CREATIVE INPUT: Teenager Food!

COOKBOOK CHALLENGE - TEENAGER FOOD!

My daughter is a senior in high school and applying to college. Not just any college but an art school that has a fashion design program

This is adds another layer of stress to the entire process because she needs to add a portfolio of her work to each application.

For more information on all of that please visit my first blog Buttoning Up a Fashion School with Mimi. This is why I have an old picture of me and Mimi - no one will recognize her as a 17 year old! I didn't know the picture would follow me to this blog!

Back to the here and now - she came out of her room feeling very defeated at the mountain of work in front of her - time for some teen fuel! I made her Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Granola!

I was on my Pinterest board working out some ideas for what I was going to put through the Cookbook Challenge - my recipe board to overstuffed too!

Granola is fuel! The problem with store bought granola is that it almost always has almonds in it and Mimi has a tree nut allergy. This recipe has only peanut butter, olive oil, maple syrup. I added a tablespoon of ground flax seeds which is high in omega 3's - brain boost!

First you toss 3 cups of rolled oats with 2 Tbsp sugar and set aside. In a saucepan melt together

1/4 cup olive oil, or grape seed oil, or coconut oil, 1/4 creamy peanut butter, 1/4 cup maple syrup stirring until smooth. Pour over the rolled oats and stir to combine.