Paleo Baby "Num-Nums"

I've looked everywhere for a cracker-type snack for my little one to eat when we're on the go. He loves meats, veggies and fruits, but they are a little more difficult to travel with since they need to be refrigerated. Also, I'm a little leery of giving him too many dehydrated fruits. I have inspected the ingredient panel of almost every box of snackies and have found the leading ingredients to be rice, corn or wheat flour. So, I set out to make some using coconut flour instead.

Ingredients:

2 Tbs coconut flour

4-5 Tbs sweet potato puree

1 Tbs bacon fat

Directions:

Preheat oven to 375F. Grease baking sheet with bacon fat.

Measure out coconut flour into mixing bowl. Melt bacon fat in saucepan over low heat, add in sweet potato. Once combined, add mixture to coconut flour. Stir until dough forms. 

Press dough into greased baking sheet and bake for approximately 10 minutes depending on desired thickness of crackers.

Cut crackers into desired length or crumble into bite-size pieces.

These taste great and dissolve quickly!

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Paleo Cookies!

My husband and I have recently taken up the paleo diet and primal lifestyle after reading Mark Sisson's Primal Blueprint. My husband has since lost 30 lbs and I weigh 10 lbs (ok, 7) less than I did pre-baby! The only difficulty we've had is with desserts. I have a major sweet tooth, and it's genetic. I can't fight it! So, I came up with this pretty yummy recipe for cookies. My mother-in-law even likes them!

Ingredients:
1 banana
1 egg
1 Tbs coconut oil
4-5 Tbs honey
1 tsp vanilla
1/4 cup coconut flour
2 Tbs unsweetened coconut flakes
1/4 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp nutmeg
1/4 tsp salt
4 pitted dates, diced
1/4 cup crushed walnuts
1/4 cup cranberries

Directions:
Preheat oven to 350.

Mash banana in large mixing bowl. Mix in egg, coconut oil, vanilla and honey. Add in coconut flour and flakes, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt. Add in dates, walnuts and cranberries.

Roll dough into cookie-size balls and flatten out with hand slightly. Place on cookie sheet; bake for 10-15 minutes, or until edges brown.

Drizzle with honey to make them extra scrumptious! Enjoy!

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