Have you tried an energy ball yet? I love them so much! They are so full of….everything! They are nutritious, delicious, convenient, and the options as far as ingredients are basically endless. I may go as far as saying it is the perfect snack. I have been experimenting a lot with these lately, toying around with the idea of potentially setting up a cute little stand at the local farmers market and selling a few varieties of these little guys and a few other fun things. My latest creation was O-M-G good! The fact that you can even call these little guys ‘healthy’ seems to good to be true but they ARE! They are healthy, provide energy, so satisfying and so over the top yummy! Since cutting refined sugar from my diet and avoiding foods with added sugar I don’t appreciate sweet foods like I once did so my recipe here is a little on the not-so-sweet side. You can experiment by adding a little extra honey or even scaling back more than I did. It really is strange. the more you move away from the sweet stuff the more you can taste how overly sweet a LOT of the food is in our day to day diet. I can barely eat a cookie anymore or a brownie or any of the fun stuff I used to eat all the time! Anyway, I hope you enjoy these as much as I do :):

Baklava bites

Ingredients:

• 1 cup raw walnuts
• 1 cup dry roasted and salted pistachios
• 1 T cinnamon
• 2 T coconut oil
• 2 T raw honey
• 1 cup all natural peanut butter (homemade preferably)
• 1 t vanilla

Place all ingredients in a food processor. I used the ninja master prep but I think it would work better and faster in a legit food processor (which I also have but I’m lazy about cleaning it, ha!) Grab out a scoop around the size of a heaping tablespoon and roll it up to form a good little ball. You can go bigger or smaller according to what you are looking for. This size (about like a big gumball) will make about 10 balls give or take a few. At this point you can roll them in crushed pistachios or coconut flakes or something along those lines or you can leave them bare like I did. Once you have them in perfect little balls (they will be sticky unless you rolled them in something) place them in an airtight container and refrigerate until they harden up a bit. Voila! you have an energy ball! I would say these should store just fine in the fridge for about a week or if you need to keep at room temperature a few days should be fine. I dare say your kids may even like these too!