Afternoon Snack: Ants on a Log & Carrot Sticks

A snack blast from the past. "Ants on a Log" is a snack from many people's childhood, including mine. It involves filling celery sticks with peanut butter and covering with "ants" or raisins. To this snack I added chopped dates in addition to the classic raisins. I also had some carrot sticks. Just a simple snack, healthy and satisfying.

Apples, Peanut Butter, and Medjool Date Wrap

Whole Wheat wrap spread with Parkers Farm Inc. Natural Peanut Butter, sliced Red Delicious apples, and 2 quartered and pitted medjool dates for texture and sweetness.

Yum yum yum. I've made many peanut butter and apple wraps, but the addition of the madjool dates really makes a difference. I've been adding dates to many things lately, most notably my morning breakfast oatmeal/multigrain hot cereal.

The Peanut Butter is quite good, cheaper than lots of other natural peanut butters, and it's local. So I love it.

I've also tried out and enjoyed both Hempmilk and Oatmilk as something different than just soymilk. My favorite is still chocolate almond milk. I still need to try Hazlenut milk.

--> I must note that I know all the non-dairy alternatives to dairy milk are technically not allowed to be called "milk" and are to be referred to as non-dairy beverages. Meh, I still call them "milk."

Sprouted Grain English Muffins with Almond Date Cream Cheese Spread

I don't know exactly why I made this, but I'm glad I did. I just toasted an English muffin (I get these really yummy sprouted grain ones from Whole Foods) and spread 1T of Tofutti Cream Cheese on each half. Then, I took one almond date roll that I had purchased from the co-op and smashed it into the cream cheese so it became a spread. I'm sure that a better way to do this would be to thoroughly mix the cream cheese and date nut roll in a separate container, but this was more fun.

This was an awesome sweet and savory mix of flavors. Overall, a little indulgent but worth it.