Energy Balls | Brenda Janschek Health & Lifestyle https://brendajanschek.com Tue, 29 Nov 2022 02:58:23 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.7.15 Banana Energy Balls https://brendajanschek.com/recipe/banana-energy-balls/ https://brendajanschek.com/recipe/banana-energy-balls/#respond Wed, 09 Jun 2021 04:43:08 +0000 https://brendajanschek.com/?post_type=ra-recipe&p=20991 These banana bliss balls make for a naturally sweet and healthy snack. All you need to do is toss everything into a food processor, roll it into balls, and pop in the fridge! Healthy fats, fibre and protein are all packed into these bite-sized treats which need no baking and take only 10 minutes to make! These are perfect to give to your kids when they need a quick energy-boost or for when you might be feeling that mid-afternoon slump. It’s no secret, I’m a fan of the energy ball, you might already have a favourite recipe from my blog […]

The post Banana Energy Balls first appeared on Brenda Janschek Health & Lifestyle.]]> These banana bliss balls make for a naturally sweet and healthy snack. All you need to do is toss everything into a food processor, roll it into balls, and pop in the fridge!

Healthy fats, fibre and protein are all packed into these bite-sized treats which need no baking and take only 10 minutes to make!

These are perfect to give to your kids when they need a quick energy-boost or for when you might be feeling that mid-afternoon slump.

It’s no secret, I’m a fan of the energy ball, you might already have a favourite recipe from my blog like Cookie Dough Energy Balls, Chocolate Peanut Butter Bliss Balls, No Bake Peanut Butter Balls, or perhaps my Raw Cacao Balls?

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Banana Bliss Balls

Prep Time 10 minutes
Servings 16

Ingredients

  • 1.5 large ripe bananas
  • 2 cups rolled oats
  • 3/4 cup desiccated coconut plus extra for rolling
  • 1/4 cup coconut oil, melted
  • 1 tspn ground cinnamon
  • 1 tbsp chia seeds
  • 1/2 cup macadamias or cashews or mix of both
  • 1 tbsp maple syrup, raw honey or brown rice syrup
  • small pinch sea salt
  • dark chocolate chips optional but recommended

Instructions

  • Place all ingredients into high speed food processor/Thermomix and blend in high speed until combined and mixture starts to clump together. 
  • Roll into balls, press around 3 dark chocolate chips into each ball, rolls in coconut to coat.
  • Store in an air-tight container in the fridge or freezer.

If you’re looking for more recipe inspiration, take a look at my new recipe ebook which is getting rave reviews, Easy Wholefood Lunchboxes.

It’s packed with 40 delicious nut-free, refined sugar free sweet and savoury recipes which have all been kid-tested and approved!

If you make this recipe please do take photos and send them to me.

If you share them on instagram, remember to tag me @brendajanschek. Otherwise feel free to pm me your photos via Facebook. I get a total kick out of seeing you bring my recipes to life.

The post Banana Energy Balls first appeared on Brenda Janschek Health & Lifestyle.]]> https://brendajanschek.com/recipe/banana-energy-balls/feed/ 0 Cookie Dough Energy Balls https://brendajanschek.com/recipe/cookie-dough-energy-balls/ https://brendajanschek.com/recipe/cookie-dough-energy-balls/#comments Wed, 05 Jun 2019 02:27:46 +0000 https://brendajanschek.com/?post_type=ra-recipe&p=17490 This delightful recipe was inspired by my daughter’s representative netball team and her love of eating cookie batter! The netball representative carnivals are high intensity. They involve 7-8 half games in one day, preparing the girls for the big finale that is the 3-day State Netball Championships! The players aren’t really that hungry throughout the day, which is natural as they’re keeping their energy for playing, not digesting, but they still need to eat and drink to help prevent fatigue, keep them focused and keep their energy steady. In our Under 13’s age group, at the coaches request (yay!), all […]

The post Cookie Dough Energy Balls first appeared on Brenda Janschek Health & Lifestyle.]]> This delightful recipe was inspired by my daughter’s representative netball team and her love of eating cookie batter!

The netball representative carnivals are high intensity. They involve 7-8 half games in one day, preparing the girls for the big finale that is the 3-day State Netball Championships!

The players aren’t really that hungry throughout the day, which is natural as they’re keeping their energy for playing, not digesting, but they still need to eat and drink to help prevent fatigue, keep them focused and keep their energy steady.

In our Under 13’s age group, at the coaches request (yay!), all the parents pitch in to make sure there is an array of healthy snacks and food for the girls to eat between games.

Small protein and carb snacks are ideal which was how these Cookie Dough Energy Balls were born. As well as the fact my daughter’s main motivation to bake weekly is the allure of eating the leftover batter in the bowl at the end!

The combination of ingredients provide the perfect boost for the girls, all wrapped up in delicious, easy-to- eat little bites.

I have made a few batches of this since I created the recipe a couple of weeks ago and I can’t keep my kids hands off them (or mine!).

While most of us won’t be able to pack these in our school lunchboxes due to the nuts, my Easy Wholefood Lunchboxes recipe ebook is filled with nut free sweet and savoury recipes, like Apricot, Orange and Coconut Bliss Balls and Chocolate Tahini Oat Bites …

Many of the ingredients in this recipe can be sourced from my one-stop-favourite, organic wholefoods online store, The Wholefood Collective. They go to great lengths to ensure everything they source is amazing quality, they stock all my favorite products and I don’t even have to leave the house! Oh and the cherry on the cake is they donate profits to improve food security for vulnerable Aussies.

Here are some of the ingredients you’ll need:

Rolled oats
Desiccated coconut
White chia seeds
Almond meal
Peanut butter
Raw honey
Milk
Sea salt
Vanilla extract
Dark chocolate chips

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Cookie Dough Energy Balls

Prep Time 15 minutes
Author Brenda Janschek

Ingredients

  • 1 cups rolled oats or you can just use oat flour
  • 1/2 cup desiccated coconut
  • 1 tablespoon white chia seeds optional
  • 1 cup almond meal
  • 1/2 cup smooth peanut butter
  • 1/4 cup raw honey
  • 1 tablespoon milk I used almond milk
  • pinch sea salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • ¼ cup unsalted butter
  • 1/3 cup mini dark-chocolate chips

Instructions

  • In a food processor, grind oats, coconut and chia seeds (if using), until finely ground.
  • Add peanut butter, honey, almond meal, salt, vanilla, butter and milk. Process again until it's all mixed together well.
  • Stir through choc chips
  • Roll tablespoons of the dough into balls, if rolling proves difficult, press into balls using the palm of your hand.
  • Store in refrigerator. Can be frozen.

Notes

Time Saving Tip: Alternatively you can line a shallow square or rectangular baking tin with baking paper and press the dough into the tin, pop in freezer to set, then cut into bars.

If you’re looking for more recipe inspiration, take a look at my new recipe ebook which is getting rave reviews, Easy Wholefood Lunchboxes.

It’s packed with 40 delicious nut-free, refined sugar free sweet and savoury recipes which have all been kid-tested and approved!

If you make this recipe please do take photos and send them to me.

If you share them on instagram, remember to tag me @brendajanschek. Otherwise feel free to pm me your photos via Facebook. I get a total kick out of seeing you bring my recipes to life.

Other similar recipes you might like are Raw Cacao Balls  and Chocolate Orange Truffles

Bren x

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The post No-Bake Peanut Butter Balls first appeared on Brenda Janschek Health & Lifestyle.]]> Do those two little words ‘No-Bake’ get anyone else super excited?!

Don’t get me wrong.

I love nothing more than a good old cooking and baking session in the kitchen when time is on my side.

But let’s face it, those times can be few and far between for us working mummas.

Which means I’m always on the lookout for short cuts in the kitchen.

When you can throw a handful of ingredients into a bowl, mix it around, roll it into balls, and stick it in the fridge, life starts to feel easier.

The inspo for these delicious balls of goodness came because my gal oh so does love ‘licking the bowl’.

Always proclaiming how much more she loves my Anzac Biscuits, before they go into the oven.

So why don’t I knock out an entire cooking step I thought, and do the raw thang using a few of our favourite ingredients?

And the No Bake Chocolate Peanut Butter Ball was born and they make a perfect little after-school energy snack or mama afternoon snack and when you’re in the heat of summer and it’s too hot to turn the oven on!

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No-Bake Chocolate Peanut Butter Balls

Prep Time 5 minutes
Servings 15
Author Brenda Janschek

Ingredients

  • 2 cups rolled oats
  • 1/4 cup shredded coconut
  • 1/4 cup raw honey add a little more if needed
  • 1/2 cup peanut butter
  • 2 tablespoons coconut oil melted
  • 1/4 cup dark choc chips or chopped 70% dark chocolate
  • pinch sea salt

Instructions

  • Throw all the ingredients into a food processor, except the choc-chips, and blend up to your desired consistency. We like ours not too smooth, just with a bit of texture left.
  • If consistency is too dry to roll, add more melted coconut oil
  • Once blended, add dark chocolate chips and fold through
  • Pop a tablespoon of the mixture into the palm of your hand and roll into a ball
  • Once you have rolled all the mixture store the balls in the fridge

Notes

This recipes should make 10-15 balls depending on size.

There are more wholefood snack recipes in my Easy Wholefood Lunchboxes ebook.

If you make my recipes please take photos and send them to me, or if you share them on instagram, remember to tag me @brendajanschek. I get a total kick out of seeing you make my recipes.

Here are a couple other No Bake recipe ideas you might like – Raw Cacao Balls and these Protein Balls for Busy Women.

Bren x

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The post Brenda’s Breaky Ball (great for anytime of day!) first appeared on Brenda Janschek Health & Lifestyle.]]> I recently ran my Think Outside the Cereal Box breakfast workshop and found it was a very popular topic!

It was great to see so many people eager to get inspiration to move away from nutrient-depleted boxed cereal, and onto much healthier wholefood options.

As a treat, I thought I would develop a bliss ball recipe especially for the participants, and to show them how stuck we tend to get, into boxing our meals into the morning, noon, and night time slots.

A big bliss ball (or two) isn’t just a snack or healthy treat. Because it is much more nutrient-dense than say, Weet Bix, it can be eaten for breaky along with a green smoothie or big glass of milk. There’s really no need to time-of-day define it.

The cacao powder in the bliss ball acts as a powerful antioxidant and immune-booster in its raw state.

The nuts and seeds offer a great source of fat and protein (chia seeds are very high in Omega 3s), and the dates provide a natural source of sweetness and an easily digestible source of fiber.

Coconut oil is great for boosting the metabolism and helping us feel satiated, as well as being anti-viral, anti-fungal. What a great immune booster!

Many of the ingredients in this recipe can be sourced from my one-stop-favourite, organic wholefoods online store, The Wholefood Collective. They go to great lengths to ensure everything they source is of amazing quality, they stock all my favorite products and I don’t even have to leave the house! Oh, and the cherry on the cake is they donate profits to improve food security for vulnerable Aussies.

Here are some of the ingredients you’ll need:

180 Nutrition Chocolate Protein Powder
Medjool Dates
Cacao Powder
Cinnamon Powder
Chia Seeds
Almonds
Nut Butter
Desiccated Coconut
Coconut Oil
LSA

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Brenda's Breaky Ball

Prep Time 10 minutes
Total Time 10 minutes
Servings 10
Author Brenda Janschek

Ingredients

  • 1/3 cup 180 Nutrition Chocolate Protein Powder optional
  • 8 Medjool dates
  • 1 tablespoon cacao powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 2 teaspoons chia seeds
  • 1 tablespoon ABC nut butter
  • 2 tablespoons desiccated coconut extra for rolling
  • 3-4 tablespoons coconut oil
  • 1 tablespoon LSA optional
  • 1 cup raw almonds

Instructions

  • Pop almonds into food processor or Thermomix and grind to a meal.
  • Add the rest of the ingredients and process for approx 1 minute
  • Roll into large balls in your hands, then roll in some desiccated coconut.
  • Store in a container and pop in the fridge to set.
  • Best left in fridge or freezer.

If you’re looking for more recipe inspiration, take a look at my new recipe ebook which is getting rave reviews, Easy Wholefood Lunchboxes.

It’s packed with 40 delicious nut-free, refined sugar-free sweet and savoury recipes which have all been kid-tested and approved!

If you make this recipe and share on instagram remember to tag me @brendajanschek. Otherwise, feel free to pm me your photos via Facebook.

Some other delicious breakfast recipes you might like are Brenda’s Big Batch Bircher Muesli and Anti-Oxidant Smoothie.

  • Free Breakfast Recipe eBook

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