Oaty Granola Bites – AKA 3pm sanity

There is a perfectly good reason I am a big (beautiful) girl.

I have a healthy appetite that never seems fulfilled, I probably think about food at least 10 hours a day. I am not the kind of person that can function on 3 square meals without some kind of snackage.

This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, most nutritionists will tell you to eat 5-6 smaller meals a day anyway. The problem is most prepackaged snack foods are full of sugar, refined carbs, salt & fat.

Sure you can cut up a bunch of celery & pretend it’s mm mm good, but you’re not fooling anyone. It’s freakin celery & it only really tastes good sauteed with butter, garlic, onions & carrot.

But brides don’t eat butter, they just can’t. I find whenever I even think about butter a good trick is to look at my engagement ring, which I found a great little ring holder for this morning in my egg carton! It reminds me what I am working for.

You can make these yummy healthy granola bites before work – I know because I did it this morning. They take 5 minutes to measure & mix & 15 minutes to bake. They look super cute baked into foil truffle cups but you can just roll them into balls & bake on the tray with a piece of baking paper underneath.

They will store in an airtight container for about a week too. They’re the perfect thing for those of you like me, who have men at home wining there is nothing to eat in the pantry because you have thrown out all the snack foods.

Oaty Granola Bites

Ingredients:

• 100g organic rolled oats
• 60g low sugar granola
• 40g coconut palm sugar (Brown sugar will work too but reduces the nutritional value)
• 1 tbsp agave nectar or honey
• 1tsbp nut butter (whatever kind you prefer)
• 80g dried berries
• 80g apple juice
• 1 egg white
• Approx 1/4 c buckwheat flour

Method:

1. Preheat oven to 180c & place foil truffle cases on the tray (I used 24 but this will vary on how big your casings are & how much you fill them)
2. Weigh & place all dry ingredients except the buckwheat flour in a bowl, add the wet ingredients & stir to combine.
3. Add enough buckwheat flour to bind into a mixture firm & sticky enough to roll into balls.
4. Using wet hands, roll teaspoons of the mixture into balls & place in truffle cups.
5. Bake for 15 minutes until lightly golden & allow to cool completely before storing in an airtight container.

Eat well & prosper xoxox Shannon