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WIAW: Brinner

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Happy Wednesday! Welcome to my wonderful day of eats! Hope you enjoy! Thanks To Jen for hosting! 🙂

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Breakfast today was some plain greek yogurt mixed with pumpkin, apple sauce, agave, cinnamon and granola, perfect for fall.

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Lunch was a good ole’ taco salad, my favorite thing to get from the Hub. Shredded lettuce, tomatoes, onions, olives, roasted veggies, salsa, grilled chicken and of course, guacamole. This is the best!

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Made a new recipe  for dinner. Well, brinner. Pumpkin Apple Pie Stuffed French Toast, nuff said.

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Night Snack was Vanilla-Maple Arctic Zero (literally the best stuff ever!) topped with some chopped nuts, chocolate chips and Earth Balance Crunchy Coconut Peanut Butter, This was the most amazing combo ever! 

Have a great day!

Perfect Fall Breakfast: Pumpkin Apple Pie French Toast

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I love everything about fall, but mostly the flavors that come along with it.  Lets be honest here, apples and pumpkin have to be at the top of the list when it comes to fall favorite flavors!  I wanted to make a recipe incorporation both of them because why not?  The result is a delicious unquie take on a breakfast classic, French toast.  this is completely healthy and filling!  No added sugar or cream or crap or artifical stuff here!  I made this using ThinSlim bread!  Only 50 calories per slice and no artifical ingredients!  No preservatives and Non-GMO!   And for all you clean eating college students out there, this beauty was made in my dorm room!

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Pumpkin Apple Pie French Toast

Serves 2-3

  • 6 slices  Thin Slim Bread/GF/ ezekiel/ whole grain bread
  • 1 egg, whisked
  • 1/2 tsp. cinnamon
  • 1/4 tsp. vanilla extract
  • 2 Tbsp. apple sauce
  • 2 Tbsp. pumpkin puree

Filling

  • 1 apple, chopped
  • 1/2 cup cottage cheese/ greek yogurt
  • 1/2 cup apple sauce
  • 1/4 tsp. cinnamon
  • 1/3 cup pumpkin puree.
  1. In a shallow bowl, combine egg, cinnamon, vanilla, apple sauce and pumpkin puree.  Mix well.
  2. Spray cooking spray on a skillet heated on medium-low heat.  Dip slice on bread in egg mixture, making sure to coat both sides well.
  3. Place slice on skillet and cook like you would normal french toast, flipping once the first side is brown.  Repeat with remaining slices.
  4. Place chopped apple in a bowl and mix with cinnamon.  Microwave for about 2 minutes, or until apples are soft.  Add remaining ingredients to bowl and mix well.
  5. Divide filling among 3 pieces of french toast.  Add remaining slices over top the filled ones.
  6. Enjoy!

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Health Benefits:

Pumpkin

  • Chock-ful of vitamin A, E and C and potassium
  • Low calorie and fat
  • Plenty of filling fiber
  • Lots of beta carotene and other antioxidants

Apples

  • Plenty of filling fiber
  • Rich in antioxidants minerals and vitamins such as vitamin A and potassium
  • low calorie and fat
  • high water content
  • natural sugars

Recipe as a whole

  • All natural
  • No added sugar
  • No preservatives
  • No artifical flavors
  • No processed ingredients
  • Clean
  • Vitamins
  • Minerals
  • Antioxidants
  • vegetarian

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Peanut Butter and Banana French Toast Roll-ups

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I love french toast, it may be better than pancakes!  I have made so many healthy pancake recipes that I decided it was time to try something different, french toast roll-ups!  These babies have been going viral through Pinterest and other social media websites lately, but if course they are not healthy. My mission was to create the same lovely recipe, but clean it up a bit nutrition wise.  The cinnamon-sugar is a key part in making this dish, so I added all natural unrefined cane sugar that I got from Karis Naturals!  To make it even better, I added peanut butter and banana because who doesn’t love that combination?  

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Peanut Butter and Banana French Toast Roll-ups

Slices of bread are rolled thin, filled with peanut butter and banana, rolled up and dunk into egg mixture, then coated in a cinnamon sugar mixture.  If you like french toast, you love these peanut butter banana french toast roll-ups even more!

 

Peanut Butter and Banana French Toast Roll-ups

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Ingredients
  

  • Makes 10
  • 10 slices ezekiel bread/whole-grain bread
  • 1/4 cup natural peanut butter
  • 1 cup mashed banana about 2 large bananas
  • 2 eggs or 1 egg and 1 egg white, beaten (or 2 flax eggs)
  • 1/4 cup almond milk
  • 1/2 tsp. vanilla extract
  • 1 1/4 tsp. cinnamon
  • 1/4 cup coconut sugar

Instructions
 

  • Take crusts off of bread and roll each slice with a rolling pin until flat.
  • Spread peanut butter on each slice then spoon on mashed banana.  Roll the slices up and repeat for all.
  • In a shallow bowl, combine eggs, almond milk, and vanilla.  Mix well.
  • In another bowl, mix the cinnamon and sugar together.
  • Heat a skillet on medium-low heat with coated with cooking spray.
  • Dunk rolls in egg mixture, then add to skillet, cooking them until golden them turning over to the other side.  Repeat with remaining roll-ups.
  • Once out of the skillet, immediately roll in cinnamon sugar mixture.
  • Enjoy!

 

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Health Benefits

  • Protein
  • Fiber
  • Healthy fats
  • Vitamins
  • Minerals
  • All-natural
  • No preservatives
  • No processed ingredients
  • No refined sugar
  • No artificial ingredients
  • Gluten-free
  • Dairy-free
  • Vegetarian
  • Vegan
  • Low-glycemic

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