Showing posts with label healthy snacks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label healthy snacks. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 16, 2025

Peanut Butter Protein Bites #Recipe by @LibbyKlein

Libby Klein Not a very elegant looking snack, but these are very tasty, and easy to make. Just a few simple ingredients, a wooden spoon, and you're on your way. This makes a nice break from all the sweets and treats I keep pushing on you. And you won't get a sugar crash in the middle of the afternoon. These are just big enough for a tasty bite to hold you over without making you too full to eat a proper meal.


Peanut Butter Protein Bites

Put everything in a large mixing bowl or your food processor.

1/2 cup natural peanut butter
1/4 cup honey
1/3 cup protein powder of choice
1/3 cup flaxseed meal
1/2 cup rolled oats
1 tablespoon chia seeds

Pulse to combine.

Fold in 1 tablespoon mini chocolate chips. (I use Lily's stevia sweetened dark chocolate)

Form into golf ball sized bites. Store in an airtight container at room temperature.

What is your favorite healthy snack? Let me know in the comments.


Vice and VirtueLayla Virtue, a blue-haired, 30-something recovering alcoholic and former cop is trying to reinvent herself as a musician—between AA meetings, dodging eccentric neighbors at her trailer park, and reconnecting with her mysterious dad—in this ​unforgettable new mystery brimming with hilarity and heart.


Layla is taking her new life one day at a time from the Lake Pinecrest Trailer Park she now calls home. Being alone is how she likes it. Simple. Uncomplicated. Though try telling that to the group of local ladies who are in relentless pursuit of Layla as their new BFF, determined to make her join them for coffee and donuts.

After her first career ended in a literal explosion, Layla’s trying to eke out a living as a rock musician. It’s not easy competing against garage bands who work for tacos and create their music on a computer, while all she has is an electric guitar and leather-ish pants. But Layla isn’t in a position to turn down any gig. Which is why she’s at an 8-year-old’s birthday party, watching as Chuckles the Clown takes a bow under the balloon animals. No one expects it will be his last . . .

Who would want to kill a clown—and why? Layla and her unshakable posse are suddenly embroiled in the seedy underbelly of the upper-class world of second wives and trust fund kids, determined to uncover what magnetic hold a pudgy, balding clown had over women who seem to have everything they could ever want. Then again, Layla knows full well that people are rarely quite what they seem—herself included . . .

Silly Libby
Libby Klein writes ridiculously funny murder mysteries from her Northern Virginia office with a very naughty calico Persian named Miss Eliza Doolittle, and a sweet black Lab named Vader. She can name that tune for 70s and 80s rock in the first few notes, and she's translated her love of classic rock into her Layla Virtue Mysteries. Libby was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease that prevents her from eating gluten without exploding. Because bread is one of her love languages, she includes the recipes for gluten free goodies in her Cape May based Poppy McAllister series. Most of her hobbies revolve around travel, and eating, and eating while traveling. She insists she can find her way to any coffee shop anywhere in the world, even while blindfolded. Follow all of her nonsense on her website www.LibbyKleinBooks.com/Newsletter/

Tuesday, October 22, 2024

Edible Witches' Brooms for a Healthy #Halloween by author @CleoCoyle



From Cleo Coyle: Sweep away your Halloween munchies with these tasty, healthful snacks in the shape of witches' brooms. They not only look cute, they're delicious. (Honestly, I can't stop eating them.) And they're wonderful fun for kids...



Cleo Coyle writes two 
bestselling mystery series 
with her husband. 
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🎃 A Note from Cleo

Easily made with string cheese, mini peppers, and celery sticks, these witty, witchy treats (say that 3 times fast) are not only fun for kids, but they're also perfect for adult parties because they pair beautifully with a chilled glass of white wine...oops, I mean that magic "feel good" potion made from the juice of crushed vine-ripened orbs... 

Now let's sweep away our troubles and make some edible brooms!



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Cleo's 
Witches' Brooms


Yields...as many as you like!

Ingredients:

String cheese 
Celery stalks 
Mini Peppers (or large pitted black or green olives)

Directions: To make each broom, cut the string cheese into thirds. Slice celery stalks into thin but sturdy slivers. Cut mini peppers (or large olives) into thin rings. 



Make a shallow incision at the top of the string cheese cylinder and insert one end of the thin celery stick. You now have a broom handle. Slip the pepper ring around the cheese and slide it near the handle. 




Now all you have to do is slice the cheese into broom bristles. The best way to do this is with sharp kitchen shears. 



Serve them up on a pretty plate and watch them quickly fly away...into hungry mouths!


STORING NOTE: If making a few hours in advance of a party, store in the refrigerator. Be sure to cover the plate or tray with plastic wrap to prevent the cheese from drying out, and...




Eat with Halloween joy! 

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of The Coffeehouse Mysteries and
Haunted Bookshop Mysteries

Cleo (Alice) with her husband, Marc


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