Cookies with capes are good enough for me

[While brainstorming a title for this post,"Super cookies" had me thinking of "super Grover" but also Cookie Monster. Now I'm thinking that "Super Cookie" would have been Cookie Monster's alter ego if such a character existed.]

Last week at Ethiopian House when everyone thought they were too full to eat another bite I brought out dessert: Maple Oatmeal Super Cookies that I’d made two days before, Meghan’s recipe. My friends guessed what was in them and then asked for the recipe. For them and you, here it is:

(Maple Oatmeal) Super Cookies
1/2 cup rolled oats
1 Tbsp coconut oil
1 Tbsp pure maple syrup
3 Tbsp raw honey
1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract
2 Tbsp (30 ml) finely ground flax seeds
3 Tbsp  whole flax seeds
1 Tbs chia seeds
2 Tbs cacao nibs
2 Tbs golden berries or goji berries (optional)
1/4 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp baking powder
1/8 tsp fine sea salt

  • Preheat oven to 350F (180C).  Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.
  • Mix all ingredients together with hands or spoon
  • Dollop about 1 Tbs worth onto cookie sheet and form into cookie shape- not too thin though as they do flatten as they cook
  • Bake for about 10-12 minutes.

I made minor modifications but this time I’m not going to share them. Make the above recipe and then tweak it to your own tastes. It’s a simple recipe and the resulting cookies keep well if you can avoiding eating them all. Best stored in the fridge if you like a firmer cookie, or outside the fridge if you want a pliable cookie. Don’t be surprised if your firm cookies becomes pliable – crumbly even – after a couple of hours unrefrigerated.

Want more recipes like it? It’s in Meghan’s Healing with Superfoods Guide. Buy it! It’s only $12.

And finally, since I’m on a Sesame Street theme…


“Haircuts do not hurt, but crashing through doors is quite painful”

“That gentleman is no gentleman.”
The voice actors must have laughed through so many takes of Sesame Street.

5 Days Healing with Everyday Superfoods

From Meghan Telpner’s well-being arsenal comes her latest tutorial, Healing with Everyday Superfoods. Take a look. The cover is one of my favourite colours.

5 Days Healing with Superfoods

5 Days Healing with Superfoods

The first group challenge will start on Sunday, April 18th. The tutorial is now available for purchase, for the low price of $12.

You don’t have to participate in the group challenge in order to use the tutorial but here are a some advantages to the group challenge:

  • Themed posts on Meghan’s blog all week.
  • Twitter coaching (@meghantelpner)
  • Group support through Meghan’s blog.

5 Days Healing with Everyday Superfoods, in Meghan’s words:

If food is what is making us sick in our society, what if we amp up our diets and use food to resolve the problem too. What if we looked at food as our fuel, as our medicine and made it easy, delicious, and so uber powerful that our body had no choice but to heal and repair itself? That is what this tutorial is about.

The more I began to learn about the healing properties of these superfoods, the more of them I wanted in my diet. What was missing for me, in everything I was reading, was the inherent lack of practicality. Some might argue that being able to throw everything into a blender, stir it together, and drink your meal down is the ultimate in practical. True, it might be for some people. But what about the people who have families to feed, who want to sit down to a meal with others, who get genuine pleasure from being in the kitchen and finding creative ways to blend raw superfoods, cooked superfoods and plain old whole, unprocessed foods into delicious meals?  That is where this tutorial comes in.

I will show you how to incorporate these superfoods into your everyday eating.

The guide contains 60 + pages of info including (but of course not limited to):

•    The Definition of a Superfood
•    Benefits of Whole Foods
•    Food as Fuel
•    Food as Medicine
•    Challenges with Food Guides and Diets
•    Calories Versus Nutrition
•    Benefits of Raw

Additional Resources
•    Conscious Eating
•    Sprouting 101
•    Food and Mood Journal
•    Whole Foods Shopping List
•    Blank Meal Plan Template

Even if this is not a program you want to follow full on right now, or even in the near future, the information included will  enlighten many of your food decisions and help you to understand how easily you can super-power your eating everyday!

You can read more about the Healing with Everyday Superfoods tutorial on her website here and here.

Also check out Meghan’s other e-tutorials: Green Smoothie Cleanse, Low GI eating, 5 Days Vegan, and The Lunar Cycle: Hormone Balance.

Meghan’s tutorials are her answer to the many questions and comments she gets via email and on her blog from people who are feeling challenged in their endeavors to transition to a healthier way of living but don’t know where to begin. She synthesizes years of nutrition education, kitchen experience, teaching experience, client/consultation experience, and her big book shelf into the vital information you need to know in one concise package. The guides are interesting, inspiring and at some points quirky, like Meghan herself. Meghan tries to make the meal plans and recipes easy, achievable and sustainable.

Regarding her e-tutorials, she says: “I am in no way working to convert anyone to any single way of eating, only to explore new and healthy foods, and new and healthy practices so my readers can decide what works for them and what doesn’t on an individual basis.

Visit Meghan’s store to see everything she has to offer (for sale, that is).

Eat well, be well.

Edit: No, I’m not running a contest. Maybe I will in the future but I don’t think I have enough readers to make it fun. I’d want people fighting for it. :)

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