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Healthy Stuffed Mushrooms

Melissa King 4 Comments

With the holiday’s coming up, I was thinking about my favorite kinds of appetizers and finger foods I would like to make.  One of my absolute faves is stuffed mushrooms.

I could easily pop like five of those suckers in without realizing.  Since most recipes call for cream cheese or shredded cheese, I wanted to lighten mine up so it was okay to have more than a couple. These babies didn’t last long in my house.

These are really easy to make and you can even do the filling the night before your party and them fill and bake the mushrooms right before your guests arrive.

Stuffed Mushrooms

Healthy Stuffed Mushrooms

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Prep Time 20 min Cook Time 20 min

Ingredients

  • 16 mushrooms
  • 2 cloves garlic
  • 1/2 carrot roughly chopped
  • 1/2 tsp minced onion
  • 1/2 pkg firm tofu drained and patted dry
  • 2 T grapeseed oil
  • 2 T parsley chopped fine
  • 1/4 cup whole wheat panko bread crumbs
  • 1 T nutritional yeast
  • salt and pepper to taste

Instructions

  1. Remove the stems from mushrooms and set aside.
  2. Place the carrot, mushroom stems and garlic in the food processor to dice.
  3. In a skillet pan, saute the carrots, mushroom stems, garlic, onion, salt and grapeseed oil to soften.
  4. Set aside to cool.
  5. Preheat oven to 350.
  6. Once the mixture is cooled, put it back in the food processor with the tofu, parsley nutritonal yeast and bread crumbs and mix until combined.
  7. Place mushroom caps on a greased baking sheet and spoon mixture inside each one.
  8. Bake for 20 minutes or until you start to see moisture under the mushroom caps. Enjoy!

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Cranberry Coconut Donuts (Vegan)

Melissa King 16 Comments

Cranberry Coconut Donuts that are vegan.  Once again here is another donut recipe.  This time it’s healthy cranberry donuts.   They are just so darn easy to make.

I think out of all the donuts I have made so far, these cranberry coconut donuts are my daughter’s favorite.  She puts cranberries in everything.

In our house, cranberries have become a bit of a bribing tool.  “Meadow, eat your tomatoes.” She replies, “No.” “I will give you a cranberry if you do.”

It works too!  All the moms reading this will totally understand.  🙂  So I knew these would be a hit for her.

 

Cranberry Coconut Donuts

 

Did I mention that these were healthy too?  They also freeze well for when you need quick breakfast ideas.

Cranberry Coconut Donuts

Cranberry Coconut Donuts

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Prep Time 10 min Cook Time 14 min

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350.
  2. In a medium bowl combine the flour, coconut, salt and baking powder.
  3. In a large bowl, combine the sugar, oil, applesauce and vanilla.
  4. After that, add in the egg, milk and orange zest.
  5. Then fold in the cranberries.
  6. Spoon onto greased donut pans and bake for 10-12 minutes. Enjoy!

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Healthy Gingerbread Donuts

Melissa King 22 Comments

So the holiday season is officially here.  Let’s bring on the food!

These donuts are full of flavor, with none of the bad stuff.  My kids and husband could not stop eating them.

I know it is going to be a good recipe when Meadow is willing to lick the beater.  She insisted on wearing her Thanksgiving hat she made at school.  Even Olive had a taste.  I wasn’t able to get a picture of that, but here she is eating a cucumber.

Healthy Gingerbread Donuts

Healthy Gingerbread Donuts

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Prep Time 10 min Cook Time 15 min

Ingredients

  • 2 1/4 cup spelt flour
  • 1 cup applesauce (unsweetened)
  • 1/3 cup coconut palm sugar
  • 1/4 cup molasses
  • 1/4 cup light oil (I used organic safflower)
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 1 egg (I used a flax egg)
  • 1 tsp cinnamon
  • 1/2 T ginger
  • 1/2 tsp nutmeg
  • 1/4 tsp cloves

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350.
  2. Mix all the dry ingredients in one bowl.
  3. Mix wet into another.
  4. Add wet to dry slowly. Be careful not to over-mix.
  5. Spoon batter into greased donut pans.
  6. Bake for 15 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean.
  7. Place on a wire rack to cool.

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Recipe Notes

For another yummy gingerbread recipe, click here or here .

Enjoy!

Pumpkin Spice Breakfast Cookies

Melissa King 124 Comments

I have some pumpkin spice breakfast cookies for you! Cookies are great any time of the day, but it’s awesome when you can eat cookies for breakfast!

No need to feel like you are cheating with these healthy pumpkin breakfast cookies.  They are healthy!

 

pumpkin spice breakfast cookies

 

I created this dish because I had some leftover pumpkin from my chocolate covered pumpkin donuts.  Breakfast cookies are great for the mornings when you are too busy to make breakfast.

They travel well too, so pack them with the kids for a breakfast on the go.  These pumpkin spice breakfast cookies also freeze well so feel free to make a big batch and freeze some.  That is what I do.  So here you go.

 

pumpkin spice breakfast cookies

 

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Pumpkin Spice Breakfast Cookies

Pumpkin Spice Breakfast Cookies

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Prep Time 10 min Cook Time 15 min

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350. 
  2. Mix all the dry ingredients in a large bowl . 
  3. Mix all the wet ingredients into a medium bowl .
  4. Whisk the wet until well mixed and add wet to dry, being careful not to over mix.  
  5. Spoon onto a lined or greased baking sheet .
  6. Bake for about 15-18 minutes.

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Pumpkin Spice Breakfast Cookies

Healthy Gingerbread Cookies

Melissa King 117 Comments

Thanksgiving is almost here, and now is the perfect time to start rolling out the gingerbread recipes!  Here’s a healthier version of an old favorite, the gingerbread cookie.  The gingerbread cookie is a great recipe to do with your kids.  My daughter, Meadow, helped me make and cut these gingerbread cookies out.  She also dumped flour all over my kitchen counter and spooned handfuls of dough in her mouth when she thought I wasn’t looking.  Gotta love kids.

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Gingerbread Cookies - My Whole Food Life

Most gingerbread cookies I have made in the past end up hard as rocks.  I love that these cookies are a bit on the softer side.  Probably due to the applesauce I put in them.  These cookies have very little fat and contain no processed sugar so feel free to have a few!

Healthy Gingerbread Cookies

Healthy Gingerbread Cookies

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Prep Time 2 hr Cook Time 8 min Serves 18 Cookies     adjust servings

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. Mix the dry ingredients in one bowl.
  2. Mix wet in another.
  3. Add dry to wet and mix only until combined.
  4. Remove the dough from the bowl and cut into two equal parts.
  5. Wrap the dough in plastic and refrigerate for at least 2 hours.
  6. Preheat oven to 350.
  7. After two hours, remove the dough from the fridge.
  8. Roll the dough onto a floured surface until it is about 1/4 inch thick. Please use additional flour if necessary.
  9. Cut dough into desired shapes and place them onto a lined baking sheet.
  10. Bake the cookies for about 8 minutes and then let them cool a bit before removing.
  11. Set them aside to completely cool before decorating. Enjoy!

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Pumpkin Granola Bars (Vegan and Gluten Free)

Melissa King 101 Comments

Pumpkin Granola Bars.  Granola bars are so great.  I just love these vegan granola bars.   Not only are they healthy and easy to make, but they travel well and make good snacks when you are on the go.

But let’s face it, the store bought granola bars can not be trusted to be healthy.  Making your own is great because you can control the ingredient and sugar.

After my post for the peanut butter granola bars, there were requests for other flavors.  So naturally I had to try pumpkin granola bar recipe.

 

Pumpkin Granola Bars

 

This recipe is very similar to my pumpkin granola.  These bars are a bit on the soft side because of the pumpkin, but they taste delicious!  They only took minutes to make.

You can make a big batch and freeze some too.  That works great if you get a pumpkin craving in the spring like I sometimes do. 🙂

 

Pumpkin Granola Bars

 

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Pumpkin Granola Bars

Pumpkin Granola Bars

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Prep Time 10 min Cook Time 25 min

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350. 
  2. Mix all the dry ingredients together in one bowl. 
  3. Mix wet into another. 
  4. Combine wet to dry really well so all the oats get coated. 
  5. Line a baking pan with parchment paper.  I used an odd sized pan, but an 8X8 or 9X9 pan would work well.  Give yourself enough of the paper so it sticks out the sides.  This will make the bars easier to pull out and cut with a pizza cutter. 
  6. Using the extra paper, press the bars with your palms so they are packed well and evenly flat.
  7. Bake in the oven for about 20-25 minutes.  Let the bars cool completely before cutting.

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Recipe Notes

Store in an airtight container separated by parchment paper. They should keep for about two weeks. Enjoy!

Pumpkin Granola Bars