Well, it's Monday. After a midweek holiday, and a nice weekend, we are back at work for a full week.
We are still truckin' through our Whole30 challenges over here, so we thought we'd share a nice Whole30 "sweet" treat with you. Now yes, we know sweets aren't "allowed" on the Whole30 challenge. But, I guess you can say this isn't really a treat -- it's a fully functional, Whole30 approved, healthy snack option (that also happens to be REALLY delicious to eat!)
Yesterday, while erranding, prepping our weekly meals, and working on various projects in between, we got REALLY hungry for a snack. There was a bag of macadamias laying out on the counter...but then an idea came to Lina -- Macadamia Nut butter! Though macadamia butter is great, it often means eating a lot more than you would if they were in solid form. So how were we going to be able to enjoy ample amounts of macadamia nut butter with our celery?!
The answer was simple -- dilute it! So we added coconut flakes and apple sauce! We created a delicious spread with lots of healthy fats and we added apple sauce for volume and a little extra sweetness. Now, even though this treat tastes very much like Buttercream frosting, it actually has very little sugar, and it's SUPER satisfying.
Ingredients
- 2 cups Macadamia Nuts (we used dry roasted, raw are great too)
- 1 cup Unsweetened Coconut Flakes
- 3/4 cup Unsweetened Apple Sauce
- 1 tsp Vanilla Extract
Directions
1) Blend all ingredients in a food processor. You can either add each ingredient in one at a time, or just throw in the whole kit and caboodle
2) Process until you get a nice creamy consistency
3) Eat off a spoon, put on celery, or top onto whatever other Paleo goodies you've got!
Our Celery and Coconut Macadamia Creamy Spread Snack:
If you try this out let us know what you think! Also, if you come up with some creative ways to use this spread, feel free to share! We just discovered it and we still have A LOT sitting the fridge begging to be eaten.
Happy Monday!
~Scott & Lina
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