Peanut Butter Rice Cakes

I heard about this delicious dessert-like snack from my friend Alex. A few years ago she worked with a personal trainer  who told her to eat this snack after she worked out. The peanut butter and brown sugar make a bland rice cake taste amazing!

They are extremely easy and fast to make!

This little dessert is a great source of protein and energy, a reason why Alex's personal trainer wanted her to eat them after she worked out. They are not very high in calories, making them perfect to snack on during the day! One rice cake and a few teaspoons of light brown sugar are only 30 calories each. The natural peanut butter has 120mg of sodium rather than the 150mg in regular peanut butter. The natural peanut butter also has 8g of protein opposed to 7g in the regular. Another, healthier difference between natural peanut butter and regular is the amount of saturated fat. Natural peanut butter has 6% less saturated fat than the regular. This snack is good for recovering anorexics who need an immense amount of protein throughout the day. This snack will help you feel healthy, while still giving you protein. 

Fudge Brownies

I found a recipe for fudge brownies that makes 12 and are 148 calories each, so today I embarked on the healthy brownies mission. These brownies are great for a snack or for dessert after dinner. 

Image via Whole Living.

My brownies look nothing like the Whole Living photograph, but they were delicious!

Ingredients and Directions from Whole Living

I was quite nervous making these brownies because I have never made homemade brownies before, let alone natural homemade brownies. But to say the least, I am smitten. They were very easy to make and to my surprise, they taste great! The great thing about this recipe is replacing white flour with a much healthier whole wheat flour. Whole wheat flour is very low in saturated fat, cholesterol, and sodium. It also is a great source of dietary fiber having 4g at 16% of your total value based on a 2,000 calorie diet. Regular flour has less than 1g of dietary fiber. Sweet potato purée is substituted for oil. The sweet potato purée makes the brownies very moist and goes great with the chocolate. I definitely recommend this recipe to those looking for a healthy snack or dessert! 

Parents can provide healthy meals and desserts for their child in order to help prevent eating disorders. They can minimize the amount of junk food around the house, and provide more healthy desserts like this one!

Some of the ingredients used.

Welcome!

Welcome to my blog! I have joined the blogging community to post ideas and recipes for savory and scrumptious, yet healthy desserts. I want to provide healthy dessert recipes for those struggling with their weight or recovering from an eating disorder. I understand how hard it is to attain a healthy body weight after battling an eating disorder. Nutritionists work with patients to cure their anorexic thoughts and put them on a healthy food regimen, but after the therapy sessions are over it is all up to the patient to continue a healthy diet. My main purpose is to help people who have struggled with an eating disorder, or even those just looking for healthy recipes, to live a nutritionally healthy life. Anorexia nervosa is currently the third most common chronic illness among adolescents. I believe that if parents started their kids out eating healthy, many teenagers would not be dealing with the problems of eating disorders. I would love to help those looking for guidance with healthy eating. I hope you enjoy!

Image via Martha Stewart