{"id":20188,"date":"2018-01-19T14:29:45","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T19:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.slimmingeats.com\/blog\/?p=20188"},"modified":"2023-06-13T05:34:12","modified_gmt":"2023-06-13T10:34:12","slug":"healthy-apple-sultana-oat-bites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slimmingeats.com\/blog\/healthy-apple-sultana-oat-bites","title":{"rendered":"Healthy Apple Sultana Oat Bites"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Healthy Apple Sultana Oat Bites which are super easy to make and perfect for the whole family to enjoy. They contain no artificial sweeteners and are a perfect breakfast, dessert or snack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Recently I put out the question to my readers to see what kind of new recipes you would all like to see on the blog, of course as always the biggest request was cakes, desserts and snack type items. What can I say we like are sweet things, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I love asking you, my readers the kind of things you want to see, while the majority of the time I cook all these healthy delicious food for me and my family, it is also important that the recipes I bring you are things you are going to love and enjoy too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Don't forget if you have a particular request for a Slimming Eats Recipe, that you do not see in my FULL RECIPE INDEX<\/a> <\/strong><\/span>(which now has over 700+ Slimming Eats Recipes), feel free to drop me a message through my contact page<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, with your requests and I will do my best to create those recipes for you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On my Slimming journey, I try to be conscious of the ingredients I am using, which means not going heavy on artificial and processed foods. That is the beauty of the Slimming programme, it gives us a list of basic generic free foods that we can pick and choose from, without the need to weigh or count calories. It's a programme that is totally maintainable for that reason. It can get tedious if you are having to constantly weigh everything or work out calories etc. The rule of adding \u2153 vegetables to your plate is the key, it is what naturally balances out the portions of all your other free foods, and should be applied to most meals where possible, although the occasional meal where vegetables really are not fitting in with the dish is perfectly fine. For example - Fish and Chips<\/a> <\/strong><\/span>(although you could totally add vegetables to that too if you really wanted to.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Check out my post on the Benefit of vegetables<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, which explains how this works within the program in more detail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sometimes we get far too focused on all the packaged healthy extra's and convenience foods because we want things quickly, especially when we get a craving for something sweet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recently I have been making a lot more of my own snacks and enjoying those instead, it's cheaper, you can sometimes make a batch and freeze stuff, so you always have things on hand and it is much much healthier too. I mean have you actually looked at the ingredients list on some items? It can sometimes sound a bit like a scientific experiment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So when I got the request for some sweet recipes, I wanted to make sure it tasted amazing, used basic healthy ingredients, and at the same time wasn't hugely high on the calories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do remember though when you see dessert or cake recipes that have hardly any calories, the majority of the time they are not going to taste amazing or like real cake. Sometimes you have to be willing to use a few more calories for something to taste how you expect it to taste.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I make a lot of Slimming Eats Sweet, Cake and Dessert recipes using my healthy serving of oats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Oats are a great Healthy food choice and a great source of important vitamins, minerals, fibre and antioxidants. You can also get gluten-free one if you need to avoid gluten for any reason. Just remember not all oats are gluten-free, as some can be cross-contaminated, so it is important that they say gluten-free on the packaging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I really tested out this recipe, tweaking it a couple of times until the bake was perfect. I don't like to post things that are just okay, my recipes have to be amazing and family approved and these Healthy Apple Cinnamon Oat Bites got the huge thumbs up!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Make up a batch of these and freeze the other portions, all you need to do is take out and defrost as you want them. They are seriously yummy and cake-like and have an amazing flavour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The only unusual ingredient to some is the pumpkin puree<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, but it is available at most grocery stores and on Amazon. Just make sure the one you buy is just 100% pumpkin puree. There is some pumpkin pie filling ones that are loaded with added sugar, so those need to be avoided. Another great thing about pumpkin is that it is a speed food and really delicious used in various recipes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Check out some of my other Pumpkin Recipes, to use up any leftover pumpkin puree you have:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n