Protein Overnight Oats with Pazazz

Happy 2021! New year, new healthy habits, and new recipes! I have a super easy and delicious recipe for you to start your day off with.

Protein and Pazazz! See what I did there? 😉 Y’all know my love for the “Jolly Rancher” of apples, the Pazazz apple, so I have once again teamed up with Honeybear brands to bring you a new and delicious way to eat your apple a day 🍎

February is National Cancer Awareness Month and Pazazz apples have teamed up with the American Institute for Cancer Research. Pazazz will donate $1 to the AICR to further fight against the disease. They are making is super easy to donate!

1.) Follow this LINK to donate online. Pazazz is donating $1 for every COMPLETED challenge on the Shareity app!

2.) Text PAZ to 797979 to donate $1

3.) OR follow my personal LINK so I can track our donating progress!

Recipe As Follows:

I have been using a protein drink in a lot of my new meals and coffee to help me reach my recommended daily amount and of course by using an entire apple, you are also adding in fiber, probiotics, and several other health benefits.

Ingredients:

1 Pazazz apple, diced

1/4 cup oats

3/4 cup Cinnamon Roll Premier Protein drink (any brand will work or flavor)

1 tsp pure maple syrup (can leave out)

dash of cinnamon

Directions:

1.) Add all ingredients to a mason jar or container with a lid. If you like the apples more of a soft consistency, add the diced apples to a microwaveable bowl and spray with spray butter. Heat for 2 minuted covered with saran wrap until soft. Add to the jar and place in fridge overnight.

2.) I don’t love them cold, so I heat in microwave for 45 seconds to 1 minute before eating.

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I love teaming up with Honeybear Brand Apples to bring you guys some fun facts and recipes! Did you know that for a limited time the apples will have 4 different emoji stickers on them? I love this idea as a way to spread more JOY!

Do you struggle with getting your kids to eat fruit? Check out my recipe below! Also save the stickers as they eat the apple and create a chart to show them how many apples they have eaten in a week or even a month!

Do you already write little notes in your child’s lunchbox? Add an emoji apple next time! I love the hangry one because I can totally relate 😬

So I have a fun challenge for you! If you are at your grocery store and you spot the apples with the emoji stickers (Gala or Honeycrisp variety) grab them, find your emotion, and snap a selfie with it and tag @hyvee and ME @ladyandredstyle so I can share them on my Instagram stories too! Let’s spread some cheer and fun around social media!

You can find the apples if you are local to Des Moines at your nearest HyVee grocery stores. For more information on the Honeybear brands, you can check out their website HERE and make sure to follow them on Facebook and Instagram too!

RECIPE: Airfryer AppleCinna Bites

1 Gala or Honeycrisp apple

1 tube of cinnamon rolls

DIRECTIONS:

1.) Cut each cinnamon roll into 4 long pieces. I typically only make 2-3 rolls at a time and keep the rest in the fridge for another day!

2.) Slice an apple into thin slices.

3.) Roll the sliced cinnamon roll piece thin enough to wrap around an apple slice. Continue to do this until you have your desired snack amount. I typically make 2 cinnamon rolls at a time for breakfast or a fun snack.

4.) Airfry the pieces at 325-350 degrees for 5-7 minutes or until golden brown.

5.) Heat icing from cinnamon roll tube up in microwave for 10 seconds and drizzle small amount onto the warm apple slices. Serve and enjoy!

*This is a sponsored post. All thoughts and images are my own.

Low Sugar Fruit Crisp

This baking thing is fun when you nail the perfect recipe the first time you make it 🙌 I had several people try this in my family before I shared it with all of you because well, they are family and they won’t lie if it tastes like crap 😂

I love fruit crisps but the sugar content is outrageous! I came up with this recipe that is both low in sugar and more healthy than the alternative recipes. I think you can swap out the fruits for whatever you have, but keep in mind, the less sweet your fruit is, the less sweet your dish will be. That is why I chose the 2 fruits that I did 😉

INGREDIENTS:

Fruit:

1 cup of Ranier Cherries- sliced and seed removed

1.5 cups of strawberries- sliced

2 Tbsp pure maple syrup

1 tsp vanilla

Crisp:

1 Tbsp salted butter

1/3 cup cashews (can use walnuts or another nut too)

1/2 cup almond flour

1/2 cup oats

1/8 tsp salt

1 Tbsp brown sugar

STEPS:

1.) Cut up your fruit and toss into a bowl with the syrup and vanilla. Spread in a 8X8 greased baking dish.

2.) Rough chop your cashews or I pulsed mine in a blender.

3.) Add your dry ingredients together in a bowl then fork in the cold butter to make a crisp. Sprinkle the mixture over the fruit and cover with foil.

4.) Bake your crisp at 350 degrees for 30-40 minutes or until bubbling. Then remove the foil and broil on high for 2-5 minutes or until your topping is golden brown.

Serve warm! Enjoy!

Flourless Peanut Butter & Banana Muffins

Who said healthy eating can’t be delicious? I am stopping all of the diets and fads and just going back to the basics. Eating healthy, drinking water, and exercising. I honestly have never felt better. I got rid of the bloat (except when aunt flow comes 🤨) rid of the headaches, rid of the mid day slump of feeling like I need a nap, and definitely more regular in my bathroom breaks!

This all kind of stemmed from a visit with my Dad when he was eating everything fresh and here I was trying to eat my thousandth hamburger without the bun 🤢 Definitely over it.

I love carbs and I really love breakfast carbs, like donuts and cinnamon rolls, but those are so bad for you if you consume them on a regular basis. I was playing around with a few recipes and came up with this one that I absolutely love! I hope you love it too and please tag me in your posts so I can see your finished products! Also let me know if you change anything in the recipe!!

Ingredients:

1 ripe banana- mashed

1/4 cup peanut butter- I used Simply Jif

1/4 cup pure maple syrup

1/2 tsp vanilla

1 egg

1/4 cup Original Almond Milk

1 1/4 cup oats

1/2 tsp cinnamon

1/2 tsp baking powder

1/4 tsp baking soda

1/8 tsp salt

few semi sweet mini chocolate chips for garnish

Steps:

1.) Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

2.) Spray muffin tin with non-stick spray. I used coconut/avocado oil spray from Aldi

3.) I used my bullet mixer but you can use a blender to add all wet ingredients to blender and blend until smooth.

4.) Add dry ingredients into the blender and blend until smooth, except for the chocolate chips. Fold those into batter last before pouring into muffin tin or use them as garnish.

5.) Pour batter into greased muffin tin. Bake for 11-15 minutes or until golden brown. (Mine are square because I used a brownie pan)

Serve warm with butter! Enjoy!