We are putting the final touches on our newest eBook, 227 Healthy Snacks! See, lookie…
UPDATE!! The book is here – we are so excited! Come check out 227 Healthy Snacks. :) Also our winning recipe is Honey Peanut Bars. Be sure to check it out!
This is most exciting because who of us doesn’t need a resource full of healthy snack ideas and easy recipes?! We all need this. Or is your family among the “perfectly satisfied between meals” sort? I do not even get this. I feed my family huge meals, and we still need snacks. I need them too. It helps me not pass out between lunch and dinner, plus snacks enable me to finish sentences, which I find to be quite beneficial in my line of work.
During the past 14 months, I have been testing out new recipe ideas, brainstorming new snack options, and becoming very creative in the kitchen. The results are exciting! At a quick glance, we’ll all have almost 60 pages worth of snack ideas to draw from. The book includes links to healthy snack recipes on my website for easy access, and best of all – 78 new, easy, real food recipes!!!
I can not wait to share these with you!! Many have become our newest snacking staples, and shucks – I’ve even started using some of them for quick breakfasts or lunches.
My hunky editor (chill out everyone, I’m talking about my husband) is almost finished fine-tooth-combing the final draft. Soon we’ll have the file saved an uploaded into our shop. In the meantime, I thought it would be fun to give you just a little peek into what a few of these new recipes look like.
That’s right. We’re only showing you a picture. It’s almost cruel. After you look through them, leave a comment, giving your vote as to which recipe you would like me to share here. The winning choice will be revealed on Friday, along with the recipe, free for the taking! Soon after, the entire book full of 227 Healthy Snack Ideas and Recipes will be ready to go (at a fun discount, no less).
So are you ready? These are just some of our family’s favorites as I experimented my way through new snacking ideas!
1. Asparagus Fries
I figured, what better way to get my family to eat asparagus than to fry it? This turned out to be a very, very good idea.
2. Pizza Muffin Bites
Wow, the flavor in these is rockin’ – like eating a little bite of pizza without all the effort it takes to make a pizza. Plus, these are perfect to take on the road.
3. Pecan Pie Bars
These taste like heaven on a plate. The whole family agrees.
4. Quick Snickerdoodle Bites
We loved these so much, declaring them to be a favorite of all our favorites – if in fact you can declare such a thing.
5. Strawberry Brownies
There are strawberries blended up in these brownies, giving these extra nourishment and the best flavor you can imagine. It’s like eating a chocolate covered strawberry!
6. Chocolate Raspberry Bars
These were a very pleasant surprise! The chocolate and raspberry together created a fantastic flavor combination.
7. Blueberry Cream Cheese Bars
These are moist, lightly sweetened, and perfectly decadent with the cream cheese/blueberry combination.
8. Honey Peanut Bars
It’s like a homemade Payday candy bar, only with no corn syrup, way less sugar, and much better tasting. These are Matt’s favorite of the favorites. SO good.
9. Oyster Cracker Bites
I’ve been wanting to come up with a healthy oyster cracker recipe for years. I finally figured it out! Buttery, crispy, and easy too.
Alrighty, that’s just a tiny peek into what the new eBook holds. Are you ready to make your vote? Leave a comment telling me what recipe you want to see first, then the recipe receiving the most votes will be revealed on Friday so you can start snacking right away. Watch for the new book early next week. :)
Thanks for joining our fun! Let’s hear it for your top pick!
I’d love to know how to make pizza muffin bites!
I’d love to see the oyster cracker recipe! I’ve tried some homemade oyster cracker recipes, but they just don’t turn out quite right.
Pizza muffin bites for my very picky eater!
I’m all in for the chocolate raspberry bars! YUMMY
Honey Peanut bars!
Snicker doodle bites!
Blueberry Cream Cheese Bars – most definitely!
They *all* look delicious and it’s hard to choose, but I think I have to go with the Honey Peanut Bars!
I can’t decide! I’m going to say the Pizza Bites. My kids LOVE pizza!!!
Crackers!!!!
Oooooh, all of them! But if we can only have one, it has to be Honey Peanut Bars!
Snicker Doodle bars!
I vote for the Honey Peanut Bars. Thanks!
Honey Peanut Bars! PLEASE!!!
Blueberry Cream Cheese Bars!
Honey peanut bars!!!!!
Oyster Cracker Bites!
I vote pizza muffin bites!
I’m a fan of strawberries and chocolate, so I’d like to see the strawberry brownies, please.
The Blueberry- Cream Cheese bars, please. The rest of the pictures look delicious, too.
Honey peanut bars
Oyster crackers bites, pls!
Honey Peanut bars Yummy
Asparagus fries! I need something that is definitely NOT sweet, not nutty (like me), and not grainy (like my pictures!)….. something more exotic. How do I make asparagus fries and not asparagus mush?
Thanks!
Honey peanut bars please. :)
Honey Peanut Bars, please!
Chocolate Raspberry Bars please! Those look AWESOME! I love chocolate and raspberry!
Honey Peanut Bars!
healthy oyster crackers- yum!
Blueberry cream cheese bars sound delicious!!!!
Honey Peanut Bars!
I vote for the pizza muffin bites.
Honey Peanut Bars!
Pizza Muffin Bites!
Aspargus fries please!
Cracker Bites!
Honey peanut bars! Yum!
The Honey Peanut Bars!!
I’m pretty sure that teasing just isn’t kind. ;-) They all look delicious! Can’t wait for this new book to come out! I want to make them all! lol
I’m all about fried Asparagus!
My vote is for Pizza Muffin Bites. I think my kids would love them!
Honey Peanut Bars
Pizza Muffin Bites!
combination of my 2 favorite foods…chocolate and strawberries. My vote is for the strawberry brownies
Oyster cracker bites, please!!
Pizza Muffin Bites!
They all look delicious! I’m going to be outvoted after seeing some of the replies, but I’m going to throw it out there anyway. Asparagus fries. Long live asparagus fries! :)
Snickerdoodle!!
Honey peanut bars pretty please! :)
Asparagus Fries!! They all look great, but the asparagus fries look like a great way to get more veggies in my kids! Soooo yummy looking!
Oyster crackers get my vote!
I vote for the honey peanut bars – they look so unique and who doesn’t love a good homemade version of a store bought item??
Snickerdoodle bars! I made your applesauce bread yesterday (with just a 1/4 cup of honey for sweetener) and it was a huge hit with the whole family :)
Pizza Muffin Bites, Pleeeeeeze!
Oyster crackers
Oyster cracker bites!!!
Pizza muffins! I’m always looking for a pizza recipe where I can easily leave out the dairy for my two kids who are dairy free.
Pizza muffins ????
Wow, they all look and sound delicious! My vote is pizza muffins. Have a joy filled day everyone!
Blueberry cream cheese bars, please.
Pizza muffins!! Yum :-)
Honey Peanut Bars, please!
Asparagus fries!
Definitely the pizza muffins. Hungry teenagers to feed here.
Pizza muffin bites (:
#6 Chocolate Raspberry Bars!!!! Love the combo of chocolate and raspberry!
I’m choosing an option that appears to be gluten-free, since we are right now. :-) So I’m going with honey peanut bars. They all look delicious, though.
Pizza muffin bites! (But everything looks wonderful!)
I would love a healthy oyster cracker! That’s my vote!
I say snicker doodle bars. You got me with “quick”! I’m shocked how many votes you got for pizza muffins…..but I’m not big into savory things that disguise as sweet treats. Mean trick! ;-)
Oyster crackers!
Will you have a print version available like the Oh For Real book?!? LOVE that book…use it many times a week!
Pizza muffin bites
Strawberry brownies… taste like a chocolate covered strawberry? MUST taste these!!! :)
Strawberry brownies, please!
Pizza muffin bites, please!! I need something to take in the car for a snack between school and dance intensives. It would be great to have one that did not drip, melt, stick, or require refrigeration or heating!
Honey Peanut Bars, Please!!!
Strawberry Brownies please :)
Chocolate raspberry bars.
You sure make it tough, though.
Pizza muffin bites!! Wow this looks fantastic!
My vote would be the oyster cracker bites. It’s hard to choose though!
Pecan pie bars.please
Oyster crackers! What timing! Just an hour ago as I was eating leftover chili for lunch, I said to myself I NEED to find a recipe for healthy saltines/oyster crackers!
Strawberry Brownies!
Oyster crackers!
Quick snickerdoodle bites.
I love blueberries so I choose the blueberry cream cheese bars!!!
Oyster crackers!
honey peanut bars!
They all look great, but I’ve been searching for a good cracker recipe, so oyster crackers get my vote! Although I’d be happy to see the honey peanut bars or snickerdoodle bites win, too! :)
Pizza Muffin Bites! Of course they all do look Wonderful!!
Honey Peanut Bars please ????
Pizza Muffins! My second choice would be fried asparagus :).
Oyster Crackers or Honey Peanut Bars, please.
Pizza muffin bites, please!
They all look so good, but I vote for Honey Peanut Bars!
The picture looks like the bars we have been buying (and really like).
And I had planned on emailing you sometime and asking if you could come up with a recipe to replace these. They are delicious and have good ingredients, but are expensive at over $5 for box of 6 bars. Honey Bar, Sweet & Salty (brand is Mariani). Ingredients: Peanuts, Honey, Peanut Butter, Almonds, Almond Butter, Crisp Brown Rice, Salt.
Looking forward to the ebook -thank you Laura!
Those very bars are the ones that made me determined to come up with a knock-off!
Pizza bites but I would love to see any of the recipes. Yum! Can’t wait for the ebook.
Really difficult choice, it all sounds good, but I will go with the pizza muffins. My girls would love those!
Pizza Muffins please! (And because our city now does run off elections, I’ll give my second choice too – oyster crackers)
Pizza muffin bites. They look delish! Actually everything looks delish but I wanted to eat those off the page.
I would love to see the Honey Peanut bar. My second request would be the Chocolate Raspberry bars, then the snickerdoodles. These all sound good. Thanks for all you do.
Asparagus! Yum!
Oyster crackers!
Oyster crackers please!
Ditto on the oyster crackers! I havn’t eaten those things in years and boy do I miss them.
ASPARAGUS FRIES, did somebody say asparagus fries??????????
Chocolate raspberry bars look delicious !
Love to see this one too!
Oh my! How do I choose? Guess I’m going to have to get the book! My vote is for…Asparagus fries!!!
I would love to see the strawberry brownie recipe! Or the asparagus fries. I’m not a huge fan so maybe trying this would help.
Chocolate raspberry bars look wonderful!
#8- the peanut honey bars!
This was such a tough decision! I will for sure be buying your new book- can hardly wait :)
Blueberry cream cheese bars!
Honey Peanut Bars please!!
Honey Peanut Bars has my vote……
Oyster Cracker!
Peanut honey bars!!
Honey Peanut Bars please! I can’t wait to be able to purchase this book!
Snicker doodles, please!
Honey Bars please…
Pizza bites or the snickerdoodles. Too hard to choose.
Oh man those diy Payday bars look soooo good!
Asparagus fries, please!
Snicker doodle quick bites or pecan pie bars
Snickerdoodles!!!!!
I would so go for the pizza bites! Mmmm!
Snickerdoodles please!!
It all looks great but I am really interested in the Oyster Crackers.
Oyster crackers or pizza bites. They both look amazing.
Honey peanut bars! Everything looks delish tho!
Honey peanut bars, please! But they all look so good I think I’ll need to get the book. : )
I’ve become a savory snacker–I would love to see the recipe for the pizza muffin bites!
YUM to them all! Pizza muffin Bites get my vote, though. Thank you for asking. :-)
Honey Peanut Bars all the way!!
Honey Peanut bars! How do you come up with all these? Yum!
Chocolate raspberry bars :)
Definitely paydays! YUM!
The honey peanut bars, please.
Strawberry brownies!!
They all look so good I can’t choose so I’ll take whatever you give! Thank-You for your thoughtfulness!
Honey peanut bars, please! YUM!
The cover of your book is just darling. Congrats!
Oyster cracker or pizza muffins. I have a hard time figuring out savory snacks. Sweets, I can do.
Oyster crackers please!
Chocolate raspberry bars, please. :-)
I vote OYSTER CRACKERS! I’m not sure I’ve ever tasted any, but my 8yo daughter likes them so much that she asked my mother to give her some for Christmas. (She also requested and received a loaf of white bread…she’s a bit of a real-food challenge.) I would love to make a healthy version of them for her! And thanks, Laura, for coming up with so many delicious recipes!
Honey Peanut Bars!
Pizza Bites!!
Quick Snickerdoodle Bites get my vote. :)
Blueberry cheesecake !
Oyster crackers gets my vote.
Snickerdoodles, please.
#7 blueberry cheesecake
honey peanut bars!
Blueberry Cream Cheese Bars :)
Pizza bites, please!
Honey peanut bars!
Oh my they all look so good but I will choose Strawberry Brownies
Oh my! Definitely the pizza bites! YUM!
My children said the Chocolate Raspberry Bars looked best!
Oyster crackers please!
Pizza bites!!
Quick snickerdoodle bites! My kids would love those:) yeah for all of them though:):)
Pizza Muffin Bites! and right after that comes the Asparagus Fries.
Pizza Bites!
Pizza Muffin Bites
Blueberry Cream Cheese Bars, Please!!!
They look delicious and I would love to have one to go with my coffee right now!
They all look great, but either the honey peanut bars or the pecan pie bars get the most cheers here.
Honey peanut bars or oyster crackers, please! Btw, they all look delicious.
Honey peanut bars!! :)
Blueberry Cream Cheese Bars!
Raspberry chocolate bars sound amazing!
If I had to narrow it, Chocolate Raspberry Bars. The Peanut Butter Bars and asparagus look great too…Okay they ALL look great. ;)
#4! Quick Snickerdoodle bites :)
Blueberry Cream Cheese bars.
Oyster cracker bites
Oooh you did not make this easy!!! I’m going to have to vote for the pizza muffin bites.
Though the blueberry cream cheese bars, snicker doodle bites, and strawberry brownies look and sound awesome as well!
Blueberry cream cheese bars! Oh my, Just had a snack attack looking at these pictures!
These all look delicious!! But I really want the Honey Peanut Bars! My mother-in-law can’t have any sugar but she can have honey. I’m always on the loom out for recipes I can tweak so she can enjoy them too!
Pizza muffin bites please and thank you!
It’s so hard to pick one but, if I must choose, I’ll go with blueberry cream cheese bars.
Yes… The answer is yes… to all of them… Why do we have to make a choice?! They all look fantastic! The pecan pie bars? Yes! But chocolate is so yummy…
Pecan pie bar…
My oh my do they all look delicious, including the asparagus. I would say honey peanut bars, but they all look amazing. I do believe I see a new cookbook purchase in my very near future.
They all look fantastic, but if I have to choose it would be the raspberry chocolate bars. Yumm.
I don’t like asparagus so anything done to make them look good and taste good (especially if they don’t end up slimy which these look like they are not!!)–will be a winner, especially since my family likes asparagus. The pecan bars take a close second.
Easiest and yummiest way to make asparagus hands down is to roast it. Rinse spears, snap ends. Then place on a pan. Toss with olive oil, kosher salt and pepper. grate parmasean cheese over the top. Roast in a 450 degree oven for 10-15 minutes. Serve immediately. After being forced to eat mushy asperagus as a child, I learned to LOVE it roasted and my husband and kids do too. Also, if you are lucky enough to live where asperagus is grown(spring and early summer by us), local seasonal asperagus tastes better :)
Thank you Kristin for the tips on roasted asparagus. Will have to give this a try the next time I see asparagus in the stores. My family (in advance) thanks you!
Pizza muffins
Yes. To all of them. But to choose one, would have to be the quick snickerdoodle bites. Then Honey Peanut bars. Then oyster crackers. Yum. My tummy is rumbling, I think I need to go make some lunch…