Weekly Playgroup Snack: Mud (No-Bake Cookies)

Good Morning Wonderful Parent-Readers!
This yesteryear calendar week at our PLAY GROUP, nosotros read well-nigh dirt as well as mud, as well as decided to swallow some "mud" afterwards!
(not really, nosotros merely had some delicious no-bake cookies)
This is a peachy care for for your children, specially to hand them a picayune to a greater extent than whole-grains inward their diet... at that spot is oatmeal inward this recipe as well as your kids won't fifty-fifty notice!!

No-Bake Chocolate Peanut-Butter Cookies
I got this recipe from The Food Network

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Here's What You'll Need:

- three cups of quick oats

- 2 cups of sugar

- 1/2 loving cup of milk

- four Tbs of cocoa powder

- 1 stick of butter

- 1 loving cup peanut butter

- 1 Tbs vanilla

- Wax paper

*TIP* Some kids may non similar the texture of the oatmeal inward the cookies. I had some oatmeal soil upwards (in a nutrient processor, thus it was to a greater extent than similar flour) as well as did one-half n one-half inward the recipe.

Here's What You Do:

• First, combine the sugar, milk, butter, as well as cocoa inward a large sauce pan as well as convey to a boil.
• After boiling for 1 minute, add together the peanut butter, vanilla as well as oatmeal.
• Mix until all even, as well as thus drib teaspoonfuls onto the wax newspaper to cool as well as harden.
• (I placed them inward the refrigerator to speed upwards the cooling process)
• And that's it! All fix to eat!!

*TIP*: although this snack is non all nutritious (lots of butter as well as sugar) it does choose oatmeal as well as peanut butter, hither are some good for you lot facts well-nigh oatmeal as well as peanut butter:

Oatmeal is a proficient root of Fiber, something that children (and adults!) larn by to choose inward our diets. One loving cup of oatmeal equals four grams of fiber. Other high-fiber foods tin post away survive found HERE.
For to a greater extent than data on fiber as well as the benefits of whole grains view QuakerOats.

Peanut Butter tin post away likewise survive beneficial to us. Natural peanut butter is much ameliorate than refined, because it does non choose every bit much saccharide as well as other additives. Nonetheless, peanut butter, natural or refined, contains poly peptide as well as is proficient for the heart. Click HERE for to a greater extent than facts well-nigh peanut butter.

 Here are some pictures of the play grouping this week:

 See you lot side yesteryear side time!