Chocolate Banana Granola

Chocolate Banana Granola

Ingredients:

3 cups oats, soaked
2 ounces nuts (soaking optional), chopped
3 bananas
3 tablespoons ground cocoa
1/2 teaspoon oil
sweetener, optional & to taste

Directions:

In a blender, (or food processor) blend the bananas together with the ground cocoa, oil, and if needed the sweetener of your choice. When mixture is smooth, dump into a bowl with your oats, and nuts. Mix thoroughly. Place in your dehydrator at 110 degree for 12-20 hours.About 6-8 hours in, go ahead and break up the granola, this not only helps in drying but helps in the final product. The time depends on your environment, so after 12 hours, start checking, if you think it needs more time then give it more time.

I personally prefer almonds, cashews, and pecans in this recipe, but the nuts are your choice. Optionally you could use seeds instead of nuts, sunflower or pumpkin are my personal favorites. Enjoy!

Makes: 3 cups granola, Preparation time: 2mins, Cooking time: 12 – 20 hours

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Nutritional Breakdown.
Serving size 1/2 cup

(click photo for full size, rather big, but detailed as usual!)

Weird things afoot?

I tried posting in-between the last post and now but they disappeared, I’m not sure why. I checked my drafts, they’re not there. Instead of trying to retype all of it, which would be hard for me considering I write on a whim, I decided to cut my losses. Sorry if you haven’t heard from me in a bit.

Its not official yet… right?!

Okay so my in-laws took us out to eat tonight, wonderful right? WRONG! They took us to a meat eaters haven. I however, was the odd one out. I ended up breaking down and eating cheese so I’d have something decent to eat. I feel like a failure already. Then I think to myself since I can’t go shopping until tomorrow my diet doesn’t “officially” switch back yet so no harm done, I’m just lying to myself.

So I decided to stop making excuses and see how much I weigh…. too much! While I was eating raw I got down to 250, now I’m back up to 262. Granted its the end of the day, and I’ve eaten way too much, drank a lot of water, and really haven’t gone to the bathroom much, so maybe its closer to 260, but still sad. I know no one is to blame but myself, its just so hard having to fight with my husband when his mother wants to feed us dead animals, I know that sounds horrible! Before Since xmas and now I’ve gained 10lbs, thats terrible!

I feel FAT

On a side note; I finally decided on my “menu” for the 6th-13th. I will be buying the following things;

4 bags of organic romaine heads (3 per bag)
10 apples (whatever brand is on sale)
30-40 bananas
10 good sized tomatoes
3-4 cucumbers
1pkg organic celery
1/6-1/4lb fresh ginger

Yes you can live off that much food for one week and be healthy, I’ll post my info each day to prove it! =) I’ll also be making some almond milk and such but I already have the nuts so I don’t need to purchase them. I’ll post my “official” grocery haul, but it’ll be mixed with Daniel’s food too. Oh I’ll also get some sort of salad dressing, like a fat free kind, its the one thing I don’t like raw. I’m not big into the oil and lemon juice thing, bleh!

Really not much else to talk about today, I’m worn out, and tomorrow (technically later today) will be a long one with hubby’s family so I should be going to bed. Maybe If I fall asleep while I’m there they’ll leave me alone… yeah right!

November 21st and 22nd, 2009

So I was a little lazy and Didn’t eat super healthy on the 21st. I had premade sushi, and I ate too much of it. I think sushi would be my number one weakness. I probably ate like 2000 calories in sushi then we saw a movie and of course you get thirsty. And the theatre I went to doesn’t have bottle water anymore apperently. So my husband got the ginormo soda that I was drinking off and on, I don’t even wanna think about how much I might have drank of it. I didn’t weigh myself on the 21st.

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Today (technically yesterday but whatever) I didn’t eat really balanced either. I had 2 medium sized bowls of homemade chili. It was good, vegan of course, lots of beans. I even put some tvp in here (thats textured veggie protein) so it had the taste/texture of a meat filled chili. I’m also happy that It didn’t upset my stomach like chili used to. I think it was the meat all the time. I weighed myself on a different scale and it said I gained 4lbs. Which honestly after how much I ate yesterday and the fact I was wearing sweatpants, and had JUST eaten. Yeah sounds about right to me. I’ll go weigh myself on my wiifit board and see if its different later (that what I usually use to weigh myself with). Tomorrow I’ll go back to eating balanced. Everyone is entitled to a few “off” days here and there I think! No cron images for either of the two days. I didn’t save the packages for the sushi, nor do I really feel like calculating my random chili I made.

Remember, lazy isn’t always bad. Except I should do dishes and I don’t want to! =p

Every Tale has a Beginning

I am gonna try using this blog to keep myself accountable for what I stick in my mouth. I’ll post my calories for the day. Daily weigh ins. A menu type thing of what I eat.  Maybe I should start with a little background of myself incase someone other then myself decides to read this? lol!

I am currently 22 years young, I live a pretty normal, quiet life. I live in rural Iowa, aka.. the middle of nowhere ! I am happily married, 5 years now, to a man named Daniel. I have a 10 yr old step son, and two fluffy cats, who are my life.  I recently transitioned from the typical american diet, to a vegan diet. I try to eat organic if at all possible, and I’m trying really hard not to eat a lot of soy. My end goal would be a mostly raw food diet, but for now I will be content on vegan. Most people go veg first, I went veg for about a week til I got rid of everything not meat.

Why am I doing this?

If I help one person by making this blog, then I will be happy. I don’t expect anyone to follow me anytime soon, but maybe in the future. I will also try to do weekly postings on youtube, but I’m somewhat shy so I won’t make promises.