Healthier Alternatives Instead of Cookie(s)?

Why not bake your own?

There are plenty of healthy cookie recipes out there that use healthier flours and alternative sweeteners like agave or maple syrup.

when i really desperately need something sugary i eat cereal with skim milk. like, kid cereals. golden grahams and cocoa puffs it's not exactly a healthy meal but you get more for your calories, and a lot of kids' cereals now are made with whole grain and vitamin-enriched, so it's not a complete and total waste.

i also like to mix a big spoonful of dry oats with a TBSP peanut butter, a tsp or two of honey and just a few dark chocolate chips. it's kind of a sticky mess but tastes like a cookie and at least you know what's in it.

if you like brownies, i tried this microwave single-serving brownie that another user had posted the recipe for, and it was really good:
1 TBSP whole wheat flour
1 TBSP sugar (no substitutes--must be real sugar)
1 TBSP unsweetened cocoa powder
1 pinch salt
1 pinch baking soda
2 TBSP fat-free vanilla yogurt

mix everything up in a microwave-safe bowl or coffee mug and microwave it for 45-60 seconds. instant brownie for about 120 calories and it's actually pretty sizeable.

Check out the site Chocolate Covered Katie. I love her stuff. I made her healthy blondies and they were so so so good.

http://chocolatecoveredkatie.com/2011/05/18/chocolate-chip-blondies-and-theyre-good-for-you/

If I'm really craving cookies I grab 2-3 of my daughter's chocolatey chip Teddy Grahams. It seems to fix the craving

hehe heres my paleo friendly cookie recipe

Chocolate Cookies

Ingredients
• ¼ cup sifted coconut flour
• ¼ cup butter or virgin coconut oil
• 1/3 cup cocoa powder
• 3 eggs
• 1/3 cup sugar----i dont use sugar i use xylitol
• ¼ teaspoon salt
• ¼ teaspoon vanilla
***1½ cups grated or flaked coconut optional


In a saucepan at low heat, melt butter and stir in cocoa powder. Remove from heat and let cool. In a bowl, combine eggs, sugar, salt and vanilla; stir in cocoa mixture. Whisk coconut flour into batter until there are no lumps. Let batter rest for 4 to 5 minutes to allow it to thicken slightly. Drop batter by the spoonful on greased cookie sheet. Bake at 175 Degree C (350F) for 14 minutes. Makes about 16 cookies. ( it makes less if you want alot make a few batches.)

there like a macaroon

Why not bake your own?

There are plenty of healthy cookie recipes out there that use healthier flours and alternative sweeteners like agave or maple syrup.

^^^ This

Freshly baked is the best anyway, and "diet cookies" taste like *kitten*.

graham crackers

Me too!!

Power Crunch bars.

Love Power Crunch bars, but that's a candy substitute, imo, not a cookie substitute. Sometimes, you just want a cookie.

i am so saving this thread, just love the idea of a one cookie, or a one brownie recipe.

i have a cookie recipe, which i invented myself,
very healthy, full of oats, raisins, some brown sugar,
but, i have no idea how many calories in each cookie, but wow, they are so great,
but,
I DO end up with an entire batch of cookies..........sitting there.........calling to me.......for days.......

*sigh*


i like this "one cookie" recipe idea so so much!!



ALSO

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TO THE OP,
one can budget in a cookie here or there, too. Those are YOUR daily calories, to spend as you see fit,
and sometimes,
a treat now or then, can be budgetted in.......so long as the one or two cookies does not send you reeling into a sugar-crave frenzy, or set up a habit or something like that,
you CAN budget in treats now and then...............

I know this is an old post but I suggest date rolls (they are high in calories but healthy) http://www.shutterbean.com/2010/coconut-date-rolls/