Marci Baun

My daughter is a picky eater, but she loves pancakes. Like any mom with a picky eater, I am constantly looking for ways to incorporate healthy into what she likes to eat, and not just little bits of things, although I suppose that is a little better than none. She recently decided she likes avocado/guacamole and turkey, cheese, and guacamole sandwiches. Her palate is expanding, which is a good thing. Still, I want to ensure she gets more…even if I have to trick her.

My healthy pancake recipe:

• 1/4 c. organic blanched almond meal (or regular, but blanched is sweeter and lighter texture)
• 1/4 c. organic flax seed meal mixed with chia seed meal (you can buy whole seeds and grind both together)
• 3/4 c. organic flour
• 1 egg
• 1 c. raw milk (you can replace this with coconut/almond/soy milk)
• 2 TBSP raw honey
• 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 1 TBSP coconut oil
• 1 tsp vanilla

Mix dry material in a bowl. Mix egg, milk, and vanilla together. Combine dry mix with egg mixture and add the rest of the ingredients. Stir until mixed well. Ladle out onto preheated griddle. Pour warmed pure maple syrup over buttered pancakes and serve.

Makes: 15-20 small, but filling, pancakes (I can only eat about 3-4  sand dollar size pancakes.)

Some of you may remember that in the 80s-90s coconut oil was considered bad. Well, like so many things of that era, they were wrong. (Other things that were wrong from that era: mullets, leggings — which are making a comeback — Noooo! — big hair — AAAAAAA! — to name a few.)

The efficacy of coconut oil includes, but is not limited to:

1. lowering cholesterol
2. skin
3. digestion
4. heart disease

For more information on coconut oil, you can read about it here.

By the way, I have found that if I make funky-shaped pancakes and let my daughter decide what the shapes are, she loves it. Oh, and she enjoys helping me make them. (Another way to teach math. )

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