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These easy and super delish granola bars are made from whole ingredients and ready in under an hour!

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Yield: 8 Large or 12 Medium Granola Bars

Ingredients:

  • 1 cup mashed ripe bananas (about 2 large
  • 1/2 cup mango puree (I thawed one cup of frozen mango chunks and blended in a food processor)
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract 
  • 2 cups large flake oats
  • 1/3 cup chopped pecans
  • 1/3 cup chopped brazil nuts
  • 1/3 cup chopped walnuts
  • 1/3 cup shredded unsweetened coconut
  • 1/3 cup pumpkin seeds 
  • 1/4 cup hemp hearts
  • 1/3 cup dark chocolate chips
  • 1/3 cup chopped dried mango
  • 1/3 cup chopped dried pineapple
  • 1 tsp cinnamon

Directions:

  1. Preheat oven to 350 F and grease a baking pan with vegetable oil.
  2. Pulse oats in a food processor until coarsely chopped.
  3. In a large bowl, mix mashed banana and mango puree with vanilla. Add remaining ingredients and mix well.
  4. Press mixture evenly into greased pan and bake for 25 Mins or until golden brown.
  5. Allow to cool fully before cutting into 8 bars. Wrap individually with plastic wrap and store in the fridge or freezer. Enjoy!

Recipe and Photo By: Brittaney Berendsen RD, P.H.Ec.

Category: Snacks

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It’s true! 🙌🏼 Checking in with your body cues and tuning into the sensations your body sends you throughout the day means you are more likely to meet your nutritional needs✨. . When we rely solely on external or emotional cues to eating, it is more likely that we will overshoot our energy needs 📈. . Some of these external cues may include: . 🤳🏼Rigid eating routine. . 🤳🏼Strict food rules/guidelines. . 🤳🏼 Eating until your plate is clean, past fullness. . 🤳🏼Distracted eating. . Interestingly, when we are out of tune with our body’s signals for long enough (whether by relying on external cues, or being unprepared/reactive with food most of the time), our body turns DOWN the dial on our ability to detect these cues. This normalizes the act of moving through the act of eating on autopilot 🚉. . A good starting place for rediscovering your internal cues to eating is slowing down around mealtimes and setting a meal routine/schedule that provides you with regular and reliable opportunities to eat. Part of slowing down includes mindfulness and paying ATTENTION to your body’s cues 🧐. . 👉🏽👉🏽👉🏽SWIPE to revisit the different sensations through which hunger presents itself, and a handy scale to help you identify when you normally start and stop eating. . 👍🏼 A rule of thumb is to aim to stay within 3️⃣-7️⃣ on the scale to help you eat with more attention and listen closely for the onset of fullness cues *most of the time🤰🏾. . While Component #4 of eating well focused on differentiating physical/stomach hunger from emotional hunger, Component #5 challenges you to dig into the ebbs and flows of your physical hunger sensations 🌊. . ⁉️What body sensations stand out to you? When do these symptoms surface within your week? Share below 🤗👇🏼👇🏼
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