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When it comes to home made treats...

alexbusnello
alexbusnello Posts: 1,010 Member
edited December 2024 in Food and Nutrition
I made oatmeal, dark chocolate, peanut butter, cinnamon, vanilla coconut balls.

I used:
- 1/2 one minute Quaker oats
- About 3 squares of organic Green And Black's 85% dark chocolate
- Two Tblsp of organic peanut butter
- A tsp of ground cinnamon
- A tsp of artificial vanilla extract
- A tblsp of unsweetened coconut flakes
- Four Tblsp of 1% white milk
- A whole small packet of Sweet Leaf Stevia sweetener

I'm not sure how to count these. This makes 5 balls, but how much is one serving for these di you think? One single ball or two? I'm asking because I'd like to know how much I eat when I eat them. I'm trying to log in the recipe but if one serving is two balls, that means one would be left over. I said it feeds 5 people so that would mean a serving is one ball but the calorie count was high for one single ball.... I think it said 100 exactly? Or a bit higher, I'm not sure.

Or should unjust not worry about it and just eat one or two when I feel like it with no guilt or worry? I don't want to stop making them since I'm proud of them and they are so yummy.

Edit: I rolled the balls in the coconut shavings so I guessed I used up about a tblsp for all of them. I spread two Tblsp of it but didn't use all of it.

Replies

  • airangel59
    airangel59 Posts: 1,887 Member
    Put the ingredients into the Recipe gizmo (under Food) to find out what a piece will come to
  • Emily_Katherine
    Emily_Katherine Posts: 150
    Sounds tasty! Here is what I would do: When you enter the recipe, enter the number of balls you make from the ingredients in the number of servings box. Then when you log it, log the number you ate. Easy as oatmeal dark chocolate peanut butter cinnamon vanilla coconut balls.
  • alexbusnello
    alexbusnello Posts: 1,010 Member
    Sounds tasty! Here is what I would do: When you enter the recipe, enter the number of balls you make from the ingredients in the number of servings box. Then when you log it, log the number you ate. Easy as oatmeal dark chocolate peanut butter cinnamon vanilla coconut balls.

    Wow, so one ball is 100 calories. I ate two... Lol

    Thank you : )
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