CINNAMON VANILLA BREAKFAST PROTEIN BITES {NO BAKE, VEGAN FRIENDLY}

 No-bake protein bites are a great anytime snack! Cinnamon Vanilla Breakfast Protein Bites are super easy to make. Healthy, great for snacks or breakfast on the go, and kid-friendly. Learn how to make gluten-free no-bake protein bites in this step by step video!

You guys!!! It’s BONUS BITES month!! So.. I’m posting on a Saturday. And here’s the scoop.  You’re gonna get a behind the scenes look of how I actually make healthy bites, or in this case, gluten free no bake protein bites!

The truth is, I have been working on redoing both my Healthy Bites ebooks. Re-shooting the photos and the recipes. The first ebook (not the free one) was created in 2009! That’s SO OLD in blog years. It was time to update and upgrade. These healthy bites include the vegan-friendly option, paleo option, and just plain gluten-free protein bite options. All no baking of course. I re-tested the recipe, tweaked the ingredients, made them more simple, and had several tastes test them again.

Guess what? I’m ALMOST DONE! One more to go. Then all you who purchased the ebook will get an email with the upgrade. Phew!

I’m excited and wanted to share, hence this video tutorial and one of my VERY FAVORITE no bake protein bite recipes from the first ebook.

In my video, you will see I have several options for the gluten-free cereal base. Oats, rice crisps, gluten-free Chex cereal, banana chips, etc. Whatever works just as long as you get a good base “meal/flour.” You can do that by using quick oats (I use love grown foods quick oats) or by grinding up your cereal.

HOW TO MAKE CINNAMON VANILLA NO BAKE PROTEIN BITES

No Bake Cinnamon Vanilla Breakfast Protein Bites

 

Let me know what you think of the video or if you have any questions about these no-bake breakfast protein bites! There are lots of easy substitutes if need be. Oh and be sure to use a creamy nut butter that stirs easy. That’s crucial

Ready to make and NO BAKE?

CINNAMON VANILLA BREAKFAST NO BAKE PROTEIN BITES! GLUTEN FREE, VEGAN-FRIENDLY, AND SERIOUSLY SO GOOD FOR BREAKFAST ON THE GO OR POST WORKOUT PROTEIN SNACKING!


Cinnamon Vanilla Breakfast Protein Bites {No Bake, Gluten Free, Vegan-Friendly}

INGREDIENTS
1 heaping TBSP ground cinnamon
1/4 cup (around 65-75grams) Vanilla Protein Powder
1/4 to 1/3 cup maple syrup or honey if you are not vegan.·
1/2 cup almond meal or peanut flour (you can also just finely grind raw almonds) ·
1/4 to 1/3 cup nut butter (creamy no stir works best)
3/4 cup of gluten-free quick oats or gluten-free cereal of choice
1/2 tsp to 1 tsp Vanilla extract

INSTRUCTIONS
Grind up your oats or cereal in a food processor and transfer into a mixing bowl. This is optional. You can keep them whole as well and adjust the addition of honey.
Add your almond meal, protein powder, cinnamon, and nut butter. Stir ingredients all together.
Add in your honey and vanilla then mix again well with hands.
You might need to add more honey or nut butter if the batter gets to dry. See notes.
Roll into 1-1.5 inch balls and place on a cookie tray or plastic ware with parchment paper underneath.
Let them freeze for 20-30 minutes then transfer into a Ziploc bag.
Dust with additional cinnamon and vanilla protein if desired.
Keep in fridge or freezer for up to 6 weeks.

DID YOU MAKE THIS RECIPE?





Grab your favorite vanilla protein, combined with your favorite gluten-free cereal/oats, and then roll it all together with cinnamon and nut butter. It’s OH SO GOOD! Like a cinnamon bun.. okay not really but close to it!

Enjoy and keep me posted!



Do you have a go-to no bake protein bites recipe? Do share!

Source: www.cottercrunch.com

This Is What Happens To Your Face After Washing It With Coconut Oil & Baking Soda?

‘I want to look good’ this is what every woman thinks every day. She tries different things to make her dream of looking good all the time true. Women keep buying cosmetic creams to improve the texture of their skin. This highly expensive creams promise to provide smooth and vibrant skin but often fail to keep the promises.

The cosmetic creams consist of a lot of chemicals which can actually damage your sensitive skin and promote the fast aging process. Thus, you need a skincare product which nourishes your skin to make it smooth and clear. So, if you are looking for a single solution to all your skin issues and want to look beautiful then come closer to nature.

The natural ingredients are more reliable when it comes to the skin care topic. It provides nourishment to the skin and protects it from the harmful infections. A homemade facial cream with 2 ingredients will be an affordable solution on skin issue. The homemade facial cream requires ingredients like baking soda and coconut oil which is available in almost every house. This cream is very effective to treat the acne-prone and problematic skin.

The homemade cream is free from chemicals and perfect solution to your troubles. It combination of the two ingredients provides relief from acne, reduces the redness of the pimples, helps to get rid of scars as well as cleanse and exfoliate your skin. So, it is must try cream if you want to improve the texture of your skin.

Baking soda is a not only ingredients required for baking cookies and cake, it is actually a medicinal ingredient which is very helpful to maintain good health. It is a cleaning agent which helps to eliminate toxins from the body and skin. It is widely used for teeth whitening and the treatment of acne. It effectively balances the pH level of the skin and thus protects it from harmful infections. It prevents the skin breakouts and heals the damaged skin instantly.

The second ingredients of the homemade cream are coconut oil. This ingredient is well known for the properties like anti-bacterial and healing properties as well as act as a moisturizing agent. It nourishes the skin and becomes the dead cells very gently. Its combination with baking soda helps to neutralize the harshness of baking soda and make this cream suitable for sensitive skin as well. While buying the coconut oil make sure you go for organic and wet-milled traditional coconut oil as it is very effective for skin care.

How to use baking soda and coconut oil as a deep cleanser

Here is a detailed recipe for the homemade facial cream to cleanse your skin and improve the texture of your skin.

Ingredients

Coconut oil- 1 tbsp 

baking soda- 1 tbsp

Preparation Method For normal and oily skin the combination of coconut oil and baking soda should be in 1:1 ratio whereas if you have a sensitive skin then mix 2 parts of coconut oil for 1 part of baking soda. Mix the two ingredients well to create a smooth and creamy paste. Apply the paste to your face using your fingertips. 

Allow the mask to remain on your skin for 2-3 minutes. Remove the mask using warm water. Wash your face properly and tap it dry. Use this facial cream twice a week to get the smooth and radiant skin. 

The regular application of this cream or mask will keep your skin healthy and free from infection. The acne issue will vanish in no time and your skin will become smooth and clear. Try this homemade cream today

An Egg Is What You Need To Control Your Blood Sugar! This Is What You Must Do!

Diabetes is one of the most common illnesses nowadays and more and more people have it every day, no matter their age, gender or social status.

Beyond being related to problems with the blood sugar, the true thing is that in the long run, diabetes causes major problems to our body, like for example, deterioration of the nerves and problems with the kidneys. In the most serious cases, some people even need leg or foot amputation.

According to the National Federation of the Diabetes, one of the countries with the greatest index of diabetic population in the Philippines. Nevertheless, a Philippine doctor claims to have discovered a homemade remedy for this illness.

Homemade remedy against diabetes

A doctor called Jaime Dy-Liacco is a specialist in metabolic medicine and he claims that he has found a homemade remedy against diabetes composed of only several ingredients!

The doctor is almost ninety years of age and he assures his patients that problem with diabetes does not reside in the sugar like it was believed until now, but it is a question of an illness caused by the absence of six minerals that are necessary for the human body.

According to his researches, if you give these minerals to your organism in the quantity it needs them, then it is not necessary to worry about the ingestion of sugar.

So, what does this recipe consist of? You will only need several ingredients that may already have in your kitchen!

Egg Recipe To Control Your Blood Sugar

Ingredients

12 chili peppers

2 eggs

1/2 teaspoon of marine salt

Preparation:

It seems incredible that you are going to get rid of this terrible illness with so little, but it is true.


Once you have assembled the ingredients, do this:

1. Cut the peppers and crush them well.

2. Then, break the eggs and mix them with the crushed chili.

3. Add the teaspoonful of marine salt and stir everything very well.

Your homemade remedy is ready!

Consume it for several days and you will say goodbye to diabetes!

The man dug a tunnel from home to the pub and drank every night while his wife slept

A plumber from Ireland, believed or not, dug a tunnel from his bedroom to a local pub, located 800 meters away from his home.

It took him 15 years to get it, and he came up with an idea after seeing the movie "The Shawshank Redemption".The reason - his wife snoring extremely loud.

Patsy K. received a summons to the court after thanks to him sewage pipe under his neighbor's house blew. He told the court everything related to his tunnel, as well as the reasons he had been digging for the past 15 years.

- My wife has a snoring problem. After watching the movie "The Shawshank Redemption" in 1994, I decided to do something about it, so I started digging a hole under the bed in the direction of a pub. I used all kinds of tools, from spoons to tunnel drills that I managed to take to the hole while my wife was in shopping. It was only in 2009 that I managed to go to the other side, in the women's toilet and storage room - said Patsy.

For the past five years, Patsy went to the pub every night at 11:00 pm and returned in one hour after midnight. His wife did not even think what her husband was doing and where he was going when she fell asleep.

- To be honest, I'm glad to be caught. My wife always felt that I smelled of alcohol, and I answered that it was my natural scent. It was just a matter of time when someone would catch me. The owner of the pub always wondered how I always came from nowhere, and how I got out of the women's toilet - said, Patsy.

The tunnel was discovered after a sewage problem emerged caused by a crack by Patsy accidentally struck while digging a hole.

How to get rid of man boobs once and for all

It often happens that the stronger sex, whether it comes to the younger population or men of mature age, have difficulties to get rid of the so-called "man boobs". It is a diagnosis that is technically called gynecomastia (Gr. Gyne - women, mastos- chest) and it is facing an extremely high number of male population (on average, one in three men under the age of 40). The most common cause of the phenomenon is the excessive accumulation of fat or glandular tissue in the breast area.

Just in regular training to insert a few exercises that will help you lose excess weight and build muscles. In addition, to shape the breast, this exercise will activate the muscles of the back and buttocks.

More and more men opt for the cosmetic procedure to reduce the "man boobs", ie. a build-up of excess fat in that area. The good news is that because of this problem you do not necessarily have to go under the knife.

Training:

You need the weights of 7,5 (16 lb) or 10 kilograms (22 lb). Each exercise is performed in supersets. Start with exercise 1Aand do as many reps in 30 seconds. Then rest for 30 seconds and get to the exercise 1B, do as many reps in 30 seconds and rest again 30 seconds. This is one round. Make 4 rounds first superset and rest for 2 minutes before you go to the second round and do 4 supersets. Training works 2 or 3 times a week.

1. superset:

1A Chest supported dumbbell row

Chest supported dumbbell row is a hell of a good workout. Not only that builds the lats, but the trapeze and the front and back muscles of the spinal column.

Unfortunately, there are few who can do this exercise correctly. Most people after they add more 10 to 20 kg on each side of the bar, beginning to bend back, abolish primary goal of the movement, and cause injury!

  

1B Goblet squat with dumbbell

Doing squats with dumbbells, you can at the same time work and biceps curls, triceps stretching behind the head, thrust his shoulders and more isolation exercises that activate the muscles of the upper body and especially arm muscles.

  

2. superset:

2A Dumbbell 1½ push-ups

The biggest advantage of push-ups is that they do not require additional equipment, can be done anywhere and engage important muscle groups.

  

2B Dumbbell skier swing

This workout is confirmation that you do not need to bother with a super entangled move to get an extraordinary workout. Tony Gentilcore, a well-known fitness coach, and strength and conditioning specialist says this weighted activity engages your glutes, hamstrings, center, and shoulders to offer you some assistance with scoring an inside and out stunning body. Basic? More like basically impressing.

Reasons for Elevated A1c Without Diabetes

 An A1c blood test, also called hemoglobin A1c, is recommended by the American Diabetes Association (ADA) for prediabetes and diabetes screening and recommended for routine monitoring of blood sugar levels in people with diabetes. 

A1c is a form of hemoglobin -- a protein in red blood cells -- that has combined with a molecule of blood sugar or glucose. As a marker for how much glucose has been present in the blood over time, elevated A1c values are most commonly seen in people with prediabetes and diabetes. However, in certain medical situations, A1c may be elevated in someone who does not have these conditions.

Blood Glucose History

A1c forms naturally when glucose is present in the blood. The percentage of A1c increases in proportion to the average blood glucose level over the previous 2 to 3 months -- a reflection of the average lifespan of red blood cells. An A1c test of 5.6 percent or below is reflective of normal blood sugar levels -- or a daily average below 115. According to the 2016 ADA clinical practice recommendations, the A1c test may be used to reliably diagnose prediabetes and diabetes. According to these guidelines, an A1c of 5.7 to 6.4 percent is used to diagnosed prediabetes, and an A1c of 6.5 percent can be used to confirm the diagnosis of diabetes.

Anemia

An A1c value represents the percent of the total hemoglobin in the A1c form. Both an increase of A1c hemoglobin -- due to the presence of high blood sugar -- or a decrease in total hemoglobin can make the A1c percentage higher. Certain types of anemia associated with decreased hemoglobin production or longer lifespan of red blood cells can elevate the proportion of hemoglobin present in the A1c form. People with anemia due to lack of iron, folate or vitamin B12 may have an elevated A1c without having diabetes. Even the anemia common in the last trimester of pregnancy can falsely elevate A1c levels. Anemia caused by certain types of kidney disease may also cause an increased A1c level.

Genetic Conditions

People with genetic conditions that affect the composition of their hemoglobin proteins may have high A1c values without diabetes. Examples of genetic conditions that may cause a falsely elevated A1c value include sickle cell trait and S-beta-thalassemia. However, several genetic blood disorders that cause premature red blood cell breakdown commonly cause low A1c values. If you carry the sickle cell trait or another one of these genetic hemoglobin disorders, your doctor may be able to use a different A1c assay or type of blood test to accurately measure your average blood sugar level.

Medications

Certain medications may also cause elevated A1c test results. Examples of drugs that increase blood glucose levels, even in people without diabetes, include corticosteroids, such as prednisone, and the antiseizure medication phenytoin (Dilantin). Some antiviral medications used to treat human immunodeficiency virus can also elevate blood glucose, including fosamprenavir (Lexiva) and saquinavir (Invirase). Drugs used after organ transplantation may suppress hemoglobin production and cause an increase in A1c levels. If the A1c test accurately reflects elevations in blood glucose levels, treatment may be needed to correct this drug side effect. If high blood sugar levels persist or if you need to be on this drug long-term, your doctor may refer to your condition as drug-induced diabetes.

Next Steps

There are a variety of reasons that an A1c level may be increased in someone without diabetes. While efforts to standardize A1c tests have been in place since 1996, inaccuracies in measurement and suboptimal standardization still persists, according to a report in the May 2011 issue of "Diabetes Care." Certain chemicals in the blood formed naturally or from the use of medicines may also interfere with the test. Since the A1c test is a reflection of average blood glucose control, your doctor can order other blood tests if a falsely high level is suspected. If you are concerned about the accuracy of your A1c test result, talk to your doctor.

In just a few days your skin will become milky white and spotless

We all want to have glowing spotless skin complexion, which means no acne/pimple, scars on our face. We want all of them, right?




 Believe us ladies, you can really have this. Today we are going to show you one natural solution, that you can spray it all over your clean face before going to bed and let it act overnight. In just a few days, you can see how your skin is changing in an unexpected way.



To prepare this facial spray, you will need:

Coconut Water

Rose Water.

Preparation:

In a bowl take coconut water.
Add an equal amount of rose water.
Mix it and your facial spray is ready to use
Store this liquid in a spray bottle.
You can store this facial spray in refrigerator up to one month.