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Oatmeal Choc Chip cookies

Oatmeal Cookies

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Sometimes you just want a good old fashioned cookie. I love traditional oatmeal raisin cookies but my family doesn’t. So, I came up with this recipe to satisfy my oatmeal wants with their chocolate and peanut butter needs.

Oats are a rich source of fiber, thiamine and manganese. Oats have been proven to lower blood cholesterol and they also have cancer fighting phytochemicals.

The base is adapted from Martha Stewart’s recipe for Homemade Oatmeal Cream Pies. I decreased the butter and granulated sugar a bit and added chocolate chips. I also obviously omitted the cream filling.

This is a great cookie that will travel well. Which is especially important because we are going camping again! This will be our fourth camping trip so far this summer. Four days of sleeping under the stars, swimming in the rivers and lakes, hiking in the woods and cooking over an open fire. Roasted marshmellows, here we come!

Homemade Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

  • 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
  • 1/2 tsp baking soda
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1/4 tsp baking powder
  • 1/3 cup butter or margarine, softened
  • 1/2 cup peanut butter
  • 1/3 cup granulated sugar
  • 1/2 cup packed brown sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1 cup oats
  • 1 cup chocolate chips!

Preheat oven to 350F. Combine flour, baking soda, salt and baking powder. In another bowl, combine butter and peanut butter. Beat with an electric mixer on medium speed until combined. Beat in granulated and brown sugars until fluffy. Beat in egg and vanilla just until combined. Stir in flour mixture and oats. Fold in chocolate chips.

Drop dough by teaspoon onto baking sheet. Bake 8-10 minutes or until edges are browned. Cool for a minute on baking sheet and then transfer to a wire rack.

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Whole Food Goodness

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My husband, son and I are gearing up for a camping trip. I wanted to make something nutritious yet easy to grab on the go. The key to camping is being prepared; prepared for anything that might come up. When my husband and I were just starting out, we went camping every year in June. It happened to coincide with a motorcycle event in our hometown. We would drive a couple hours north to quiet our minds and exercise our bodies. Days of hiking and kayaking followed by nights of camp fires and smores covered faces. There’s nothing quite like it.

Now we get to enjoy it with our little boy and beagle pup. It’s even more fulfilling sharing it with them.

Getting back to nature. No TV, no email, no interruptions. Just us and the great outdoors. I can’t wait!

These granola bars are packed with protein and complex carbs.

Granola Bars

Adapted from Gourmet Nutrition by Dr. John M. Berardi and Dr. John K. Williams

  • 2 cups rolled oats
  • 1/2 cup crushed walnuts
  • 1/2 cup raisins
  • 4 scoops vanilla whey
  • 2 Tbsp honey
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • 1/4 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1/2 cup maple syrup

In a large bowl combine the oats, walnuts, flax seeds, raisins and whey. Add the honey, syrup, vanilla and salt. Stir until combined. It will seem too dry but just keep mixing until everything is mixed.

Coat an 8×8 baking dish with olive oil then press the mixture into the bottom of the dish.

Bake in a 350F oven for 10 minutes. Let cool and cut into bars. Enjoy!

What food do you feel is a must when camping? Besides the smores, of course :)

 

P.S.  These were not a huge hit…no one really liked them, especially when they were situated next to the graham crackers and chocolate.