Tasty Bites: B is for Breakfast!
Friday, March 12, 2010 at 8:09AM MAD21 By Candy, RN (Steele the Day)
There are eight B vitamins, usually referred to as the B-complex vitamins. B vitamins play an important part in the health of skin and mucous membranes, including hair, mouth, and eyes. Folic acid is a B vitamin and proper intake is essential for women to avoid certain birth defects. B vitamins also aid in the function of the nervous system by the breakdown of fats and proteins, and play important roles in heart health, circulation, and immunity. No one B vitamin does the trick – they work their magic when they are consumed together.
Deficiency in Vitamin B can lead to insomnia, memory loss, numbness and tingling, and a host of other symptoms. A well-balanced diet will ensure proper Vitamin B intake, but some people, including the elderly and people under excessive stress, need supplements. Check with your doctor if you think you may be deficient in Vitamin B.
Good sources of B include whole-grain cereals, rice, nuts, milk, eggs, meats, fish, fruits, and leafy green vegetables. Whip up this Breakfast Oatmeal Cookie before you go to bed. In the morning, toss on a few berries, nuts, and fruit, drizzle with honey or agave nectar and you have a great start to your day with a lot of B Vitamins.
Overnight Chocolate Breakfast Cookie
½ banana, mashed
⅓ cup rolled oats
2 Tbsp ground flax seed
1 Tbsp almond butter
1 tsp cocoa powder
3 Tablespoons almond milk
Mash banana and mix remainder of ingredients in a bowl thoroughly. Place on salad-size plate and flatten with a fork so it resembles a large cookie. Wrap with plastic wrap and place in refrigerator overnight. In the morning, top as you choose - banana, berries, chopped nuts, and coconut make great toppings, but use your imagination!
Candy Steele is a registered nurse who has worked with cardiac patients for over thirty years. “Functional foods” have become her passion, and she enjoys sharing her love of cooking, a random life and a faithful Jesus with her friends at Steele (the Day). She is blessed with three grown children, a new daughter-in-law, and a kind and patient husband who only knows how to fix popcorn (but she’s OK with that).
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Reader Comments (6)
Are Candy's recipes going to be a weekly feature? If so, will you put up a link on ;your sidebar so I can easily find her recipes. I keep telling her she needs a blog devoted to recipes, but she ignores me. I'd be satisfied with her as a weekly feature here. Please help!
Sounds delicious!
I make the recipe below - which is healthier than bought bars, but not quite as healthy as yours, Candy, so I look forward to getting the ing to try yours
1 cup oatmeal
3 TBSP peanut butter
2 pkg diet hot chocolate mix
5 TBSP raisins
6 TBSP water
2 pks sweetner (I use Truvia)
MIx thoroughly - will be sticky. Form into bar on foil. Makes 3 or 4 depending on the size. Freeze overnight before eating. Take out of freeze about 10 mins before eating.
I usually double this recipe (my hubby and 3 boys like them also)
Yep Helen. She's posting every week. "Tasty Bites" is the link to her posts that have all the recipes. She's not ignoring you :o) Now that Candy's site has almost finished getting it's face-lift, she plans to also post a link to my site when she posts her recipes here every Friday.
Janet- Your recipe sounds good. I'll have to try it, too! Thanks for sharing it!
This looks great. Might have to try it very soon.
As for Helen's idea of a blog devoted to her recipes, she could just use steeletheday.com and setup a category for recipes.
Janet, I'll have to try those bars. Never thought of using hot chocolate mix. Might just whip those up for the weekend. I really love raw-ish oatmeal but Nick does me one better. I think he eats steel-cut oats raw, if I remember right.
In my recipe - instead of oatmeal (what was I thinking) it should say rolled or quick oats.