Healthy Snacking

Chocolate Chunk Muesli Snack Cookies

Chocolate Chunk Muesli Snack Cookies made in 1-bowl with muesli, almond butter and dark chocolate. Oil-free, gluten-free, and naturally sweet!

Cookie Confessions P1: I’ve never used muesli in any of the conventional muesli ways.

Nope, I’ve never enjoyed it soaked, on the stovetop, or in yogurt.

But I do use it in regularly in cookies, so I can work my way backwards from creative to generic, yeah?

I’m so excited to share these Chocolate Chunk Muesli Snack Cookies with you!

Well, maybe not these cookies specifically, (that might break my heart) but the recipe is up for the taking!

You’re going to love their hearty texture, short ingredient list, and gooey dark chocolate chunks.

Let’s get baking!

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Strawberry Banana Almond Butter Granola

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Strawberry banana granola made oil-free with creamy almond butter and sweetened with maple syrup. Gluten-free with a grain-free option!

Hi friends!

I bought my first big carton of fresh strawberries this week.

They were the big bulbous deep red ones ones that you can’t help but stare at long and hard before sinking your teeth in.

Strawberry season is a little late this year in Virginia because of all the warm to cold to warm to cold weather patterns.

That’s OK, though, because I’ve been working a granola recipe with all of the strawberry vibes without disrupting the strawberry fields.

Remember that time I made Oil-Free Chunky Tahini Granola and became a little (OK, a lot) obsessed with it?

Well, I’m back with a new oil-free version today that’s equally delicious.

It starts with gluten-free oats, almonds, pecans, and shredded coconut.

Creamy almond butter replaces added oils and maple syrup adds unrefined natural sweetness.

Stir in my new favorite strawberry banana chips, and you have a strawberry banana bash!

I left the clusters fairly “chunky” here, but if you prefer a finer consistency try adding everything to the blender and pulsing for a few times to even things out.

This Strawberry Banana Almond Butter Granola is what I want to wake up to in spring and every day always.

It comes together in under 30 minutes with ingredients you can count on both hands.

Let’s do it!

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Lemon-y Smashed Pea Toasts

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Lemon-y smashed pea toasts with herb-y smashed peas on toasted bread paired with fresh garnishes. Perfect for a fun snack, appetizer, or light meal.

Dan had the TV on the other night watching something.

Our “TV room” is connected to the kitchen area to create one giant space in our condo, so it’s usually a constant sound competition of clanging dishes, running water, and shouting newscasters!

I’m not much of a TV watcher (I’m more of a binge watcher of Netflix shows, ya know?) so when Dan has it on I usually tune out the different vibrations of mumbling from channel to channel.

“Hey. Have you heard that smashed pea toast is the new avocado toast?” he asked, smirking.

“What?!” I shrieked, suddenly totally engaged with the screen.

It’s like this kid talking on the camera KNEW that I was planning on sharing these Lemon-y Smashed Pea Toasts with you this week!

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Peanut Butter Banana Bread Swirl Muffins

By Flora & Vino 14 Comments

1-bowl peanut butter banana bread swirl muffins! Oil-free, gluten-free, and naturally sweetened with bananas and coconut sugar. Perfect for meal prep!

I feel like I’ve been ever so slowly and painfully moving through quicksand all week.

Struggling through a metaphorical mess without a whole lot to show for it.

In other words, it’s been a week.

But then there’s that archetypical voice in my head, the one in the action movie that warns, “Stop moving! It’ll only make you sink faster!”

Doh. Well, guys, I’m a goner.

But wait!

These Peanut Butter Banana Bread Swirl Muffins are proof that I did in fact, accomplish something.

I made muffins, yo.

Last week I shared with you a cookie recipe that started out as a muffin and now I’m sharing a muffin recipe that started out as a bread.

Isn’t it funny the way that recipe ideas grow and evolve?

Flora & Vino isn’t exactly hurting for lack of muffin recipes, so I originally intended for these muffins to be bread!

But there’s something so perfectly concise and oh so approachable about a muffin, isn’t there?

You guys obviously thought so, too, because when I asked you if you preferred this combination as muffins or bread, muffins WON.

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Blueberry Banana Breakfast Cookies

By Flora & Vino 14 Comments

Hearty breakfast cookies made with oats, almond butter, and blueberries. Sugar-free and naturally sweetened with banana and applesauce.

Happy Easter!

I hope you’re celebrating with a big basket of your favorites.

Spring has always felt like one big celebration to me, mostly because my sister and I have week apart Aries birthdays, with Easter falling somewhere in between birthday bashes.

Can I tell you guys a secret?

Tomorrow is, in fact, my birthday, and it’s a big one.

Yup, the big 3-0.

I know, I know, its no big deal in the macrocosm of time, but for me in my daily grind, it feels epic.

If age is just a number, then breakfast is just another meal, and for my first meal of the new decade, I want cookies.

These hearty Blueberry Banana Breakfast Cookies are the perfect way to start your day!

They’re 5- ingredients, oil-free, gluten-free, sugar-free, and popping with blueberry banana flavor.

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Oil-Free Chunky Tahini Granola

By Flora & Vino 25 Comments

Easy oil-free chunky granola with tahini and an optional chocolate twist. Perfect for breakfast, snack, dessert, and eating by the handful.

Happy first official day of spring, friends!

I’m writing this post curled up on the couch with Harper, watching white snowflakes descend on us from outside the window.

Spring, indeed.

I was sort of kicking myself for not having something “brighter” to share with you today, but then everything happens for a reason, yes?

The reason being this Oil-Free Chunky Tahini Granola that you can make not one way, but two!

If I had a Nor’easter survival guide, you can bet this extra chunky granola would be in there.

It’s perfectly sweet and crunchy and comes together in 30 mins with simple ingredients from your cabinet!

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Super Green Fat Balls

By Flora & Vino 6 Comments

5-ingredient balls packed with greens and healthy fats. Kale, coconut butter, and avocado with protein powder and unrefined coconut sugar.

I’m finally home from California, and, as what tends to happen after I’m out of town, I came home craving all of the greens.

It might not be the kind of greens you were thinking, though.

Were you thinking a kale salad with a green smoothie on the side?

I’ll save that for later.

These Super Green Fat Balls are packed with leafy greens, my favorite healthy fats and protein!

They’re perfect to meal prep for a satisfying snack, dessert, or anytime treat for Saint Patrick’s Day Weekend.

If anyone tries to pinch you, just throw a fat ball at them.

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Minty Mango Chip Shamrock Shakes

By Flora & Vino 4 Comments

Creamy minty mango chip shamrock shakes with frozen mango, spinach, avocado, cacao nibs, and mint. Perfect to reset with greens after a late night!

Did I ever tell you guys that I used to pretend to be a leprechaun for my little sister?

Every year she put out a leprechaun trap carefully crafted with messy Scotch tape loops and alluring marker lines.

She left the trap by her bed, and I snuck in, dumped my piggy bank onto the taped masterpiece, and wrote something back in left-handed leprechaun scrawl.

Something that a fiesty leprechaun would write, like, “OH! You caught me!…Not my gold!”

I don’t know why, but it was important to me that she believed those little rascals were real and that she caught ’em.

This year, we’re catching Minty Mango Chip Shamrock Shakes!

No elaborate traps necessary– you just need a blender and lots of greens!

Ready?

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Cacao Chickpea Cookie Dough “Snackwiches”

By Flora & Vino 4 Comments

Cacao chickpea cookie dough “Snackwiches” made with chickpeas, nut butter, and your favorite cookies. Perfect for a snack or dessert.

What was your favorite ice cream flavor as a kid?

I went through a bunch of favorites– mint chocolate chip, cookies ‘n’ cream, butter pecan…

I’d stand in the line at Baskin Robbins with my family, changing my order over and over again in my head until it was my turn standing in front of the guy at the cash register.

At the last minute, I’d revert back to my original choice.

Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough, duh!

I’m bringing it back in this post with this 6-ingredient Cacao Chickpea Cookie Dough that comes together in under 10 minutes for a nutritious snack or dessert!

Smash it between equally delicious snack cookies and you’ve got yourself a Cacao Chickpea Cookie Dough Snack-wich.

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No-Sugar-Added Raspberry Chia Seed Jam

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No-sugar-added raspberry chia seed jam sweetened with orange and thickened with chia seeds. A refrigerator staple to spread on everything!

Happy almost Valentine’s Day, loves.

I’ve got an easy recipe for you today that’s fresh and festive.

You’re going to love this No-Sugar-Added Raspberry Chia Seed Jam!

I’ve kept this bright berry spread under the radar for a few months now, waiting to share it during citrus season when romance is in the air.

It’s thick, spreadable, naturally sweet, and requires only 4 ingredients and 20 minutes to mix up.

To be fair, I DID warn you about my current PB&J phase.

And who would I be to share a jam recipe without a sufficiently quirky peanut butter pairing?

Try these Apple Chip PB&J Bites for a fun grain-free and gluten-free twist on snacking.

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