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Showing posts with label banana. Show all posts

Sunday, August 14, 2011

"Paleo Pancakes"

Now that I've gotten into cross fit, I've been indoctrinated into the Paleo diet -- short for Paleolithic, or "Caveman diet."  The concept is... don't eat anything you wouldn't have eaten when you were a caveman.  No grains, processed foods, candy, sugar, etc.  Meat, fish, fruits, vegetables.  Delicious right?  So here's a way to still enjoy pancakes while keeping to that strategy (note:  Peanut Butter is not necessarily paleo in and of itself, but I didn't have almond butter in the house to use this morning)

2 eggs
1 banana
2 T Peanut Butter

Mash banana, beat eggs, mix together with peanut butter.  Heat griddle and pour batter on to make pancakes (As per usual pancake recipe instructions).

Makes 8 pancakes.  Nutritional info per pancake.

  Calories 56.7
  Total Fat 3.3 g
      Saturated Fat 0.7 g
      Polyunsaturated Fat 0.9 g
      Monounsaturated Fat 1.5 g
  Cholesterol 46.3 mg
  Sodium 37.1 mg
  Potassium 114.6 mg
  Total Carbohydrate 4.9 g
      Dietary Fiber 0.7 g
      Sugars 2.4 g
  Protein 2.7 g                                            I added chocolate chips to mine (yum!)  You could add blueberries or apples too, as per your taste.  Skip the syrup and butter -- you won't need it.