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Healthy Banana and Chocolate Shake

Categories: All Recipes/ Breakfast/ Healthy Food/ Juice and Drinks/ Snacks

Recipe for Nordic Healthy Banana and Chocolate Shake

Homemade Healthy Banana and Chocolate Shake

This recipe for a healthy banana and chocolate shake is the reason that you should always have a few bananas in your freezer. When we have some bananas that are starting to get a little soft and brown at the edges, we never throw them out like most people would do. [Read more...]

Healthy Banana Pancakes

Categories: Breakfast/ Desserts/ Healthy Food

Healthy and easy homemade banana pancakes
These little banana pancakes are made entirely without sugar, but they are still so fantastic and sweet because of the bananas. They are a perfectly healthy alternate to normal breakfast pancakes. You can serve them with some fresh fruit and a maybe some healthy Skyr on top of the pancakes. Skyr is an Icelandic cultured dairy product, similar to strained yogurt. It is very healthy, full of protein and has a thick consistency. They are great at the breakfast table, but also for a snack in the middle of the day. You can even use frozen bananas for this recipe – that is really easy! [Read more...]

Banana Ice Cream

Categories: Desserts/ Healthy Food/ Ice Cream

Recipe for healthy banana ice cream

Sometimes we are just craving for something delicious dessert but we don't want all the sugar and empty calories. This is a recipe for a delicious banana ice cream which is a really great alternative to regular ice cream. This banana ice cream does not contain any sugar or heavy cream - it only contain one ingredient; bananas. The ice cream has a nice and creamy consistency which is similar to sorbet ice cream. If you prefer the consistency of regular ice cream you simply just refreeze it after you have made it. Will like to serve this ice cream will some chopped dark chocolate as topping. [Read more...]

Healthy Banana-Oat Cookies

Categories: Fast and Easy Food/ Healthy Food/ Snacks

Recipe for Homemade Healthy Banana-oat Cookies

I want to share one of my absolutely favorite recipes. This recipe for banana-oat cookies is super easy to make and you only need those two ingredients; banana and oats. These cookies, if you can call them that, literally only takes 20 minutes to make. The great thing about them is that they are very healthy and filling so it is great snack in between the main meals. Each cookie has less than 100 calories so you can, with no problems, grab a couple of them. [Read more...]

Healthy Banana, Oatmeal and Chocolate Cookies

Categories: Cake/ Desserts/ Fast and Easy Food/ Healthy Food/ Snacks/ Vegetarian

Recipe for Homemade Healthy Banana, Oatmeal and Chocolate Cookies

This is a recipe for some small and healthy chocolate cookies based on banana and oatmeal. Actually, we are not sure that cookie is the right word for these cakes. They do look like small cookies but they have a slight different consistency. The banana makes these cookies soft but still a bit chewy. Instead of using sugar, these cookies are sweetened by banana which makes them a healthy alternative to regular cookies. They also doesn't contain any oil or butter - we personally think [Read more...]

How To: Bag and Save Ripe Bananas

Categories: Kitchen guides

Guide How To: Bag and Save Ripe Bananas

This simple how to guide describes how you can easily bag and freeze your overripe bananas, and what you can later use them for. Using this guide you never have to throw out bad bananas anymore. Ripe bananas are really great fruits and it's properly one of the most popular in the world.

For many families this fruit is a common fruit to have in their fruit baskets. However, one of the downsides of a banana is that it has a relatively short expiration date. If you leave them in the fruit basket for too long, the peel will turn brown and the bananas start to get soft - and eventually they will turn bad. When this happens many people don't think the bananas are delicious anymore and they will throw them out. We think this is kind of sad - first, it's important that we use as much as the food we have available and by that save the worlds resources, and secondly overripe bananas can be used in many recipes and turned into delicious food.

If you follow this guide you will never have to throw out bananas which have gone bad. The guide is very easy - you simply just peel the overripe bananas, bag them and store them in the freezer. A frozen banana can be stored way longer and it can be used in so many different recipes. We can recommend to take a look at our recipes where bananas are an ingredient - in many of the recipes you can use frozen bananas.

Top-3 Banana Recipes:

This is our top-3 recipes where you can use overripe and frozen bananas:
-1- Banana cake with chocolate
-2- Healthy banana pancakes
-3- Banana and chocolate shake


How To: Bag and Save Ripe Bananas

You'll Need:
1. Ripe bananas
2. Plastic bags
3. Knife
4. Chopping board

Directions:
Step 1: Peel the bananas. You can with advantage use a knife if the bananas are a bit soft.
Step 2: Use a knife to cut the bananas in smaller pieces.
Step 3: Bag the banana pieces and put them in the freezer. Remember to write the date on the plastic bag so that you always uses the oldest bananas first.



Guide How To: Bag and Save Ripe Bananas

Guide How To: Bag and Save Ripe Bananas

Guide How To: Bag and Save Ripe Bananas

Guide How To: Bag and Save Ripe Bananas

Guide How To: Bag and Save Ripe Bananas

Fruit Salad with Vanilla Cream and Chocolate

Categories: Desserts

Recipe for Homemade Fruit Salad with Vanilla Cream and Chocolate

When it comes to dessert we normally like to make some kind of cake or some homemade ice cream. However, when we want to make something special we make a fruit salad with all kinds of different fruit, the more the better. This recipe for a simple fruit salad with vanilla cream and chocolate pieces is one of our all-time favorites. It is easy to make and super delicious! We have never met anybody who does not like it. Because it is possible to clean and cut out some of the fruit, and store it in the fridge for some time, it is very convenient when you are having guests - in this case we are always busy with all kinds of different work, then it is nice to be able to prepare the dessert in due time. [Read more...]