Mojito Fruit Salad at Simply Whisked Healthier Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Lactation Cookies at Culinary Couture Panini Bites at Heavenly Home Cooking Mini Lemon Blueberry Bundt Cakes at Bakerita Mini Cookies & Cream Pumpkin Cheesecakes at Flavor the Moments Baby Carrot and Apple Soup at Thistle Key Lane Gluten Free Pumpkin Pancakes at Jessica in the Kitchen Blueberry Lemon-Thyme Cornmeal Crisp at Vanilla and Bean Caramelized Fig Upside Down Cake at Broma Bakery
Speaking of pregnancy–because when am I ever not?–I dreamed up these granola bars when I was trying to come up with some preggo-friendly snacks when I went to the beach with my family and knew I’d otherwise rely on Cheez-its to see me through.. which.. I mean.. No! No, no. Must. Eat. Healthy. Ish. Anyway, I knew I needed something easy to grab that was full of protein and bonus! Full of dates. If you’re not preggers, then you can just.. skip right over the explanation that’s about to slap you right in the face. But if you are preggers, then listen up, sister! There’s a pretty infamous study (among the bump groups and all, of course) out there that shows that women who ate several dates late in pregnancy had easier, quicker births, and I’m all about those. Besides, even if the dates do nothing, they’re still damn delicious and an excellent natural sweetener, so you’ve got nada to lose.
My hefty date consumption aside, these are so simple to make and were a huge hit with the family, too. They’re naturally sweetened, which says, “hey, man, I care”, but that addition of chocolate chips is all like, “but I still like to live a little, brah”. You know what I mean?
I don’t. I have no idea what I mean. It’s late and I’m a million weeks pregnant and O is mad at me for telling him my water broke when he was at his draft night. But it was so impossible to resist, I mean amiright? Make these. They’re delicious and easy and healthy and versatile and make your labor like super short and easy and please do not hold me to that, like at all, like one iota.
