Healthy Options!

On Tuesday I picked up this magazine in Walmart. It's a new one from 'Taste of Home', called Healthy Cooking. Of course I'm all in to healthy cooking right now and trying to get us all to eat more veggies etc so I was all over this :-)

Yesterday I did a little baking in the kitchen. The magazine has a recipe in for some healthy pancakes. I made those first, and sampled a couple myself. These are primarily for Kristen because she usually has Pilsbury Pancakes for breakfast! And I want her to try a more healthy option.

These are made with wholewheat flour and are obviously 'different' to the pancake taste Kristen is so used to (why or why didn't I just make healthy ones from the get go!). I thought they were ok, but not very sweet, but I could get used to eating them, if I actually ate pancakes for breakfast - but I don't! I'll let you know what Kristen's verdict is when she's tasted them.

After making the pancakes I did some 'healthy' cookies. I've decided not to buy any more cookies from the store (for now!), but instead I'll try to make some healthy versions once every week or two. I don't mind Kristen having a cookie each day if it's full of 'good stuff' like whole wheat and oats. So I found the Sun-Maid recipe that I'd tried before and made those again. I did try these a few months ago but not sure if I ever blogged about it because I didn't have enough oats and they didn't turn out quite the way they should - still tasty, but a little flat.

These ones turned out pretty yummy though :-) Kristen isn't very keen on raisins (big surprise - not) so I split the mixture and tried half with some chocolate chips for her and did the other half with raisins. Oatmeal and raisin cookies are one of my favorites, so I shall be indulging in one or two myself ;-)

I don't have to do library duty today. Jean, the director has found another girl who will share Thursday mornings with me. So this week I don't need to be there, but I'll cover next week. After that we are only going to open one more month on those days and then probably close during the Summer. Hardly anyone is calling in during the week, so I think Jean just plans to open it up on Sundays when there are a lot more people around.

It's book club tonight, I always look forward to that :-) We read Beach Road by James Patterson this month. It's the first book of his I've ever read, and I can say with certainty that it will probably be the last! I just wasn't that impressed with his writing style, or his story line for that matter!