Summers tend to be busy for all of us. We eat out more often, we splurge on ice cream, we go on vacation. So because of this I try and eat a fairly clean breakfast and lunch. Then if we end up eating out for dinner or getting ice cream later that night I really don't beat myself up about it. Plus I'm pregnant so whatever.... with that being said I am always trying to come up with new breakfast ideas. After too many weeks or protein shakes or avocado toast with a fried egg I decided it was time to work on some new protein breakfast bars. I came up with these little guys and they are probably my best ones yet. A little side note you can make your own chai spice, but I didn't feel like spending $20 on all the spices to make that so I got a canister of chai latte mix. It does have sugar in it but I only used 3 tsp so it wasn't enough to bother me.
INGREDIENTS
INSTRUCTIONS
- 1½ cups quick cooking oats
- 1½ cups cooked quinoa
- 3 scoops vanilla protein powder
- 2 tsp chia seeds
- 2 - 3 tsp chai spice, I used store bought. chai latte powder* it has sugar but whatever!
- a pinch of salt
- 1 tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp baking soda
- 3 egg whites
- 2 tbs coconut oil
- ¼ cup maple syrup
- ½ cup apple sauce
- ⅓ cup almond milk
- 1/4 cup almonds
- 1/4 cup raisins
- 1/3 cup unsweetened coconut flakes
INSTRUCTIONS
- Preheat oven to 350F, line an 8x8 cake tin with parchment paper and set aside
- In a large bowl, whisk together the dry ingredients
- Add the egg whites, coconut oil, maple syrup and applesauce and mix until well combined
- Pour in the almond milk and continue to mix
- Fold in your mix ins
- Pour the batter into prepared baking dish and top with extra mix ins, if desired
- Bake for 25 - 30 minutes or until the edges are beginning to brown and a toothpick inserted into the centre comes out clean
- Allow to cool 5 minutes in the baking dish, then remove and transfer to a wire rack and cool completely before slicing
- Store in an airtight container in the fridge for up to a week
This is the chai latte mix I used.....
I will probably be doing my last fashion post this week. As I get into the 30+ weeks no one wants my fashion advice ha ha! There just isn't a lot of cute things to wear in 100 degrees in the last 2 months of pregnancy. I will share our maternity photos when we take them in a few weeks. I ordered 7 dresses for that so hopefully one of them will work out.
I hope you all had a great weekend, we didn't do much at our house which was nice. We head out on vacation in a week so this was our last weekend home before vacation. I did a lot of laundry, organizing, and playing with Leo. I should be doing more things in the babies room but we are waiting for the wallpaper to be installed so we are kind of at a standstill. You can barely open her closet it is so full of all the stuff. Hopefully the wallpaper will get installed beginning of August so I will have a good month to get the room put together... if not.... we will figure it out!
Cheers,
Jess
I hope you all had a great weekend, we didn't do much at our house which was nice. We head out on vacation in a week so this was our last weekend home before vacation. I did a lot of laundry, organizing, and playing with Leo. I should be doing more things in the babies room but we are waiting for the wallpaper to be installed so we are kind of at a standstill. You can barely open her closet it is so full of all the stuff. Hopefully the wallpaper will get installed beginning of August so I will have a good month to get the room put together... if not.... we will figure it out!
Cheers,
Jess
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