You know you want one.
Or two.
Or four hundred and fifty four.
Maybe not four hundred and fifty four.
Then you’d get a stomachache, and that’s no fun. 😕
On the other hand, the stomachache might be worth it. For chocolate and peanut butter?
So worth it.
Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Balls
(can be gluten-free)
Category: Healthy “No-Bake” Recipes.
- 1/2 cup rolled oats (or oat bran or quick oats) (Maybe even flaxmeal or protein powder!) (40g)
- 1/2 cup peanut butter (or other nut butter, or Sunbutter to be allergy-friendly) (115g)
- stevia drops to taste, or 2 tbsp plus 2 tsp pure maple syrup, or another sweetener of choice (If using a dry sweetener, you might have to add a little water or oil to make a dough. If using a liquid sweetener—such as maple syrup or agave—don’t add any extra liquid.)
- scant 1/8 tsp salt
- 2 tbsp flour or oat bran, or perhaps protein powder (I used spelt flour, but many others—such as oat or almond or all-purpose flour—will be fine. Not sure about coconut flour.) (15g)
- chocolate chips!!
Combine all ingredients in a cereal bowl, and mix until well-incorporated. (If you store your nut butter in the fridge, you might want to melt it a little so it stirs more easily.) Roll into balls, and try not to eat them all at once. Luckily, this recipe doesn’t make four hundred and fifty four.
Question of the Day:
Do you ever continue to eat even after you’re full, knowing you’ll regret it later?
Right off the bat, Thanksgiving and Christmas (especially Christmas cookies!) come to mind. But foods like roast cauliflower and brussels sprouts are also pretty easy for me to overeat and get a stomachache. Or too many raw walnuts or too much coconut butter… and yes, in the case of eating too much coconut butter, I think the stomachache is always worth it!
Link of the Day:
Cutest pictures EVER!
Oh I think I could easily eat 454 of those. No problem. So maybe I’d better not start, because I don’t know if I can afford that much peanut butter! Good thing peanut butter is cheaper than coconut butter.
Translation? Making them today!
I’m with the other commenter above. These photos just make me smile. I can’t look at them and not smile. Maybe too cute to eat! But I’ll try my best, and maybe share with the kiddos too. We’ll probably add some coconut shreds and we’ll let you know how it goes!
In the summer I always eat too much watermelon! Usually before bed too, so I am up half the night peeing. Must be worth it though because it doesn’t stop me!
This is such a simple recipe–but looks so delicious!! I love raw and/or no-bake truffles, cookies, Larabars, etc…,especially when it is too hot outside to turn on the oven:) And I definitely eat past the point of fullness sometimes, especially with such amazing food as almond butter, hummus, chips, baked potato fries, and many, many others:) But I know I need plenty of food to help fuel my dancing, so I don’t stress about it!!
I can definitely see myself overeating on those (or really almost any other dessert). I also always have to be careful about eating too many dried mangos. They’re just so delicious, and it’s so much easier eating the dried kind than actually having to cut up a mango yourself.
Yum, I tried the peanut butter ones on here and enjoyed them, so I know I’ll love these too
These look great! Are they sticky? If so, could you roll them in cocoa powder or powdered sugar after so they are transportable? Or freeze them for a bit? Just thinking these would be good to bring to work…
I bet you could. I have some left, so I might have to try rolling them in something. They’re definitely transportable, and I think they would make a good lunchbox item as well. Good for back to school, which is soon yuck!
I totally have! Since I switched to a healthier diet that is also vegan (since some people definitely don’t go about it in a healthy way–eating all sugary processed snacks all the time for every meal! oy!), I have found it doesn’t happen to me half as much as it used to. I’ve always been on the thinner side but I used to be able to wipe out more than half a box of cookies in a day!! Of course that was before I developed colitis–now if I over eat, I definitely pay the price, so I try not to. I find I am so busy though that overeating in my scenario can be a good thing because half the time I’m not eating enough throughout the day–as long as I don’t overeat on anything too fibrous. I have to be careful with my stomach. So giant helpings of spaghetti? Yes please 🙂
I really want to try these with sunbutter (I have a peanut-intolerance! Nothing huge, I’ll still eat them every once in a while, but makes my cheeks look rather chipmunkish 😛 ). I’m sure it’d be delightful 🙂
Love me some no bake recipes with short ingredient lists! Thanks Katie! 🙂
These look so good. I think a trip to the supermarket for peanut butter might have just been added to my to-do list for tomorrow 🙂
YUM!
These are addictive, and I love they how were so easy to make.
Sorry, that should be “how they”.
These look lush girl!
Oh I defiantly eat when I’m full. No self control when it comes to fruit and nuts. Always have to somehow fit them in!
Ack.
And my peanut butter obsession continues….thanks a lot, Katie! 😉
I think “regretful eating” is wrong.
I mean, it’s awful to feel guilty after eating food or when you eat more than you think you should…that is not healthy, especially with all of the hype to be skinny (but not too skinny) in this society.
Why can’t we just accept ourselves, eating habits and all?
I definitely meant “you’ll regret it later” as in you’ll feel yucky later physically (as opposed to mentally). That’s why I wrote about stomachaches in my post. 😉
I could TOTALLY eat this whole batch. I think i have made something eerily similar and done that. *looks sheepish* I have to make this kind of stuff in front of my kids, so that we ALL eat it. Maybe we will do that tomorrow, as a celebration of the second day of school. and count it as breakfast too. 😉