Banana Oatmeal Bars

My friend Christine sent me this awesome recipe! It's super easy to make (like 2 minute prep) and tastes amazing! I hope you enjoy it too.

Ingredients:
3 ripe bananas, mashed
1/3 cup applesauce - (I used one medium pink lady apple and used a cheese grater to make it into applesauce, it came out to exactly 1/3 of a cup.)
2 cups of oats
1/4 cup of almond milk
1/2 cup of raisins
1 tsp. vanilla
1 tsp. cinnamon

Mix all of the ingredients together in the order they are listed and then bake in a circular pan (pie pan) at 350 F (180 C) for 20 minutes.

I looked up all of the ingredients on a calorie counting website and for the entire pan it came up to about 800 calories. I used a circular pan and cut the "bars" into pie pieces. Based on the calorie counter, it's about 100 calories per pie piece.

**Note - this is not an exact calorie count. I was just curious to know how "healthy" this snack really was. For me, it's an A+! It's sweet, but healthier than a chocolate bar!

Banana Peanut Butter Ice Cream

This is another recipe I found on Pinterest! It is so easy and healthy to make.


Banana Peanut Butter Ice Cream

 Ingredients:
1 Banana
1 Tablespoon Peanut Butter

Slice one banana and place it in a freezer safe container until frozen. (I usually freeze it over night or freeze a bunch of bananas in individual containers so I have them ready when I want to make this recipe.) Add the frozen banana slices and the peanut butter to the blender and blend until the mixture is the consistency of ice cream. You will have to stir the mixture and then blend again 2-3 times.

I have also substituted Nutella for the peanut butter since my husband doesn't like peanut butter.