VegetarianMastery-Lesson12

Practice using at least two of the healthy snack secrets from Lesson 12. Post your experience to the “Wholesome Foods” forum.

Chef Dina Knight Wholesome Snacks That’ll Make Your Mouth Water: Discover five underlying reasons for cravings, and how to address the root causes. Plus, recipes for wholesome brownies, ice cream, fudge, chocolate pudding, fruit bars, granola, savory popcorn, ginger oatmeal cookies, rice crispy bars (from puffed brown rice), and kale chips (similar to potato chips

“Cheesy” Popcorn Infinitely adaptable, popcorn is a great crunchy snack that takes both sweet and savory flavorings well. I particularly like the addition of garlic powder to this recipe, but you can leave it out if you’re planning a date night!! Ingredients: 1 Tablespoon olive oil ½ cup popcorn kernels 2 teaspoons fine grain sea salt

Spicy Oven-Roasted Chickpeas This is a perfect party snack, movie snack, or high protein snack to keep in your bag, and is a nice alternative to trail mixes. Ingredients: 1½ cups cooked chickpeas, drained and rinsed; or one 15 ounce can organic chickpeas, drained and rinsed 1 Tablespoon olive oil ½ teaspoon sea salt 2 teaspoons

Kale Chips Selfishly Serves 1! Ingredients: 1 large head of Curly Kale 1 Tablespoon Apple Cider Vinegar 1 Tablespoon Olive Oil Coarse sea salt, to taste Preparation: Preheat oven to 350°F. Wash and de-stem kale by holding the stalk in one hand, and pulling down on the leaves with the other. Tear into bite sized

Chipotle Kale Chips  Want a healthy crunchy snack that is loaded with nutrition but still tastes like you’re eating something naughty? Try kale chips! You can make your own with just a few minutes of work. On average they take 3½ – 4 hours to dry at a low-temperature setting. In more humid climates, they

Maple Nut Granola You can clean out your pantry with this recipe, adding whatever nuts, seeds, and dried fruits you’d like. I particularly like this combination, but feel free to experiment! Insanely simple, and really delicious, this recipe is best made with a mini food-processor, unless you’re making a lot. The ingredient quantities here are

Orange-Ginger Oatmeal Crunch Cookies Makes 2 dozen cookies. These crowd-pleasing cookies are modernized by the addition of complex carbohydrates, in the forms of whole grain flour and more natural sweeteners, in place of the simple carbohydrates from refined white flour and white sugar. A smaller amount of fat than usual comes from light walnut oil

Nut ‘n Raisin Rice Crispy Bars Makes 16 servings. This timeless treat is especially wonderful when prepared with Erewhon brand Crispy Brown Rice made, since 1966, with organic brown rice, organic brown rice syrup and sea salt. It’s great for people who don’t want cookies based on wheat or that contain gluten. The most popular

Apple-Raisin Squares Basic Fruit Bar Recipe. Makes 9 or 12. Ingredients for Crumb Pastry: 1½ cups rolled oats 1½ cups whole-wheat pastry flour ½ teaspoon sea salt ½ teaspoon aluminum-free baking powder ⅓ cup light walnut oil, Spectrum brand ⅓ cup brown rice syrup, pure maple syrup or agave syrup 1 teaspoon vanilla Ingredients for Fruit