Peanut Butter Banana Chocolate Chip Oatmeal

Oatmeal's a breakfast time staple in our house, with back-to-school quickly approaching I wanted to share my recipe for Peanut Butter Banana Chocolate Chip Oatmeal. It's a fun way to keep breakfast simple and nutritious for the whole family! It also makes it a little bit easier to climb out of bed during those chilly fall mornings that will soon arrive.

The peanut butter and chocolate chips gives this oatmeal a flavor reminiscent of a beloved peanut butter cup while the banana acts as a natural sweetener. If you aren't fond of banana, maple syrup or brown sugar makes a great substitute, and equally delicious.

Either way it's a favorite way to start the day! 

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Blondies With Peanut Butter Swirl

Brown Butter Blondies with Peanut Butter Swirl are one of my favorite Blondies Brownies recipe. The flavors absolutely delicious. These are great for parties like Super Bowl and 4th of July.

I couldn't decide last week chocolate chip or peanut butter, cookies or bars. So I went with Brown Butter Blondies With Peanut Butter Swirl because anything with peanut butter swirl is eternally life changing in my book.

These bars have everything I love in a dessert.

A thick chewy chocolate chip bar with swirls of peanut butter deliciousness that make for a gorgeous presentation without much effort.

We couldn't keep our hands out of the pan. We may or may not have eaten over half the pan before Colt could take a few finished photos but just for the record part of that was due to running out of parchment paper.

Sometimes things happen and my kids usually aren't super excited to wait an extra day to enjoy dessert just for a picture so sometimes I compromise. Sometimes I'm on top of my game and I hide dessert until I have finished photos but that didn't happen on this occasion because the kids could smell these Brown Butter Blondies With Peanut Butter Swirl before they even entered the house.

Be warned these don't last long!

Here's how to make these delicious Blondies with Peanut Butter Swirl:

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Peanut Butter Blondies

         We made these delicious Peanut Butter Blondies for Mother's Day because we had already devoured the Frozen Strawberry Cheesecake I shared with you that day.

Matter of fact these didn't last long either and may or may not have resulted in a melt down from one of the kids.

 Someone ate more then their share resulting in some serious interrogation in our house.

You would think we never have dessert the way it all went down but to be honest if it was my slice of Peanut Butter Blondies I might have resulted to interrogating people too.

We might take dessert a little too seriously sometimes.

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Chocolate Peanut Butter Oatmeal Protein Cookies

This is a sponsored recipe for Visalus Body By Vi. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

I received Vi Shape shake mix from Visalus to sample and knew it would be perfect to make some Chocolate Peanut Butter Oatmeal Protein Cookies for a treat for the kids..

I love that these are packed with protein, what a perfect afternoon snack after school to tide everyone over until dinner.

Who doesn't like peanut butter and chocolate with oatmeal and protein mix add for nutrition.

The kids had no clue of the added health benefits in their cookies.

These are simple and easy to make and hit the spot for a perfect afternoon or evening snack.

Truth be told I even had 2 for breakfast.

Deliciousness.

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Gluten Free Egg Free Double Chocolate Peanut Butter Bite Cookies

I've been keeping these my little chocolaty secret for sometime now.. 

Since I came out last week and shared Gluten Free Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Bites and it was a hit, I decided it was time to share another quick snack time cookie I make for the kids when I'm looking to make something a little bit healthier....

These cookies are super healthy, grain and gluten free, egg-less, easy to make and could be vegan if using Agave.

But most importantly these babies are double chocolate peanut butter deliciousness and I haven't shared these with the world yet only because I hated the pictures! Yep I said it!

 My food photo skills are improving but no matter what I did to these little bites the pictures just weren't as appetizing as I would have liked...

I actually feel rather proud of these photos only because the previous set really did not look appetizing at all! 

My kids had even joked around about the looks of the bites! But it sure didn't deter them from eating every last cookie! 

Now go get to baking! 

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Whole Wheat Peanut Butter Oatmeal With Agave and Flax Cookies

It's a New Year and I have been trying to get back on track to be in shape. You see I have this lack of motivation to exercise. 3 kids, 2 dog, a husband and 1 part time job seems to fulfill my time and leave me rather tired. Well folks I am proud to say for the last few weeks I have been back on track. This last week I ran/ fast walked 3 miles a day. Who new I still could sweat so much? Hopefully this next week I will continue and be able to shave a little of my time.  The great thing about exercising I have found is the more I do it the more energy I have, it really has been rather amazing! It's better then 2 cups of coffee! I suggest if you haven't been doing it stop making excuses and go for it! You'll feel amazing if you exercise and cut out process foods from your diet!

On another note I thought I would share these delicious cookies! These are great for a healthier dessert or sweet tooth craving. No you can't eat all of these cookies and expect to be healthy, but 2 cookies to calm a sweet tooth are better then most things you could reach for other then fruit and they are  high in fiber from the whole wheat, oatmeal and flax. I subbed agave nectar for regular sugar and I still used brown sugar for a bit of caramel undertone. Agave is a lower glycemic sweetener and doesn't spike your blood sugar like traditional sweeteners and isn't artificial so it will leave your sweet tooth satisfied! The dough is a bit soft and I was worried as I was concocting these they where going to spread too much, I almost added more flour but the oats and flax helped these cookies hold there shape nicely. These where moist and delicious, the kids and husband over indulged, my cookies where all gone by this morning, I was rather sad no cookies for me tonight. Enjoy!

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