Choco-Peanut Butter frozen cookies- Healthy Snack Alternative

In starting this new journey, I wanted to cut out the very unhealthy, highly over processed snacks of my past, chips, chocolate bars... basically crap! But I still wanted to enjoy Healthy Snack Alternatives that didn’t make me feel deprived from the crunchy, sweet, chocolaty tastes that make a girl feel good! So these foods/recipes will show you that there are alternatives that provide good for you nutrition and are not so highly processed. In fact, when I went to this week’s weight management clinic, the consultant actually said the same thing. That it’s great that I have found healthy alternatives for snacking, it’s important to make the right changes and not feel deprived, that this is the way to be successful in making the right changes for life.

So here is a recipe for a delicious snack when you need something sweet and chocolaty... Eat them from the frozen from the freezer, they are better that way. Don’t worry, they are not hard, so you won’t break a tooth.

Choco-Peanut Butter frozen cookies (an old Weight Watchers Recipe)

Ingredients

                1/4 cup skim milk  

                2 Tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder  

                2 Tbsp sugar  

                1/4 cup chunky peanut butter  

                1 cup uncooked old fashioned oats  

                2 tsp canola oil  

Instructions

    Mix milk, cocoa powder and sugar in a small saucepan over low heat.     Bring to boil, then remove from heat. Add peanut butter and stir into mix until melted. Stir in oatmeal and oil.

 Drop 16 spoonfuls onto a baking sheet lined with wax paper. Freeze for at least four hours. They are better the day after you make them as they get more frozen and hard. Eat frozen. Very delicious!

Nutritional information per cookie (make 16)

58 calories

7 g carbs

3 g fat

2 g protein

1 g fibre