Healthy Cookies?

Karri Barlow

Use fresh ground whole wheat flour, half the measure of sugar, replace the reduced amount of sugar with honey, monk or coconut sugar. Use only "real" ingredients: for example, no hydrogenated fats, use butter or coconut oil. You should be able to make just about any type of cookie "healthy". My children even make their own "chocolate chips" for "healthy chocolate chip cookies"! It just depends on the boundaries you want to set. We are allergic to corn and chocolate so white sugar (has corn), white flour (has corn), and margarine (has corn) are absolutely forbidden for us. Besides that we have one diabetic that we truly try to keep their blood sugar stable with diet, rather than pills or shots, and cookies actually can help with that. Made the way I suggested they actually have a fair amount of protein and just the right amount of sugar for right before exercising, or something mentally stressful like school tests.

Karri Barlow

Just don't go over board because they are "healthy". Too much of the most healthy food in the world is still unhealthy. A little of many good things is better than a lot of a few good things.

Jennifer Goodchild

Try something like this

Faith George

Omg yas I was wondering the same thing bc even when I see "healthy" cookies they are not even healthy... Like be so fr

Brooklyn Munafo

Omgosh yeah like they are "healthy" cuz there's barely less sugar...like it's still not healthy💀

Karri Barlow

I really like these. I used fresh ground whole wheat flour, half the sweetener, replaced the sweetener with honey, used homemade orange ingredients, and half butter-half coconut oil. I used yogurt chips made with evaporated cane juice. Some times we take out 1 cup of flour and use 2 cups regular rolled oats. They are a nice change from "chocolate chip"!

Karri Barlow

Oh, and 1/4 the chips!

GingerAndNutmeg Ahhh

check out deceptively delicious by (Jessica? ) Seinfeld. amazing recipes, simple. dates or mple syrup (even vanilla extract or cinnamon) are another great substitute for sugar/sweetness. I stay away from processed substitutes like xylitol, stevia, monk fruit, even coconut sugar.

Brooklyn Munafo

Thank you so much, that's really helpful!

Brooklyn Munafo

Yeah of course! I was js searching for a healthier version of cookies even though they might still not be extremely healthy.

Brooklyn Munafo

Those look yummy, thanks I'll definitely try those!!

Brooklyn Munafo

That sounds deeeliiiicioussss, thank you!!