Summer Salads : Fruit Salad w/ a honey yogurt Sauce

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Keep it Light and Fresh this summer with Simple Salads that will keep your taste buds motivated to stay healthy !!! Here is an Awesome Fruit salad and Yogurt Combo. It was amazing so I had to share. Plus it was something my kids would eat also.

 

 

Dress up your fruit salad with a savory honey yogurt sauce

 Curb that sweet tooth with just a dollop of yogurt on top of a bowl of natural goodness!!

 

 

 

 

 

Ingredients

• 2 cups plain yogurt (Greek yogurt to cut calories and fat)
• 2 tablespoons good honey
• 1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
• Seeds scraped from 1/2 vanilla bean, optional
• 1/2 orange, juiced
• 1 banana, sliced
• 1/2 pint fresh blueberries
• 1/2 pint fresh raspberries
• 1 pint fresh strawberries, hulled and cut in half
• 1 bunch seedless green grapes, halved

Directions

Combine the yogurt, honey, vanilla extract, and vanilla bean seeds in a bowl and set aside. Combine the orange juice and banana slices in a separate bowl. Add the berries and grapes and gently mix the fruit mixture together. Spoon the fruit into serving bowls and top with the yogurt.

 

I am sure you will love this recipe as much as me and my family have. Also you can make this as a prep snack meal for the entire week. Post pictures of you and Your Family enjoying summer Salads using the hashtag  #FFFlawless.

 

Enjoy

Stay Fit. Fine and Flawless

 

 

 

Nutritional Analysis Per Serving:

Calories193Total Fat0.5g Saturated Fat0g Protein7g

Total Carbohydrates 46g Sugar 32g Fiber 5g Cholesterol 3mg Sodium70 mg

 

 

Sweet Breakfast Treat

Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Pancake

 



 

I am always looking for healthy recipes that will calm this crazed sweet tooth of mine. My sweet tooth is like that little buzzing noise that gradually gets louder and louder until it is impossible to ignore, so to shut her ( yes her because I'm convinced she is a women scorned with fury :) These Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Pancakes hit the spot with out leave a guilty conscious behind !

Enjoy !!!!

 

 

 

 

 Produce

1	Banana, very ripe medium

Refrigerated

3 tbsp	Almond milk
1	Flax egg

Breakfast Foods

1/2 cup

Rolled oats

Condiments

1 tbsp

Almond butter

Baking & Spices

1/4 cup	Flour, whole wheat or unbleached  (or protein powder)
3 tbsp	Chocolate chips, semisweet
1/2 tsp	Vanilla extract
1 pinch	Salt
1 tsp	Baking powder

Oils & Vinegars

1 tbsp

Canola oil

 

Directions

 

1. Preheat a skillet to medium heat or about 300-325 degrees.
2. Prepare flax egg by mixing flaxseed meal and water and letting set for 3-5 minutes.
3. Mash your very ripe banana with baking powder.
4. Add flax egg, oil, salt, vanilla, almond butter, almond milk and stir.
5. Stir in oats and flour(protein powder) until just combined.
6. Sprinkle in chocolate chips and fold gently.
7. Scoop scant 1/4 cup measurements onto lightly greased griddle.
8. Cook for 2-4 minutes on each side - until golden brown.
9. Serve plain or with a small drizzle of maple syrup and a few additional chocolate chips for melting

 

Nutrition Information

Serving size: All 5 pancakes

Calories: 760

Fat: 37 g

Saturated fat: 7.8 g

Carbohydrates: 96 g

Sugar: 28 g

Fiber: 12.6 g

Protein: 14 g

 

For more info check out

http://minimalistbaker.com/chocolate-chip-oatmeal-cookie-pancakes/