“It isn’t magic, but who’s never felt better after a cookie?” ― Rosie Pease
Who doesn’t love cookies? The thing is, almost every pre-pack cookie in the Great Wide World is loaded with sugar and a variety of other genetically modified components that just aren’t healthy for you. Even homemade cookies are filled with one sweetening agent or another. Carbohydrates loaded with nutrition free, empty calories. So when I find a recipe for a cookie that’s healthy enough for an actual meal, I get excited.
When they taste really great too, I get doubly excited. So excited that I want to share them with anyone who’ll listen. I found just such a cookie, one Saturday morning, a while back. I had the blues; somedays it just seems like life isn’t fair. So while I was in my funk, listening to B.B. King and Sunnyland Slim, looking for something to cheer me up. I came across these COOKIES: Vegan Apple Oatmeal Cookies.
They’re amazing. The recipe didn’t make many and that’s a good thing because between Vickie and I, they didn’t make it through the weekend. They were sweet too, in fact next time I make them, I’ll probably cut the brown sugar by 30% or so. The recipe called for one large apple, I used two small ones and had a hard time incorporating all the apple with the dough but we liked the cookies with all the chunky apple pieces. The more apple, the better as far as we’re concerned. I left the peels on too, and it made the cookies very colorful.
Finding and creating foods that satisfy our natural human craving for sweet treats, yet still provide balanced nutrition, is an art. In our ready made prepackaged society, there are thousands of products out there that use our natural cravings, to seduce us into obesity and poor health. Make your own. Some of the natural sweeteners I use that actually contain some nutrition, to go along with the calories are: Date Sugar, Coconut Sugar, Maple Syrup and Honey.
“Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.” ― Orson Welles