before bed we flipped through a book.  It was our bedtime story for the night.  We looked and talked about all the recipes.  Which ones I had all the ingredients for on hand and ones she wouldn't try at all due to the vegetable content.  We even found some recipes that can be combined to make dinner.

  Today's snack was a smoothie. Now not all smoothies are healthy and that's fine too but we will work on the healthy ones before we start in on the chocolate ones! This recipe was super easy.  3 ingredients and she can even tell you the recipe.

 Blueberries,

 bananas

and yogurt is all you need.

  1 cup of blueberries, 1 banana and a cup of yogurt.  Blend it all together.

That's it!  Your drink is served.  Fruits and milk food groups have been accounted for.

She couldn't wait to try it.  She enjoyed the purple color and watching the colors blend together.  She said it was delicious!  Another recipe completed and successfully consumed.

Recipe credit goes to

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I tried it!!

 A perfect and healthy snack oh and easy makes for a happy mom and satisfied children. This is even a recipe the children can make.

  3 ingredients: bananas, peanut butter and graham crackers

I first saw this recipe on pinterest and sadly sometimes I am all about easy recipes.  But whats better than easy. FAST.  Ok, well maybe its not that fast but it is close enough.

Take your bananas however many you choice depending on how many mouths you are feeding, a spoon of peanut butter (again you can even play around with your taste preference)

Squish you banana up first then add your peanut butter to the mixture.  Smear desired amounts on half a graham cracker add the top and pop them in the freezer.  I find that the longer they stay in the softer the cracker gets so I prefer about 2-3 hours.

My kids eat these and I have no guilty conscious when I eat them which is also great.

Genius, quick and healthy snack!