Spiced Carrot Cake Cookies

Ever get the craving for cake (specifically carrot cake), but don’t want to consume the extra fat and calories that a cake would punch? Well I played with the 2 ingredient banana cookie recipe to make a delicious carrot cake inspired one! Each cookie is only 140 calories and is packed with fiber, essential fatty acids, antioxidants and loads of micronutrients such as calcium, iron, and vitamins B6, E, C, and K!

Ingredients:
16 oz Pureed Carrots (I buy pureed carrot baby food; make sure that carrots are the only ingredient!)
2 cups Quick Cooking Oats
2 Baby Carrots (shredded into the mixture)
2 tbsp Brown Sugar
2 tbsp Chopped Pecans
2 tbsp Dried Cranberries
1 tsp Vanilla Extract
1 tsp ground Cinnamon
1/2 tsp ground Nutmeg

Directions:

• Preheat oven to 350 °F.
• Lightly grease a baking sheet with oil of your choice (I use coconut oil spray)
• Mix all the ingredients in a large bowl
• Using  a 1/4 cup measuring cup, scoop out the batter and place it on the baking sheet
• Bake for 25 minutes then let cool
• Enjoy!

Nutritional Information
Makes 8 Servings
Serving Size: 1 Cookie
140 Calories
2.5 g Fat
.1 g Saturated Fat
0 mg Cholesterol
71 mg Sodium
24 g Carbohydrates
3.5 g Fiber
8 g Sugar
6.5 g Protein

Mini Greek Lamb Loaves

Ingredients:
2 lbs of ground lamb
1 small tomato
1/2 onion
1/2 cup of sliced kalamata olives
1/2 cup sliced pepperoncini peppers
4 minced garlic cloves / 2 tbsp garlic paste
1/2 cucumber
12 tbps/3 egg whites
1 cup quick cooking oats
1 tsp salt
1 tbsp ground black pepper
1/2 cup low-sodium feta

Directions:

• Preheat oven to 375 °F.
• Finely dice the onion and tomato then heat on low for 5 minutes in a pan
• Mix the ground lamb with the egg whites then add the onions, tomatoes, garlic, cucumber, pepperoncini peppers and olives and let cool
• Once cool to touch add the oats, salt and pepper
• Mix well and either roll into equal sized balls and place in an oiled muffin tin or even press into oiled bread loaf tin.
• Sprinkle feta evenly across the top of the meat

For muffins bake for 45 minutes and let cool. For loaf bake for 1 hour 15 minutes.
Makes 12 servings

Nutritional Information
Serving Size: 1/12 Loaf or 1 Muffin
272 Calories
18.95 g Fat
7.8 g Saturated Fat
57 mg Cholesterol
411 mg Sodium
7 g Carbohydrates
1.1 g Fiber
.5 g Sugar
17 g Protein

Healthy 2 Ingredient Cookies!

2 Ingredient Cookies!

This is one of my favorite go-to breakfast OR snack recipes! I like to make 8 large cookies using 2 cups of quick cooking oats and 4 mashed bananas. I usually add some cinnamon and a 1/4 cup of nuts to the mix; then I have a properly portion sized treat!