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Healthy Recipe Round Up!

Healthy Recipe Round Up!

Happy New Year! I hope you enjoyed the holiday season filled with love, laughter, and of course good food. So What’s your New Year’s goal? To eat healthier? Need a little inspiration? today’s post is a round up of healthy recipes that not only taste…

Kale Salad with Roasted Butternut Squash!

Kale Salad with Roasted Butternut Squash!

How was your Christmas? Did you overindulge? Unfortunately, my husband got the flu and our little sweet pea got a milder version, thankfully.  Hence, not much over eating in our household over this holiday season.  Are you looking for a healthy salad to finish off…

Whole Wheat Oatmeal Blueberry Pancakes

Whole Wheat Oatmeal Blueberry Pancakes

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I remember my dad making Aunt Jemima pancakes every Sunday morning.  To this day, I still love my buttermilk pancakes drizzled with maple syrup. I am always trying to recreate recipes to make them healthier.  To these pancakes I added some rolled oats and blueberries for some extra fibre, antioxidants, and deliciousness.

I am lucky, my little Miss E loves to help make pancakes as much as she loves to eat them. I think I spend just as much time telling her not to eat the flour and oats than making the actual pancakes.  I ‘ll turn my head for one second and I catch this little grin with her hand in the flour or oats. So funny, she is such a “ham”. Thankfully, she understands not to eat raw eggs or as she calls them “rotten” eggs. I have this vision of her telling her daycare buddies her mama says not to eat “rotten” eggs in the pancake batter.  I love this age, I think I say that about every age but this little munchkin has me laughing daily.

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These pancakes turned out perfect the first time, fluffy and delicious. Miss E had 2 servings for breakfast and dinner, plus veggies I promise. Miss Q liked them too, she had blueberries all over her and the highchair. These pancakes are a regular Sunday morning breakfast in our household.

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Whole Wheat Oatmeal Blueberry Pancakes

Yields 10

10 minPrep Time

10 minCook Time

20 minTotal Time

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Ingredients

  • 2 cups of whole wheat flour
  • 1/2 cup large flake oats
  • 2 TBSP sugar
  • 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp baking soda
  • Pinch of salt
  • 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 1/2 cups of buttermilk
  • 3 TBSP melted butter

Instructions

  1. ). Melt butter and cool slightly
  2. ). Combine dry ingredients in a large bowl, gently mix ingredients
  3. ). In a separate bowl, beat eggs and add buttermilk, vanilla, and cooled butter
  4. ). Combine wet ingredients with dry ingredients, do not over mix. Gently fold in blueberries.
  5. ). Heat griddle or pan with vegetable spray over medium heat, pour pancakes and flip when bubbles appear, approximately 2-3 minutes.
  6. ). Drizzle with maple syrup .
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https://www.zestnutrition.ca/whole-wheat-oatmeal-blueberry-pancakes/

I hope you enjoy these pancakes as much as we did!!!

Hearty Vegetable Soup

Hearty Vegetable Soup

There is nothing like a hot bowl of soup on a cold winter day. Most Vancouverites, including myself, are babies when the temperature falls below zero. So when it was cold and wet last week  I made this soup and it hit the spot.  Ok, enough…

Nutrient Dense Foods for the Whole Family!

Nutrient Dense Foods for the Whole Family!

I don’t really like the term “super food” because I feel there is no miracle food, sorry kale, that is going to keep us healthy, instead a variety of foods that are nutrient dense. I have compiled a list of foods that are packed with…