If you are anything like me you have to have a little sweet treat after dinner!
Let’s talk mindful indulgences!
FrontPaige.net is a place for all things gluten-free, baking and lifestyle. One thing I hardly share much about is my passion for fitness, simply because I don’t wear makeup when I workout, and find it really hard to want to take pictures of me working out. I know, crazy haha! I have been a very active gal from the day I learned how to walk, because I didn’t walk first, I freaking ran! By age 6 I had run full force into the kitchen table after my mom and dad telling me not to run into the house, but hey the dead tooth didn’t stop me from moving!
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delish, healthy and tastes like a real deal chocolate chip cookie! healthy never tasted so good!
Ingredients
– 2 scoops of vanilla protein powder (my go to is “orgain” vanilla pea protein
– 2 tbsp of creamy peanut butter
– 2 tbsp of ground flax seed
– 1 tbsp of almond flour
– 1/4 cup of water or almond milk
– 1 tsp of maple syrup
– 1/3 cup of enjoy life or lilys chocolate chocolate chips
Instructions
1. Preheat your oven to 350° F and place a piece of parchment on your baking sheet
2. in a bowl mix together your peanut butter and your maple syrup
3. next add in your vanilla protein powder, almond flour and ground flax
4. add your water to the dough and mix until the dough thins and all the components are combined
5. fold in your chocolate chips until well combined
6. using a cookie scoop or two spoons place cookie dough rounds on the prepped cookie sheet and bake for 12-15 minutes until set
makes 10-12 cookies: *subject to change if you make more or less, the below is based on 10 cookies
calories: 44 per cookie
protein: 3g per cookie
fiber: 1.5g per cookie
carbs: 2.7g per cookie
In the post I wrote about my birthday – see here – I talked about how I have a hummingbird like personality and I am realizing that is just who I am! I love to workout, walk my dog and just live an active lifestyle! When it comes to what I eat, I stick to a healthy diet 80% of the time, and indulge because it is truly my job to taste my recipes 20% of the time. I am all about recipe testing a cake and eating a slice of cake but also having a salad for lunch! You gotta live your life guys!
That being said, when I wake up, I always crave sweet. I am very much not a savory breakfast person…unless I am going out to brunch then I am all about the savory! But 9/10 at home I reach for my healthy fiber protein cookies for a late night bite or an early morning coffee treat because they are truly healthy for you!
Let’s circle back to balance. Like I said, I very much could turn this website and my instagram into a fitness and health account about tracking this and tracking that, but that is not me. But if you are tracking for your wedding, post partum or just because you feel like you need to, I have linked the macros for these cookies in the recipe for you! When it comes to balance and the balance of eating sugar I really try to move away from sugar, that is why most of my recipes – with the exception of course to some – have 0 added sugar in them. I feel the negative effects on refined sugar in my body, I feel sluggish, my muscles ache when I walk my dog and tbh my migraines become unbearable! These cookies are added sugar free and I use high quality chocolate that again doesn’t add white sugar so there really isn’t a reason to eat the whole batch of 10 in 1 night! (because I totally do HA!).
By simple switches from a stack of French toast to a few protein cookies, I have found that my migraines have gotten better and that you can mindfully indulge and feel that you are truly truly indulging!
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