Oatmeal Cookies

Hey Cookie Monsters!

Zillions of bodybuilders and fitness models have the following in their meal plan:

So why not combine all of these ingredients and make warm and chewy cookies?

Just look at them!!!

These are awesome because they are:

Place the following into a bowl:

1 scoop of BSN ISOBURN Whey (vanilla ice cream flavour).
3/4 cup of gluten-free rolled oats.
1 TBSP of nut butter. Feel free to use all natural peanut butter or almond butter.
5 g (that would be 1 tsp) of raw cacao nibs. You can substitute with >70% dark chocolate chips.
Dash of cinnamon
Sweeten with 1 TBSP Walden Farms Calorie Free/Sugar Free Pancake Syrup. You could substitute with vanilla stevia, luo han guo, or vanilla extract.
Add a sparing amount of water whilst mixing the abovementioned ingredients. Don’t add too much water. You want to end up with a "dense protein boulder".

Make into cookie shapes and place onto a Paraflexx non stick drying sheet in your food dehydrator. I decided to invest in the smallest and least expensive Excalibur Food Dehydrator.

Dehydrate at 95-105 degrees until dry on the outside and moist on the inside. I left mine in my dehydrator for 4 and 1/2 hours.
If you don't eat them all, store them in an air tight container.
I was able to make 7 cookies using these quantities. Feel free to make bigger or smaller cookies.

What if you don't have a food dehydrator and you don't want to buy one?

Use your oven at the lowest temperature setting possible (100 to 150 degrees)
Place the cookies onto a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper or a Silpat mat.
Place into the oven and keep the door open. Use a fan if your oven has one (to minimize condensation)
You don't have to leave it in the oven as long as you would in the dehydrator. Check after 1 to 2 hours.

This recipe yields approximately 7 cookies and amounts to:

calories: 309, fat: 17.2g, saturated fat: 3g, cholesterol: 10mg, sodium: 199.4 mg, carbohydrates: 60.6 g, fiber: 13.5g, NET CARBS: 47.1, sugars: 5.1 g, protein: 34.8 g

One cookie would be:

calories: 43.7, fat: 2.5g, saturated fat: 0.4 g, cholesterol: 1.4 mg, sodium: 28.5 mg, carbohydrates: 8.7 g, fiber: 1.9 g, NET CARBS: 6.8 g, sugars: 0.7 g, protein: 5 g