Clean Eating Blueberry Pancakes!

I had pictures of these but can not find on my phone.  I will add pictures next time I cook them but they are delicious!!!!

Clean Eating Blueberry Pancakes

1/2 cup old fashioned rolled oats
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 plain greek yogurt
1/2 medium ripe banana
1 egg
1/2 teaspoon vanilla (I use Mexican Vanilla)
1/2 cup frozen blueberries (you can use fresh if you have)
1 tablespoon Almond Meal
1 tablespoon Flax Seed
Coconut Oil
Pure Maple Syrup or Raw Honey for serving

Pour everything into a blender and blend up.  While blending, heat enough coconut oil in a pan to cook the pancakes in.  If it won't blend in your blender, add a little bit of milk (I use almond).  One thing I found is if I add yogurt, egg, vanilla first and let it start blending then add in other ingredients. 

Cook in pan like regular pancakes and serve! 

Tropical Chia Chai Smoothie

I have been experimenting with smoothies since doing a Clean 15 Diet that my gym put together.   One smoothie I became addicted too after Clean 15 was this Chai Almond smoothie.  I wanted to mix it up a bit so I put this together today.  I wasn't sure how I would like the Chai flavor combined with pineapple but it is surprisingly good!

Make this Chai Spice First and store in a airtight container.

• 1 tbsp ground cinnamon
• 1 tsp ground cloves
• 2 tsp ground nutmeg
• 1 tsp ground ginger
• 3/4 tsp ground black pepper
• 1 tsp ground allspice

Ingredients:
1/2 cup unsweetened vanilla coconut milk
1/2 frozen banana (if you don't have one frozen, just add a little ice)
1/2 cup pineapple
2 tsp Chai Spice
1/2 tsp ginger 
1 tbsp raw honey
1 large handful of greens (I use spinach/baby kale mix)
1 tbsp chia seeds

Combine all ingredients in blender, blend until smooth.  Enjoy!  And with all smoothies, you can make homemade popsicles with any extra. 

Krafts Whipped Strawberry Sensation

We have a New York relative coming to our crawfish boil today for Good Friday so I had to do a dessert using fresh Ponchatoula strawberries. I found this in Kraft Food magazine. My changes are in parentheses.

I haven't had any of the fully prepared dessert yet but I tasted it before freezing last night and it was VERY good. Super sweet so if you aren't big on really sweet desserts, you may want to cut the condensed milk in half. If it isn't strawberry season, you could probably use frozen or maybe even raspberries or some other type of fruit.

4 cups fresh strawberries, divided

1 can (14 oz.) sweetened condensed milk

1/4 cup lemon juice(I squeezed the juice from one large fresh lemon)

1 tub (8 oz.) COOL WHIP Whipped Topping, thawed, divided(I used low fat)

8 OREO Cookies, finely chopped (I used 12 and put in food processor on pulse for a few seconds)

1 Tbsp. butter, melted (I used about 1.5 tbsp)

LINE 9x5-inch loaf pan with foil, with ends extending over sides of pan. Mash 2 cups berries in large bowl (I pulsed in food processor). Add condensed milk, lemon juice juice and 2 cups COOL WHIP; mix well. Pour into prepared pan.

MIX chopped cookies and butter (I combined butter in food processor by pulsing a second with oreos); spoon over COOL WHIP mixture. Gently press cookie mixture into COOL WHIP mixture. Cover with ends of foil. Freeze overnight.

INVERT dessert onto plate when ready to serve; remove pan and peel off foil. Frost dessert with remaining COOL WHIP. Slice remaining berries; arrange over dessert. (I then flash freezed mine, took out after about 40 minutes then covered) then put back in freezer until ready to serve. I took out about 20 minutes before serving so the top berries weren't frozen solid.