Healthier Energy Bites to ring the new year!! Feel good without feeling guilty…
It’s January, folks. 2015. A New Year. Filled with new possibilities, goals and experiences.
I don’t know about you, but I kinda over-ate. Especially with the sweets. While we were in Dallas, I pretty much stayed on track with my exercise routine by running on their treadmill and my dad kept telling me “enjoy the holidays! The diet can start next year!”
For me though, it’s not about going crazy and eating to my heart’s content. It’s about balance, eating okay, still indulging a little over the holidays but still exercising and staying on track as much as possible with my running because, if you work out regularly, you know workouts keep you sane and focused. At least this is what they do for me.
On the plane ride over to Dallas, I was reading my Bon Appétit magazine and read that they are launching their 
Enter these no-bake Chocolate Sesame Butter Flaxseed energy bites! These are like the best things ever. If you have never made these for yourself (a version of these), you seriously need to make some, like now. These are the best because you can pack these little guys with good, healthy stuff and chocolate chips (or whatever you want) and raisins and other dried fruit and you’ve got yourself one little satisfying sweet treat or snack.
You can use peanut butter to hold these together or, today I used my 
I keep these energy bites in a plastic bag with me in my purse so I have something to snack on while running errands or most recently, when I was traveling.
These delicious energy bites of joy are packed with 
I hope you give these energy bites a try and be sure to enter the giveaway below so you can enter to win a Soom Sampler pack, a 12oz tahini and 12oz chocolate sesame butter, like you see above.
Who else will be eating healthier this month?
Chocolate Sesame Butter Flaxseed Energy Bites
Ingredients
- 1 cup + 1 tablespoon old fashioned rolled oats
- 1 cup Soom chocolate sesame butter
- 1/4 cup honey
- 1/4 cup peanut butter chips or morsels
- 1/4 cup dried cranberries
- 1/4 cup raisins
- 1/4 cup sunflower kernels
- 1/4 cup shredded unsweetened coconut
- 1/4 cup almonds
- 1 heaping tablespoon raw whole flax seeds
- 1/2 cup flaxseed meal
- Special equipment suggested: cookie scoop
Instructions
- Using a food processor, pulse together all of the ingredients until fully combined and the ingredients have formed together.
- Using a cookie scoop if you have one, form the mixture into balls (about a tablespoon) and place them on a baking sheet.
- Refrigerate for 30 minutes and enjoy! Energy bites can be stored in an airtight container and refrigerated for up to 3-5 days.
The Giveaway!!
(open to residents within the United States only)
Disclosure: This is not a paid, sponsored post. I really love Soom Foods and wanted to help introduce this product to you all. The giveaway is sponsored and made possible by Soom Foods.
