December 6th 2010
Good grief, woke up this morning feeling like I could eat a house, gingerbread house would be ideal..Its days like this that make eating healthy hard. The days when you just want to curl up around a nice bowl of ice cream swimming in chocolate syrup dotted with sprinkles and cherries. Oddly my bananas, apples and homemade granola just aren't satiating the sugar craving. =( I keep telling myself its ok because I will live longer this way... Since I am not going to cave and eat something naughty I will share a recipe instead.
Elly's Super Easy Granola – orange dream
1 container old fashioned oats
2-3 cups of honey (to taste- we don't like ours too sweet)
1-2 teaspoons orange extract
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
¼ cup canola oil
¼ cup flax seed
as many nuts as you like -we use pecans, walnuts and sunflower seeds
dried fruit- we like cranberries but you can use any you like.
Preheat over to 250 degrees
Mix all ingredients together except the dried fruit. Pour into a large baking pan (I buy the big foil ones from the dollar store and reuse several times). Place in heated oven and bake up to 2 hours or until oats are nice and golden, stirring occasionally. Cool, mix in dried fruit and place in air tight container.
We no longer buy cereal, this is what we eat instead. Its wonderful as a cereal with rice milk, on yogurt, or all by itself. Its a bit more expensive to make your own but you dont have to worry about getting all the yucky stuff that is in highly processed foods. Even if all you do is change from store bought cereal to wholesome granola the health benefits are great. The added fiber will help lower cholesterol and keep bowels moving and happy.
Enjoy your day friends.
E
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