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When Banana, Oatmeal & Chocolate Co-Mingle:

November 02, 2009 By: Keila G. Category: Health Benefits, Healthy Recipes, Weight watcher`s lifestyle

Combining delicious, nutritious and natural foods as oatmeal and dark chocolate, you might find that adding a fruit to the mixture can be more tasteful and healthy. Check out this wonderful craving savor healthy cookies recipe and be surprised how reducing the amount of sugar and butter per cookie, while adding mashed ripe Banana to these amazing oatmeal – chocolate chip delights can improve more then their flavor, but higher their nutrition value, especially when we are talking weight watchers lifestyle and smart food choices: 

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Nutrition Facts: 2 small cookies contain 115 calories, 3.5 grams of fat, 2 grams of protein, 19 grams of carbs, 1.5 grams of fiber and 10 mg of calcium!

health_dark_chocolate_chipsIngrediants:

  • 1 Medium Banana, rip and mashed.
  • 1/2 cup Brown Sugar
  • 1/4 cup Butter, softened
  • 1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
  • 1 large Egg
  • 1 and 1/4 cup of all-purpose Flour
  • 2 cups old-fashioned Oats
  • 1 teaspoon Baking Soda
  • 1/4 teaspoon Salt
  • healthy_oats1/2 cup Dark-Chocolate Chips
  • Cooking Oil Spray

 

How to make?!

Preheat oven to 350* degrees.

  • Combine banana, sugar, butter and vanilla in a large bowl and beat with mixer at a medium speed until smooth. Add the large Egg and keep beating well.
  • In a separate medium bowl combine flour, oats, baking soda and salt, stirring with a whisk. Add flour mixture to banana mixture and beat again with mixer, on medium speed until well blended. Add chocolate chips and stir.
  • Coat baking sheet with cooking spray and drop cookies mixture by heaping tablespoonfuls 2 inches apart. Bake cookies for 17-20 minutes, cool down before remove from pan and- Enjoy!!! 

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Low-Fat Whole Grain Wheat Bread:

August 10, 2009 By: Keila G. Category: Diet Secrets, Health Benefits, Weight watcher`s lifestyle

Bread has been the greatest achievement in 10,000 years of human civilization (when first produced). As of today, since there are so many versions of bread available for us, the consumers, I recommend the low-fat whole grain wheat one, as the best bread choice you can make in order to keep a healthy lifestyle, and reduce the risk of heart disease, diabetes, and certain types of cancer.

Whole_wheat_bread

Whole grain bread contains Fiber and Antioxidants (such as Vitamin E and B, Selenium, Iron, Zing and Magnesium) more than ordinary bread. It is hefthier, tastier, and much more nutritious than any other bread. Made from flour that has been milled from intact kernels of wheat, the whole grain bread contains the entire seed or kernel of the plant such as barley, millet, buckwheat, oat, and rye (the “whole grain”) as opposed to refined (white) flour, which has been stripped of the bran and germ.

Whole_grain_bread

Remember:  Being brown doesn’t make bread necessary whole wheat or whole grain! In addition, the term “multi-grain” bread, “rye” bread, “5 grain” or “7 grain” bread also doesn’t mean that they always use whole grain in their formulation! In United States and Canada, only bread labeled with “whole wheat” truly uses whole wheat flour in their processing. Other “wheat bread” may simply use a combination of white refined flour and whole wheat flour.

The key word to look for when you are shopping for bead is “whole”!

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