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Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies (Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free)

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April 13, 2020 By Laura Ligos, MBA, RD, CSSD Leave a Comment

Seems like no better time than now for some cookies, am I right?! In this time of uncertainty it can sometimes be helpful to pick up some new hobbies (or maybe old ones) to deal with stress and find some joy wherever you can. For me, that is in baking. I usually am more of a cook and less of a baker, but I actually got started baking in the kitchen before I ever loved cooking. These Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies are easy to make and you probably have most of the ingredients in your house already. If you don’t most are available in the stores (I looked for you!) 

Flourless Cookies 

It is hard to grasp what is going on in the world. It seems that everything changes hour to hour. Even grocery shopping has changed, which for me is quite upsetting. I love grocery shopping, I love finding new items and love getting inspiration from my shopping trips. Unfortunately, that’s just not in the cards right now. 

That all being said, there are a lot of items that are in low supply or non-existent because so many people have stock piled and left little to none for others. One complaint I’ve heard (and seen) about is flour. Everyone is stuck at home so they want to bake bread, cookies, and everything else in between. BUT there is no flour, womp, womppppp. The good news? You can now make some cookies with no flour. 

I was just grocery shopping for the first time in 3 weeks the other day, and even more good news, all the ingredients for these cookies were in stock, no shortage from what I can tell, so you are in luck. 

Can’t Eat Just One

I’ve heard from a lot of you that working from home and/or being stressed has been hard and it’s affecting your eating. Here’s the thing, it’s OKAY. We are dealing with uncharted territories, and eating a few (or all) of the cookies is not the end of the world. That being said I’m not here to tell you to go on a full blown cookie diet, I just want you to fall somewhere in between, have some cookies but eat a veggie once in a while, lay on the couch but also go for a walk when you can. We want to strive for some kind of balance right now, not so that we feel restricted but quite the opposite so that we feel energetic, joyful and also gain some sanity.

So, eat these peanut butter chocolate chip oatmeal cookies, share them if you can, and if you truly feel like you just can’t eat one, have 2 or 3, it’s OKAY 🙂 

Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies

I’m not sure what inspired me to make these cookies, it could’ve been all the instagram posts with sweet treats or maybe the TJ’s Peanut Butter Cups I’ve been eating, but for whatever reason I wanted oatmeal cookies. I didn’t feel like just any oatmeal cookie so I decided to make it with my favorite flavor combo of all time with peanut butter and chocolate chips. 

These peanut butter chocolate chip oatmeal cookies hit the spot and they are easy to make so you don’t have to go all Martha Stewart in your kitchen. Make a mess, have fun, eat the cookies right out of the oven (just be careful, you’ll probably burn your tongue), and have fun with it. 

Pro Tip: Make the cookie dough the night before and freeze in single serving sizes, then you can make as many or as little as you want, just up cooking time to 20 minutes or so. 

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Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies

Peanut butter Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies

  • Prep Time: 5 minutes
  • Cook Time: 12 minutes
  • Total Time: 17 minutes
  • Yield: 12 1x
  • Category: Dessert, Snack
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Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup coconut oil or butter (melted)
  • 1/2 cup brown sugar
  • 1/4 cup maple syrup
  • 1/2 cup peanut butter
  • 1 large egg
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 3/4 cup oat flour
  • 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1 cup rolled oats
  • 1/2 cup chocolate chips

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350F and cover a cookie sheet with parchment paper.
  2. Whisk butter/coconut oil with brown sugar, maple syrup, peanut butter, egg & vanilla in a large bowl until smooth.
  3. Mix oat flour, baking soda, salt, and rolled oats in a medium bowl.
  4. Add dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and mix until well combined.
  5. Fold in chocolate chips and place bowl in refrigerator for 10-20 minutes.
  6. Drop by heaping spoonfuls onto lined baking sheet and bake for 12 minutes. Allow cookies to cool a few minutes before transferring them to a wire rack.

Notes

To make oat flour, pulse oats in a food processor or blender for 30 seconds and boom! you have oat flour. 

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Okay, that is all for now. If you do get the urge to make these simple cookies, make sure you tag me @thesassydietitian and share with me how they taste!

Have a recipe request? I’m all ears, just comment below or shoot me a message. 

xoxo,

Sassy 

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We’ve made it over a week together and it feels We’ve made it over a week together and it feels like it’s always been this way.

Motherhood is a wild ride & it’s only getting started. I have never been so tired & simultaneously so fulfilled in my life. That’s not to say it’s not filled with tears, worries and doubts but what fun would it be if it were all sunshine and roses anyway?

Going into this all I have felt so supported by friends going through this with me BUT I felt so unsupported by the general public. It seems like we want to fear and shame moms because misery loves company, right?!

The focus quickly shifts from mom to baby (still shocked that I only have an appointment at 6 weeks even though my body went through the biggest event of its life) and there also seems to be this shift from joy to shame & guilt.

Here’s some of what I heard from people:

😕Sleep when baby sleeps. You’ll never sleep again.
😕Don’t let baby sleep in a car seat, or a bouncer, or anywhere but their crib EVER. 
😕You’ll never have time to shower again, enjoy it now. 
😕Cry it out is cruel and harmful to the baby. 
😕Get baby on a schedule/never put baby on a schedule.

These are all things I heard and that truly led me to believe I was going to lose all sense of who I was and my life as I knew it.

What I wish people had said instead were:

🥰Your heart will grow bigger than you could imagine.
🥰You’ll cry the happiest tears you’ve ever cried.
🥰You’ll feel like a giant hole was filled that you didn’t even know was there.
🥰You won’t feel guilty about cleaning your house, it just won’t matter anymore.
🥰Babies pooping will make you laugh so hard you will feel like a kid again.
🥰You will have time to eat and shower and you don’t have to neglect yourself.

We need to do a better job of building each other up, supporting one another and our decisions while refraining from offering unsolicited advice and opinions. 

So for all you future mamas and new mamas out there, I see you, I’m proud of you and I cannot wait to share our stories with one another and the world.

Let’s stop fear mongering (just like the diet world) and start building one another up.

Xoxo,
Sassy & lil sassy man
🌈Some things truly are worth the wait. It’s b 🌈Some things truly are worth the wait. It’s been a long year of loss, unknowns and worry but it’s all been worth it to get to meet my lil man🥰
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Now time to introduce this sassy human who is already so well loved to the world...
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Introducing 

💙 Connor James Ligos 💙
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After an almost 24 hour labor, Connor joined us over a week past his due date on 2/12/21 at a whopping 9lb2oz & 22.5 inches long with a full head of hair and lungs to scream hello to us with.
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We are so in love already and cannot wait to share him with the world. Thank you for all the love and support from friends and family and to all those that helped us in the hospital. Holy cow labor & delivery teams are truly magical and I cannot imagine doing it without all of their support.
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Now back to snuggling this human of mine and trying not to cry at every last thing he does 🥰 
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Mom, Dad & Bode are all doing well!
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I get it, we all eat so we all then want to talk t I get it, we all eat so we all then want to talk to others about what worked for us. That's great!
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What's not great is when we push our nutrition and eating behaviors onto others ESPECIALLY when we are not qualified to do so.
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So often when people meet me for the first time they are worried to eat around me and/or buy groceries around me. My friends can attest I am not judgemental around food and will gladly eat that cake, queso dip or sip on that glass of wine right alongside of you. I am not the food police and do not offer unsolicited nutrition advice unless it's a client who is paying for my help OR on Instagram and other social media platforms where my goal is to educate.
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Why do I share this? 
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Because I see far too many people diving down diet rabbit holes, finding success & then claiming to be nutrition experts purely because something worked for them. 
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I've also seen this alot being pregnant, everyone wants to tell you what worked for them. IF you use that stipulation of "this worked for me" then fine, share away but if you start doleing out advice please pause, take a breath and think about NOT doing it.
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People are OVERWHELMED by diet culture and some so badly want to change but YOUR way is not the only way and it most likely is not what will work for your friend/coworker/cousin/neighbor so please, stop trying to be an expert in something you aren't.
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Got it!?! 
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Ok, carry on.
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xoxo,
Sassy
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#nutrition #nutritiontips #nutritionist #dietitianapproved #rdapproved #rdchat #dietitiansofinstagram #dietitian #dietitiansofig #albanyny #albanynutrition #albanynutrition
Your nutrition does NOT need to be all or nothing. Your nutrition does NOT need to be all or nothing. I'm not saying you have to find perfect balance (does that even exist?) but I am saying that we shouldn't feel like either we have to eat perfectly or that we might as well give up.
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Instead we should look to the grey area in between for our nutrition guidance. 
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What do I mean?
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I mean that we need to realize that we can still eat cookies but we probably should throw some veggies in there. 
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We can have a glass or 2 of wine but we should probably also drink some water. 
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We can take rest days but we should also find ways to move our bodies regularly.
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And the list goes on.
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It's not about all or nothing it's about doing something daily to help your health and nutrition without it feeling like a set of rules or a free for all.
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How do we find that grey area in between?
👉🏻 stop hopping on and off fad diets
👉🏻listen and trust your self, not your coworkers and cousins 
👉🏻focus on the simple things (ie drinking water instead of worrying about supplements)
👉🏻work to remove guilt and shame around food & body
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Where do you currently fall Right now?!
🤪 all
👍🏻in between 
🙅🏻‍♀️ nothing 
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Xoxo,
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#dietitian #dietitiansofig #dietitiansofinstagram #nutrition #nutritionist #nutritiontips #thesassydietitian #rdchat #realtalk

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