Oatmeal Cookie Timbits

Now that the swimming season is over I'm slowly switching over to running. Yesturday I went for a nice and easy 6km run and am hoping to slowly increase my distance. Once I get my endurance a bit up, I'll start adding in drills and speedwork. Since I'll be running a 10km race in the first week of May, it works out perfectly that I have 12 weeks to train. I just still need to formulate a proper training schedule :P

The one thing that I've forgotten about running is just how hungry it makes you :S So I set out to the kitchen to make yummy portable healthy chewy oatmeal Timbits as post-running snacks. I baked these before for a friend's B-day, but I've used more honey to make them more desert like. When baking I actually like to undercook the cookies as it keeps them moist and chewy. Also, keeping them in the fridge and eating them cold makes them taste so good and refreshing! So further a do, I'd like to introduce the...

Timbits gone Oats!

Ingredients (Makes around 15)

·         3 mashed and microwaved bananas

·         ¼ cup dried pineapples soaked in hot water

·         4 tbsp melter peanut butter (it was salted so I omitted salt)

·         2 cups of quick oats

·         1/3 cup milk

·         2 tsp cinnamon

·         1 tbsp honey (adjust to your taste, but honestly the bananas make them pretty sweet already)

       Directions

1.       1. Mix the microwaved bananas with melter peanut butter and milk

2.       2. Add in the oats and thouroughly mix

3.       3. Mix in the pineapple chunks, the cinnamon and honey

4.       4. Make around 15 balls

5.       5. Bake for 20ish minutes at 373 F (I left them slightly undercooked)

6.       6. Enjoy J