Single Serving Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe

Photo and recipe courtesy of No. 2 Pencil

A friend posted a link to this two-cookie recipe on FB, and I saved that link with the quickness. I haven't tried it yet, but I will as soon as I get some chocolate chips (that I would have if I hadn't eaten them one time there was no other chocolate in the house). Don't judge me, you don't know my struggle. :-)

Pumpkin Seeds

I discovered a couple of months ago that I absolutely love roasted/toasted pumpkin seeds (pepitas). Believe it or not, I'd never eaten them until then. 49 years, and I'd never eaten pumpkin seeds. Crazy. I pretty much eat them every evening now. 

In my quest to make healthier food choices, I added pumpkin seeds to my diet because they kept showing up on lists of foods everyone should eat. When I first started eating them, I was mixing them with a little olive oil and adding sea salt, then toasting them in the toaster oven. Now I toast them on the stovetop.

Pumpkin seeds are a low GI food and are a source of manganese, phosphorus, copper, magnesium, zinc, protein, and iron. A 1/4 cup has about 180 calories. Do you eat pumpkin seeds?

I Ate It

Steak (grilled)

Portobello Mushrooms Sauteed w/Coconut Oil

 Onions Sauteed w/Coconut Oil

Quinoa - Black Beans (canned/rinsed) - Corn (frozen)

Quinoa

Here, I mixed the quinoa with black beans and rice. The quinoa are the little round semi-transparent seed-things. 

I've battled my weight for years - basically since I had my daughter almost 20 years ago. I found out about 2 years ago from an extensive blood test that my body doesn't process carbohydrates well, so my doctor recommended that I limit them. I'm doing ok with it, as long as I can resist the cookies and candy the mister brings into the house. :-(

My goal is to cut out as much processed food as I can, as well as limit my intake of added sugars. I'm eating lots of fruits and veggies, complex carbohydrates, meats, seeds, nuts, eggs, legumes, lentils, etc. I've eaten things this year that I've never eaten, let alone cooked, before.

Quinoa is one of those things. Please don't do like I did and go into the grocery store asking where the "qwi-no-ah" is, as that is not how it's pronounced. For the record, and to spare you the embarrassment, it is pronounced "keen-wah." I'll forever be grateful to the random lady in the commissary who didn't bat an eye when she said "the the keen-wah is generally on the aisle with the health or ethnic foods." She was probably dying on the inside.