Naturally Sweet Carob No Bake Cookies

I modified this recipe  from all recipes to use olive oil since I was out of coconut oil and to leave out cocoa since I am really not supposed to have chocolate.

1. combine in saucepan:

1 cup honey
1/2 cup olive oil
1/2 cup carob powder

2. Slowly stir and bring to a boil then let boil for 2 minutes and remove from heat.

3. Add:

2 cups rolled oats
1 cup peanut butter
1 cup unsweetened coconut flakes
1 teaspoon vanilla

4. Drop spoonfuls onto greased cookie sheet (or parchment paper or my favorite a cookie mat) and let cool in refrigerator for about 20 minutes.

Yum!!

Be Inspired,

Janelle Joy

Healthy Coconut Cream Pie

livinghealthywithchocolate.com/desserts/paleo-coconut-cream-pie-1203/

and coconut flour crust from thediyfoodguy.com/2015/01/27/5-minute-coconut-flour-pie-crust/

Homemade Sweet Potato Fries

While at the Grocery store today, I saw a bag of sweet potato fries for$ 4.99 for a 1 lb bag.  I started craving them but didn't want to spend that much so I went over to the produce section and found yams for $1.59 per lb.  I made 1 lb of these fries myself for only 1.50= a savings of $3.49:

Ingredients:
2 Medium size Yams or Sweet Potatoes (about 1 lb)
1 Tablespoon of olive oil
Garlic salt with parsley

1)Preheat oven to 350 F. Wash and cut sweet potatoes in half and then lengthwise.  The slice  into long skinny "fries" leaving the skin on.

2) Put olive oil in a bowl and put the prepared sweet potato fries into the bowl and toss them with the oil.  Then sprinkle with the garlic salt with parsley or other seasonings as desired and toss again.

3) Put fries on a cookie sheet in a single layer and bake at 350 F until softened.  Then turn the oven up to broil for a couple of minutes to crisp the fries a little.  Careful it is easy to forget and leave them in too long.

Remove from the cookie sheet, cool slightly and serve warm! MMMM!

Homemade Freezer Dough for Whole Wheat Rolls

• Use 1/2 of the dough from Whole Wheat and Oatmeal Sandwich Rolls. (I like to make 24 fresh sandwich rolls and then freeze the others for more fresh rolls later instead of making them all at once)
• Divide the dough into 24 small balls and put them evenly on a large cookie sheet (I use a jelly roll pan). They look like you are ready to make cookies.
• Freeze the rolls on the cookie sheet. Once frozen, you can remove them from the cookie sheet and place them into freezer bags.  This way you can more easily remove only h ow many rolls you want to make at a time.

When ready to bake, remove the desired amount of rolls from the freezer and place on a greased cookie sheet to thaw and rise. (12 rolls per cookie sheet maximum) This process may take a few hours depending on the heat of your kitchen.

Bake at 425 F for 10-15 minutes.

Estimated cost: $3.66 for  dough for 24 rolls = $0.15 per roll.
My out of pocket cost: $0.00 (I used my storage items)