Road Runner Posted December 24, 2018 Share #1 Posted December 24, 2018 Okay, maybe not healthy, but less damaging. When I have to have a cookie, I eat two of these. Low in fat and a reasonable number of calories for a sweet snack. Also, a respectable 3 grams of fiber. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donkpow Posted December 24, 2018 Share #2 Posted December 24, 2018 I was going to say fig newtons. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longjohn ★ Posted December 24, 2018 Share #3 Posted December 24, 2018 I worked for a doctor one year. He had bought a farm and it needed a lot of updating. I was often offered lunch or dinner with them if I was working late. His wife operated a health food store. Their food was interesting. They had health food cookies for desert. RG would say they tasted like ass. I made some oatmeal, cranberry, cookies with raw honey one time that actually tasted pretty good.I pretty much don’t bake or eat cookies anymore. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donkpow Posted December 24, 2018 Share #4 Posted December 24, 2018 Just now, Longjohn said: I pretty much don’t bake or eat cookies anymore. I have had a hankering for cookies for several weeks. When I go to the store I always forget. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
late Posted December 24, 2018 Share #5 Posted December 24, 2018 If you want healthier, try this: For each cup of flour, use 1 tbslp Pyure artifical sweetener and 2 to 4 tablsp of sugar or honey. You will get sweetness with a dramatic drop in sugar carbs, and without that horrid artificial sweetener taste. Mix half and half flour. Half wheat and hlaf almond or tigernut flour. I like tigernut flour, but it's expensive. If you recipe calls for honey, use half that amount of Dolcedi, and a tsp or tblsp of Pyure. Feel free to start with more, and then slowly reduce the amount of sweetener as your taste buds adjust. Almost Keto cranberry muffins. 1/2 cup sour cream 4 eggs 1 cup tigernut flour 1 cup almond flour 1 tsp vanilla extract 1 tblsp Pyure 3 or 4 tblsps sugar 2 tsp baking powder 1/2 tsp cinammon 1/4 tsp salt 1 cup cranberries (throw out the pale or imperfect ones) 1/4 to 1/2 cup chopped pecans - optional Combine sour cream, eggs, and vanilla extract and whip. Add the flour, sweetener, baking powder, cinnamon, and salt. Beat again until smooth. You will prob have to add a little water. Add cranberries and nut, put in muffin tin, and cook at 300F or 325F until the muffins are firm. Cooking time can vary with moisture, and the size of the muffins. I always make oversized muffins. 20-30 minutes, give or take. My wife doesn't usally like my keto experiments, she had 2 of those. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralphie ★ Posted December 24, 2018 Share #6 Posted December 24, 2018 Interesting. https://www.glutenfreeliving.com/blog/what-is-tigernut-flour/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longjohn ★ Posted December 24, 2018 Share #7 Posted December 24, 2018 6 minutes ago, late said: Half wheat and hlaf almond or tigernut flour. I like tigernut flour, but it's expensive. I’ll bet it’s expensive. How many tigers does it take to get a pound of tiger nut flour? 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airehead Posted December 24, 2018 Share #8 Posted December 24, 2018 I make an oatmeal chocolate chip that has zucchini in them along with nuts and cranberries. Pretty healthy for a cookie. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razors Edge ★ Posted December 24, 2018 Share #9 Posted December 24, 2018 I LOVE all Newtons! I assume it is because of the sugar, but still, I love them! And stick to the one sleeve = one serving rule. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Page Turner Posted December 24, 2018 Share #10 Posted December 24, 2018 ..there's a recipe in the "Diet for a Small Planet "cookbook for Kitchen Sink cookies that you can use as a basis for modified versions that are reasonably OK for you. These were very big in the hippie days. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralphie ★ Posted December 24, 2018 Share #11 Posted December 24, 2018 Just now, Page Turner said: ..there's a recipe in the "Diet for a Small Planet "cookbook for Kitchen Sink cookies that you can use as a basis for modified versions that are reasonably OK for you. That cookbook is a hippie classic! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shootingstar Posted December 24, 2018 Share #12 Posted December 24, 2018 We don't make cookies.. I haven't made them for over last 15 yrs. But we do buy one occasionally...then there are cake slices, tarts.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralphie ★ Posted December 24, 2018 Share #13 Posted December 24, 2018 I am a weak bastard! I ate two chocolate chip cookies today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Road Runner Posted December 24, 2018 Author Share #14 Posted December 24, 2018 My favorite cookie is a big ol' oatmeal and raisin like they sell at BJ's. Those things will kill you, but they taste wonderful! 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maddmaxx ★ Posted December 24, 2018 Share #15 Posted December 24, 2018 2 minutes ago, Road Runner said: My favorite cookie is a big ol' oatmeal and raisin like they sell at BJ's. Those things will kill you, but they taste wonderful! That's a healthy idea. Get your cookies from BJ's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MickinMD ★ Posted December 24, 2018 Share #16 Posted December 24, 2018 I don't have a healthy cookie, but I do have a "healthy-for-me" candy bar, the excellent-tasting Kirkland Nut Bar, even though 2/3 of its 210 Calories are fat (13g good unsat, 3g bad sat, 0g trans fats). It is the only full-sized bar I know of, including stuff labeled "healthy," that satisfies my chocolate cravings and doesn't make my type-II diabetic blood sugar spike - probably because of all the nuts and 6 g of protein and 7 g of fiber in the 40 g (1.4 oz.) bar. Note that fat takes longer to process and diabetics who go a while without eating or overnight and find their sugar still high often have a lot of fat traveling through their intestines. I haven't had that problem with this bar, but I rarely eat more than one in a day. My U. of Maryland hospital system diabetic nutritionist said it's ok and the fact it doesn't spike my sugar or cause higher AM numbers outweighs the minor fat downside as long as I'm averaging one per day or less. I have one about every 2-3 days. Costco sells boxes of 30 "Kirkland Nut Bars" for $16.99. It is loaded with almonds, cashews, and walnuts. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Page Turner Posted December 24, 2018 Share #17 Posted December 24, 2018 3 hours ago, RalphWaldoMooseworth said: That cookbook is a hippie classic! ...I still have my copy. It might be the oldest cookbook I own, since I tossed my mom's "Joy of Cooking" for a copy in better condition. Hers was falling apart. I think they printed it on recycled paper or something, because the paper in the original "Diet for a Small Planet has not aged well at all. But I still grab it every now and then for some recipe from the good ol' days living with the hippies in Minnesota. It's raining here (all day), so I have spent the day picking and squeezing some Meyer lemons, and making a lemon meringue pie. The downside of living with the hippies in MN was that I could not grow lemons there. I had already been spoiled by having a lemon tree in Italy, and once you've seen Naples, you can't be happy in Dubuque any more. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Page Turner Posted December 24, 2018 Share #18 Posted December 24, 2018 1 hour ago, maddmaxx said: That's a healthy idea. Get your cookies from BJ's ...or your BJ's from Cookie. Works either way. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shootingstar Posted December 25, 2018 Share #19 Posted December 25, 2018 I used to bake a chocolate chip-banana cookie. It used at least 1 c. of mashed ripe banana. So you figure out how much sugar to cut back.. Yes, the cookie kept medium soft for a wk. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrAzY Posted December 25, 2018 Share #20 Posted December 25, 2018 I made two types of fudge and pralines today.. I don't know how many I ate, but they are good 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Road Runner Posted December 25, 2018 Author Share #21 Posted December 25, 2018 3 hours ago, Road Runner said: My favorite cookie is a big ol' oatmeal and raisin like they sell at BJ's. Those things will kill you, but they taste wonderful! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tizeye Posted December 25, 2018 Share #22 Posted December 25, 2018 All cookies are healthy! to suggest otherwise is blasphemy. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Further Posted December 25, 2018 Share #23 Posted December 25, 2018 Oatmeal Raisin has to be healthy 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airehead Posted December 25, 2018 Share #24 Posted December 25, 2018 My mom made those sink cookies. She was a hippie. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razors Edge ★ Posted August 13, 2019 Share #25 Posted August 13, 2019 On 12/24/2018 at 6:00 PM, MickinMD said: I don't have a healthy cookie, but I do have a "healthy-for-me" candy bar, the excellent-tasting Kirkland Nut Bar, even though 2/3 of its 210 Calories are fat (13g good unsat, 3g bad sat, 0g trans fats). It is the only full-sized bar I know of, including stuff labeled "healthy," that satisfies my chocolate cravings and doesn't make my type-II diabetic blood sugar spike - probably because of all the nuts and 6 g of protein and 7 g of fiber in the 40 g (1.4 oz.) bar. Note that fat takes longer to process and diabetics who go a while without eating or overnight and find their sugar still high often have a lot of fat traveling through their intestines. I haven't had that problem with this bar, but I rarely eat more than one in a day. My U. of Maryland hospital system diabetic nutritionist said it's ok and the fact it doesn't spike my sugar or cause higher AM numbers outweighs the minor fat downside as long as I'm averaging one per day or less. I have one about every 2-3 days. Costco sells boxes of 30 "Kirkland Nut Bars" for $16.99. It is loaded with almonds, cashews, and walnuts. Hey @MickinMD! Is your Costco still carrying these? Mine hasn't had them in a month or so. How about in your neck of the woods? I've had to change over to a different breakfast bar ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
late Posted August 13, 2019 Share #26 Posted August 13, 2019 On 12/24/2018 at 2:21 PM, Longjohn said: I’ll bet it’s expensive. How many tigers does it take to get a pound of tiger nut flour? You should hear them complaining about it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsharr ★ Posted August 13, 2019 Share #27 Posted August 13, 2019 https://chocolatecoveredkatie.com/2019/06/03/chocolate-no-bake-cookies/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petitepedal ★ Posted August 13, 2019 Share #28 Posted August 13, 2019 I saw a cookie in a cast iron skillet in the latest issue of Eating Well..I just glanced at the recipe, but will check the details and maybe make it... Now I want a cookie! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indy Posted August 13, 2019 Share #29 Posted August 13, 2019 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
12string Posted August 13, 2019 Share #30 Posted August 13, 2019 On 12/24/2018 at 2:21 PM, Longjohn said: I’ll bet it’s expensive. How many tigers does it take to get a pound of tiger nut flour? It would be cheaper if they didn't use so many of them for Savanna Oysters 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralphie ★ Posted August 13, 2019 Share #31 Posted August 13, 2019 Yay! A RR post! Even though it was an 8-month old rerun! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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