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10 Healthy treats - Dairy free


Oatmeal and raisin cookies


I'm a comfort eater, whenever I was upset or depressed I would eat.  Im 5ft 2in and at my heaviest I weighed 13 1/2 stone.  

 I'm now a healthy 9 1/2 stone, a weight that makes my IBS much easier to control.  I tried dieting for years and none worked.  Over ten years ago I was diagnosed with depression and was lucky enough to get a great counsellor.  

 It wasn't till after I started the counselling that the light bulb went off in my head, and switching to healthy eating became easier.  I realised that since I didn't feel good about myself inside, this reflected on my weight on the outside.

 One of the things that helped me then was snacking on fresh fruit, it filled me up and was a wonderfully sweet treat.  

 As my IBS gets worse the older I get and with sugar one of the foods I can not really eat a lot of, healthy snacks are just as important to me now.  


 

Raw fruit, seed & nut truffles

 I've attempted to find as many healthy sweet treats as I could. 

  Main Criteria: 

 - Easy to make, 
- Not need a lot of extra kitchen tools.
- Dairy free



 1.  Raw Truffles
 Raw Fruit & Nut truffles

  Trio of Truffle Recipes - Gingerbread crunch, Pecan Pie, Dark Chocolate Peppermint patties

 Raw Coconut Date truffles

 Raw Vegan Peanut butter & Oat truffles



2.  Chocolate Coated.....
chocolate-clusters Recipe
Health.com

 Chocolate Covered Dried Fruit

 Chocolate Covered Dates

 Chocolate fruit & nut clusters



3. Fresh Fruit

Chocolate-Covered Bananas
martha stewart.com
Michel Roux Chocolate Covered Fruit

 Chocolate Covered Banana pops

4. Bars & Squares
raw candy.wordpress.com
Raw Date Squares
5.  Raw Chocolate



the rawtarian.com 

Raw Chocolate 

 Raw Chocolate Fudge - Use Agave Nectar to make this recipe vegan.  
6. Sauces
Rawified.blogspot.com

Raw Hot Fudge Sauce

 Raw Caramel Sauce

 Healthy Chocolate Sauce

7. Raw Cookie's
img 0475 thumb1 Raw Chocolate Chip Cookies

Oh she glows.com
5 min Raw Oatmeal Cookies

 Raw Chocolate chip cookies

 Raw Lemon Icebox cookie
8. Crunchy

Popcorn

Popcorn

 Dark chocolate Covered Popcorn
9. Fudge

 Healthy chocolate fudge

 Healthy Chocolate Mint fudge

10. Frozen Treats
Picture of Fruit Ice Pops Recipe
Food network.com

 Quick soft serve Banana Ice cream

 Cut bananas into pieces and freeze overnight

 Remove and place into a blender, add 1 tsp Cocoa Powder 
Blitz together to make your soft serve ice cream.  
Frozen Banana pops

 Amend the above Martha Stewart's Chocolate covered banana pops, to make them a frozen ice pop.

 Place the lolly pops into diced banana and freeze overnight.  

 Melt your dairy free chocolate and leave to cool slightly.  Then using the lollipop sticks dip in your bananas to cover in chocolate.  

 Then quickly roll in chopped nuts or desiccated coconut.  Transfer back the the freezer to set.  

 Fresh Fruit Ice pops


We all need a treat now and again  xxx

Comments

  1. Anna Schafer27 September 2014 at 08:31

    The worse culprits being Dairy, yeast, high sugar and fat. Iv also had to give up eating meat and poultry. Not sure what that makes me, nearest I can get is a vegan who still eats fish and eggs!healthy ice pops

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