Chocolate Coconut Oat Bars

Ingredients

• 1 cup almond butter
• 2/3 cup honey
• 1/2 cup butter
• 2 cups old-fashioned oats 
• 4 tablespoons ground flax seed
• 1cup sweetened flaked coconut
• 1 cup semi- sweet chocolate chips(you can use milk chocolate or dark chocolate too)

Directions

1.  Line an 9x13 square pan with foil.
2. Melt  the butter, almond butter and honey over medium to low heat, stirring constantly.  Remove from heat once it is melted.
3.  Pour in the oats and the flax seed.  Stir until combined.
4.  Stir in the coconut and chocolate chips.  
5.  Pour into the foil-lined pan and place in the fridge.
5. Once they're firm, you can remove from pan, peel back foil and cut into size you like.


Changes that I made:
Exchanged peanut butter for almond butter.
Doubled the recipe!

I found this recipe at:
http://www.aturtleslifeforme.com/2012/02/chocolate-granola-bars.html

Harvest Muffins

Ingredients

• Brown rice flour – 1 cup
• Old Fashioned Oats – 1 cup
• Baking Soda – 3 tsp
• Cinnamon – 2 tsp
• Light Brown Sugar – 1 cup
• Pureed Apple – 3/4 cup
• Rice Drink – 3/4 cup
• Vanilla Protein Powder – 3 tbsp
• Eggs – 3
• Raisins – 1/2 cup
• Chopped almonds – 1/2 cup
• Flaked coconut – 1/2 cup
• Pineapple-crushed (with juice) – 1 cup
• Shredded carrots – 2 cups
• Olive Oil – 3 tbsp

Preheat oven to 350-degrees F.

Blend together flour, oats, baking soda, cinnamon, sugar, and protein powder.  In a separate container, mix apple, rice drink, eggs, and olive oil.  Pour liquid mixture into dry powder blend with mixing.

Mix in: raisins, walnuts, coconut, carrots, and pineapple. 

Prepare a muffin pan using baking spray to avoid sticking.  Spoon mixture into individual muffin cups, until each cup is nearly full, as these muffins don’t rise much.  Bake 25-minutes, or until golden brown and mixture comes clean to a toothpick.  Cool and serve.

Makes 24-regular sized muffins.

My notes:

I exchanged:
rice drink for buttermilk
brown rice flour for wheat flour
pureed apple for apple butter
light brown sugar for white sugar
almonds for walnuts
crushed pineapple for pineapple tidbits
I also extended baking time 5 minutes.
Special note:for larger muffins add 5 minutes.
I pureed the apple in a blender.

I based my recipe on the recipe found at:
http://livefitblog.com/2009/11/16/healthy-harvest-muffins/