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Easy and Healthy Oatmeal Cookies

March 15th, 2015 at 10:06 pm

I've been on a bit of a roll here today (and last Sunday too I guess.)

So far today I made the pancakes this morning, finally opened up my crockpot and started a sweet potato in it for dinner, finally opened up my rice steamer pot and put in some fresh asparagus to steam later, cut up a zucchini into thin slices and baked for ten minutes (didn't burn it!)

Then just a little bit ago I made these pretty good cookies!

You only need three ingredients:
1 cup rolled oats
1 ripe banana (the riper the better)
1/2 cup raisins or other dried fruit

Put all the ingredients in a bowl and mash the banana with your hands. This will take a few minutes to get everything mushed together.

Heat your oven to 350 and place round dollops of the "dough" on a cookie sheet. Bake for 15 minutes.

Makes 4 cookies.

You can make these without the raisins, but I think they wouldn't be quite as good. And they are good!

You can also make these in the microwave - heat for 30 to 60 seconds.

So easy peasy!

Posted in General, Frugal Single Life, Year 39 | 6 Comments »

6 Responses to “Easy and Healthy Oatmeal Cookies”

  1. Joan.of.the.Arch Says:
    March 16th, 2015 at 02:10 am 1426471844
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    Oh, I'm going to try this. Smile Hope my store has a ripe banana tomorrow. Do you think it makes a difference whether they are old fashioned rolled oats or 5 minute cooking rolled oats?

  2. FrugalTexan75 Says:
    March 16th, 2015 at 02:46 am 1426473985
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    I don't think so. I used old fashioned rolled oats, but I don't see why the 5 minute ones wouldn't work. Maybe reduce baking time?

  3. Joan.of.the.Arch Says:
    March 16th, 2015 at 09:35 pm 1426541737
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    Laura, I've got them in the oven now. Smile I used chopped, dried apricots instead of raisins.

  4. rob62521 Says:
    March 16th, 2015 at 11:23 pm 1426548181
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    Easy and good! Thanks!

  5. Joan.of.the.Arch Says:
    March 17th, 2015 at 12:06 am 1426550791
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    Next time I will let the oats soak up the moisture from the bananas longer, and I will flatten them a bit more. These are big. Just one would make a good breakfast.

  6. FrugalTexan75 Says:
    March 17th, 2015 at 03:07 am 1426561659
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    Robb - glad you liked them Smile
    Joan - soaking a bit probably is a good idea. I didn't do that, but might next time. They do make for good sized cookies. Smile

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