FAMILY COOKIES

Treats for my family, not made of my family. Just to be clear.

Treats each individual from my family can eat, and Mama won't get frantic. Indeed, even the puppies!

For this post, I collaborated with my most loved month to month membership administration, MightyFix, to get you a markdown code to appreciate all the cool things I adore! Just to be clear, I pay for this administration all alone every month, and I absolutely cherish it. I truly think you'd like it, so that is the reason I collaborated with them.

A while ago when I was nursing Camille (hold me, the recollections are still so distinctive), I made many batches of oats treats by Mel. She doesn't call them lactation treats, but since they contain oats, coconut oil, flax, chia and almonds, I utilized them all things considered. They were a simple treat to blend together on the grounds that the coconut oil was liquefied. I every now and again substituted crude grass-bolstered spread, and some of the time, mixing the brilliant yellow margarine was the best some portion of my day. Breastfeeding was so difficult and enthusiastic for me; I know we've discussed this some time recently.

While I am so blissful to be passed that stage (yet genuine props to Mamas who medical attendant in toddlerhood!), I never fully overlooked those treats. They had something so right about them—salty, sweet (yet just normally sweetened—yippee!), thus much surface. Chocolate chips at 2am are a gift from heaven, also.

Nowadays, Camille is excessively youthful, making it impossible to take off to class, yet she is making a beeline for childcare soon. I couldn't be more energized! This late spring, I had a babysitter go to my home a couple days a week in the mornings so I could complete some work. I'm taking a shot at cookbook #3 at this moment, and I required help. LOTSA HALP.

A portion of me cherished the individual consideration Camille got from her babysitter, yet my Mama intuition knew she missed her companions at childcare.

Along these lines, back to pressing snacks and snacks, I am! What's more, you know I'm that irritating flower child Mama that won't give her child a chance to eat the garbage nourishment they offer at school. I'm 100% against sustenance advertised to children, and I don't mind how disputable that announcement is. Come at me, I challenge you.

On the off chance that alternate children will be offered sweet snacks, I need Camille's nibble to have the same request. She cherishes my formula for natively constructed graham saltines, however she additionally truly adores these treats. They're pressed with quinoa, oats, and flax seed, and they're just sweetened with nectar. What more could a Mama need in a treat for child?

I pack them in these reusable nibble sacks, which conveys me to the giveaway of today's post! I'm collaborating with MightyFix again to present to you another practical kitchen item. I'm a supporter of MightyFix (and have been for a long time!), and I generally adore getting my eco-accommodating thing via the post office every month. It's actually the main organization that routinely removes cash from my financial balance and I don't worry about one piece.

I pay $10/month to be amazed with another green contraption or thing that makes my life more maintainable/greener/more clean. As such, I've been wired to get my honey bee's wax wraps (an other option to plastic wrap), fleece dryer balls, reusable kitchen towels that really scour, silicone stockpiling holders, and now these reusable nibble packs. I've possessed reusable sacks for quite a long time, however they weren't my most loved on the grounds that after a couple trips in the clothes washer, they destroyed. I used to have a decent association with an outsider on Etsy who might make me new sacks with velcro at regular intervals. (That is that I am so dedicated to dispensing with plastic from my kitchen!) However, she in the long run had an infant (twins, I think), and shut her Etsy shop. I've been living without from that point onward.

At the point when MightyFix sent me a 3-pack of these reusable pockets, I was happy. These packs are an abundantly enhanced form since you can wash them in the top rack of the dish washer! The sacks you find in the photographs have been through the most sultry, heaviest cycle in my dishwasher commonly, despite everything they look fresh out of the box new.

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I utilize my nibble sacks to pack up these actually sweetened cereal treats, yet I've likewise been heating up loads of treats from my great companion Michele's new cookbook, Little Bento. I've discussed Michele some time recently, and I simply need to repeat that it is so awesome to discover another Mama who is as enthusiastic about the sustenance that goes into her children's mouths as I am. Michele gets it. She designed infant sustenance with style (she gave her children curry!), and I'm so appreciative I unearthed her site before Camille began solids. Camille was raised on her innovative child purees, and I swear that is the reason she has such great taste now.

She has two cookbooks (Little Foodie) and now Little Bento, since her children are grown up now. I make these spinach biscuits from Little Bento a great deal, and Michele is the sweetest in light of the fact that she's giving me a chance to share her formula here. Look at her cookbooks and her site (BabyFoodE.com) and please go advise her how astonishing she is for driving the development of giving children genuine sustenance to eat with genuine flavors.

Whew, that was a long one, would it say it wasn't? We should recap:

Sound treats for children made with nectar, flax, oats, and quinoa.

Giveaway for MightyFix containing reusable nibble packs for children and grown-ups.

Did you get that declaration for my forthcoming third cookbook? It's expected out next Valentine's Day. More information soon. Pre-arrange now. I adore you.

Splendid green biscuits made by Michele for packing spinach into your children.

YIELDS 2 DOZEN SMALL COOKIES

A healthy cookie recipe for kids made without refined sugars. Cookies sweetened with honey, and stuffed with oats, flax seed, and quinoa.

20 minPrep Time

20 minTotal Time

Ingredients

4 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
4 tablespoons melted coconut oil
6 tablespoons honey
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 large egg
1 cup white whole wheat flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 1/4 cup quick oats*
3/4 cup cooked quinoa**
1/4 cup ground flax seed
1/4 cup chopped dried cranberries

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 375.
In a large bowl, whisk together the melted butter, coconut oil, honey and vanilla.
Beat in the egg, and whisk until homogenous.
In a separate medium bowl, stir together the flour, salt, baking soda, oats, cooked quinoa, flax seed and cranberries.
Add the dry ingredients to the wet, and stir until combined.
Scoop rounded tablespoons onto a cookie sheet, and press flat with your hands.
Bake for 10 minutes, until the edges start to turn golden brown and the bottoms are golden brown.

Notes

*I use rolled oats that I processed in a blender for about 10 seconds to make quick oats. **Leftover quinoa is fine, but it must have been cooked in water, not chicken broth.