As a mom, it’s accustomed to feel like you are consistently accepting aliment accessible for your kids . . . breakfast, lunch, snacks, snacks, snacks, dinner, and added snacks. I feel the aforementioned way. And with all of that aliment preparation, I begin it difficult for me to accomplish my own commons and candy throughout the day back my little aliment monster demands so much. This is why I accept to plan my “mom snacks” in beforehand that are quick and accessible to accomplish that additionally amuse my cravings.
Lately I’ve been accumulation added Greek yogurt into my commons and candy back Greek yogurt is affluent in protein (building muscle, abbreviation ache & advocacy metabolism), calcium (improving cartilage health), and contains live and alive cultures (good for the tummy). My go-to yogurt for my ancestors and myself is Stonyfield Organic. They accomplish their yogurts after the use of baneful assiduous pesticides, bogus hormones, antibiotics or GMOs. And–to put it simply–their yogurts are buttery and delicious! You’ll consistently acquisition some of their articles in our fridge.
So with little time and astronomic defective some added yummy, ready-to-go snacks, I’m administration some accessible candy for moms that are abiding to ample you up best and amuse that candied tooth. 😉
Peanut adulate swirled yogurt
I am in adulation with peanut butter! This bite is crazy acceptable abnormally if you are appetite article that’s filling, creamy, and that has a acceptable crunch.
What to Do:
- Scoop some aperitive Stonyfield Greek yogurt into a bowl.
- Warm up three spoonfuls of peanut adulate in the bake in a abstracted bowl. This will accomplish it bendable and pourable.
- Stir in the peanut adulate in the Greek yogurt.
- Top it off with article brittle and sweet! I added a little dribble of honey and burst up some amoebic graham crackers.
- Enjoy!
Yogurt-covered cranberries
It’s nice to be able to adapt some candy afterwards my son has been put to bed so that I accept ready-to-go bites with me for the abutting day that I can calmly bandy in my bag. This is one of those recipes. 🙂 These yogurt-covered cranberries consistently accord me that bang of activity that I need!
*Warning: this yogurt-coating has a lot of sugar. But so do a lot of commercially-made yogurt-covered snacks. At atomic this bootleg amusement is fabricated after oils, emulsifiers, and stabilizers, so that makes me feel better.
Ingredients:
- 1 tablespoon water
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 teaspoon gelatin
- 1/4 cup Stonyfield Greek yogurt
- 1 tablespoon honey
- Pinch salt
- 2 cups delicate sugar, additional added for blanket cranberries
- 8 ounces (about 3 cups) broiled cranberries
What to Do:
- Mix calm the baptize and the boilerplate in a baby dish. Add the gelatin and barrel with a angle until aggregate is analogously distributed. Let blow for about 5 minutes. (It will set into a blubbery paste.)
- In addition baby dish, barrel calm the Stonyfield Greek yogurt, honey, and salt. Bake in 8-second bursts, active in amid anniversary burst, until the yogurt is aqueous and actual balmy to the touch. (Don’t let it alpha to abscess or the yogurt will curdle.)
- Add the gelatin into the yogurt admixture and barrel calm until the gelatin is absolutely dissolved.
- Scrape the yogurt admixture into a baby bond basin and again cascade the delicate amoroso on top. Activate bond acclaim until they amalgamate into a thick, but pourable, frosting.
- In addition bond bowl, add the cranberries with a tablespoon of powered amoroso until they are coated.
- Pour half of the yogurt blanket over the cranberries, and activity until they are absolutely covered and there is no added dry powered sugar.
- Line a baking area with block cardboard or wax paper, and cascade the coated cranberries analogously beyond the baking area amid them as abundant as you can. They are vey sticky. Let the cranberries sit, uncovered, until they are dry to the touch. (About 30-45 minutes)
- Transfer the cranberries aback into the bond basin and cascade the actual yogurt blanket to accustomed them a additional coat. Afterwards mixing, put them aback assimilate the lined baking sheet. (Be abiding to move the cranberries about to ensure the undersides additionally accept a adventitious to dry. It will booty at atomic 6 hours or brief to dry.)
- Store yogurt-covered cranberries in an closed alembic at allowance temperature. They will accumulate for several weeks. 🙂
Chocolate covered raspberry yogurt
The antecedent compound took a little time, but this bite compound is done in minutes! It additionally includes cocoa, and that chocolate-y acidity consistently hits the atom for my caliginosity snack.
What to Do:
- Grab a ramekin or baby basin and bead in a few arctic raspberries.
- Scoop in one confined or a brace of scoops of Stonyfield Greek yogurt from your quartz alembic into your bowl.
- Add one teaspoon of amber crumb on top and boring mix together.
- Drizzle some honey on top and enjoy!
Homemade hummus
If you appetite a bite that is added agreeable than sweet, this bootleg hummus will do the trick.
Ingredients:
- 1 can of garbanzo beans
- 6 oz of Stonyfield Greek yogurt
- 1 teaspoon added abstinent olive oil
- 1 lemon
- 1 abysm of garlic
- salt and pepper (to taste)
What to Do:
- Pour the garbanzo beans into your blender or aliment processor. Again add the Stonyfield Greek yogurt, the auto abstract from your 1 lemon, the olive oil, garlic, alkali and pepper. Alloy until smooth!
Strawberry yogurt bark
Now this is the accessible compound of them all! It’s so accessible that your kids can alike advice accomplish it with you. And I’m not gonna lie, this is a abundant bite for them as well. They will anticipate that they are accepting ambrosia back absolutely this is a actual advantageous snack! Here’s what you charge and how you accomplish it.
Ingredients:
- Stonyfield Greek yogurt
- Dried strawberries
What to Do:
- Line a pan with block cardboard and advance with yogurt evenly. Accomplish abiding that the yogurt is not too attenuate so that it break afar easily. (I would say about 3/8 of an inch blubbery is good.)
- Sprinkle with your broiled strawberries. (You can alike add in added fruits or basics to mix it up!)
- Put the pan in your freezer for a few hours until the yogurt is absolutely frozen. (Mine took about 6 hours.) Already frozen, abolish arctic yogurt from the pan and bark off the block paper.
- Break your birthmark yogurt case into pieces and enjoy!
I achievement these mom candy accept sparked some ideas! And I achievement you don’t accept to share. 😉
