Multigrain Waffles

[Jones]

Make your own wafflles with added protein powder. Then you can use Nutella, it would be worth it.

[Veronica]

yeah but nutella ... that's made of hazelnuts... and that's protein...

eat them with an egg, sunny side up. Or with jam.

Only 2 grams of protein in Nutella. Peanut butter has 8. Nutella - 20 carbs, pb 5 carbs. Nuella wins the fats with 11. PB has 16.

Jam - pure sugar.

I'd rather save my sugars for gelato.

Veronica

[Veronica]

Make your own wafflles with added protein powder. Then you can use Nutella, it would be worth it.

I'm trying to avoid using protein powder. I want to be able to eat healthy with real food. It's my little weirdness.

Veronica

[papaver]

Yes but jam (if you make it yourself) is healthy. Pure sugar or not.

[Veronica]

How do you figure jam is healthy? Just curious... It seems to me it has a lot of simple sugars. Any vitamins it might contain, can be gotten from other sources with less sugar.

Veronica

[papaver]

Well, I make jam. I use fruit that I grow myself (or my parents). I don't add sugar (only when it's too sour).

It's a good way to have fruit (jam) when most of the fruit is out of season. Yes, you can have strawberry's and such all year round but they come from the other side of the world... and that's not healthy, not for me nor for the environment.
To me in wintertime it's a good and cheap alternative. In the summer I even eat a fruit sandwich.

[GLC1968]

My jam is delicious, preservative free, organic...but it's still mostly sugar.

V - I've got a recipe for waffles that are 40/40/20 (carb/prot/fat) if you are interested. It's made with the Bob's Red Mill 10-grain mix and no protein powder (all real food). They are so good that even my husband eats them happily!

[Veronica]

I'd love the recipe for the waffles. I like the idea of making a bunch on the weekend and freezing them. I do have a waffle maker.

I'm going to have to compare the sugar in maple syrup with the sugar in fruit only jam. I put a tbs of syrup on my waffles - 9 grams.

Yeah, I've become a sugar snob. But hey, I've lost 3% body fat since I started looking at it more carefully 5 weeks ago.

Veronica

[jobob]

Geeze, I had to get out of the house, and away from the Nutella jar that was singing its siren song.

So I went out for a 45 minute leisurely walk, the most activity I've done since the end of last month. My back felt a little bit uncomfortable when I got back home, but not bad, and it felt just fine again after a 5 minute laydown. So you guys are a good influence, sort of.

Now if the Nutella jar would just shut the heck up...

[Blueberry]

V - I don't think anyone can argue with the results you're getting - You've put in a LOT of hard work

[Veronica]

Just for the record jam and syrup both have the same carbs per tbs.

Veronica

[papaver]

I'd love the recipe for the waffles. I like the idea of making a bunch on the weekend and freezing them. I do have a waffle maker.

I'm going to have to compare the sugar in maple syrup with the sugar in fruit only jam. I put a tbs of syrup on my waffles - 9 grams.

Yeah, I've become a sugar snob. But hey, I've lost 3% body fat since I started looking at it more carefully 5 weeks ago.

Veronica

Lost nearly 30 kilos last year and I ate my jam every day. It's all about finding the right balance that works for you. keep up the good work!

[GLC1968]

Cat's Healthy Waffles

Ingredients:
8 egg whites (or 2 whole eggs and 4 whites if you hate throwing away yolks like I do) If you buy containers of egg whites - use 1 cup of whites.
1 cup cottage cheese (ff works, but I usually use 1%)
1 cup Bob’s Red Mill 10-grain waffle and pancake mix
2 tsp vanilla extract
4 tsp of Splenda (optional)

Directions:
Blend egg whites, cottage cheese and vanilla in a blender until smooth.
Mix waffle mix and Splenda (if using it) in a bowl.
Pour wet into dry and mix until all wet.

Cook in waffle maker until done - spraying lightly with PAM between each batch. These take a little longer than regular waffles to cook.

Enjoy w/ sugar free syrup, honey, fresh berries, yogurt, cinnamon & sugar, PB or whatever your heart desires! This recipe serves 4.

To store: let cool completely on a wire rack and then freeze in air-tight container (Tupperware, Ziploc bag, etc). Toast lightly to reheat/recrisp.


You can totally make these without the Splenda. I've not tried them using real sugar, but that would probably work too. With the Splenda, they are mildly sweet and good hot out of the waffle iron (without syrup!).

[Veronica]

Lost nearly 30 kilos last year and I ate my jam every day. It's all about finding the right balance that works for you.

Ain't that the truth.

Veronica

[papaver]

I have another recipe that's quite similar. But I find it difficult to translate it to English. You know what, I'll make the recipe this weekend and take pics of every step I make.