Lactation bites

Happy Friday! In honor of meeting my 3 month breast feeding goal I wanted to share my favorite lactation recipe thus far. As I've mentioned a couple of times before I have struggled with a low milk supply in the past so this time I have been super proactive about the situation. I'm constantly researching ways to increase my supply, maintain my supply and switching up my diet in order to insure that I am successful at breastfeeding this time around. With that said, I've tried A LOT of different things but the one recipe that I've come across that works AND tastes good is the one I want to share today. I love to bake- always have but I feel that even if you aren't a "baker" this recipe is really simple and you really can't mess it up.


Prep time: 15 min
Cook time 12-14 min

Ingredients

• 1 cup of peanut butter
• 1/2 cup of softened butter
• 1/2 cup of brown sugar
• 1 teaspoon  of vanilla
• 2 large eggs
• 1-2 ripe bananas, mashed (I use two to help offset the taste of brewers yeast)
• 1 1/2 cups whole wheat flour
• 1 teaspoon of baking soda (Corey was confused about this one LOL)
• 1 teaspoon of salt
• 1 3/4 cups of old fashioned oats
• 1 cup of ground flaxseed
• 3 tablespoons if brewers yeast (I bought it at GNC)
• 1 1/2 cups of dark chocolate chips

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350 F
2. With an electric mixer, cream the butter, peanut butter and brown sugar until smooth and creamy. Beat in the eggs and vanilla. Add the mashed bananas and mix just until combined.
3. Mix in the flour, baking soda and salt. Add the oats, flax and brewers yeast until well combined. Stir in the chocolate chips
4. Drop large balls of dough onto greased baking sheets. Bake for 12 minutes (one of my batches took 14 because the balls were larger) until they are set and starting to brown. Let cool for 5 minutes on cookie sheets the transfer to wire racks to cool completely.

Notes
With my first batch I separated the bites a good bit because the balls were large and I didn't want them to touch. The recipe originally called them cookies but I believe that is an inaccurate description of them. They only expand a tiny bit so 2 inches apart is plenty of room for them. The original recipe also said it makes 24 'cookies'... I ended up with 27 lol.


If you try this recipe please let me know what you think and/or what you did or didn't do :)


xoxo

Hello Blogging World

Hey, everyone! I'm so excited to FINALLY write my first post. I've been back and forth with the idea of creating my own blog for some time now and just decided to finally take the plunge and do it. I still have so much to learn but I think I've got the basics down. Now for an introduction.

My name is Shea and I'm a stay at home mom of 3 in North Carolina. My husband, kids and I have lived here for a little over 2 years and we made the move here from Georgia. I was born and raised in GA and my husband was born there but moved a couple of times throughout his childhood before making it back to GA. We have one son, Jaiden, who's 6 and two daughters, Ophelia age 3 and Scarlett age 2. We also have 3 fur babies all of which are pitties but don't worry they don't bite ;)

Random facts about me:
-I love everything chocolate
-I avoid spicy foods at all cost (except wings- all flats please!)
-Greys anatomy is my all time favorite show
-My favorite color is pink although I tend to wear a lot of black and gray clothes
-I only like Hawaiian pizza
-I want to have two more kids
-Fall is my favorite season
-All 5 of us are New England Patriot fans

When I'm not chasing around my littles (or cleaning up their never ending messes), I love to shop for home decor, clothes and shoes online... ESPECIALLY shoes HA. My husband and I have a silent competition about whose "shoe game" is the best. I'm a die hard online shopper and I call myself the queen at finding amazing deals. If there's a price difference of something or a coupon out there you can bet that I will find it. 98% of everything that I buy is online, even my groceries (thanks grocery pick up and delivery). I loathe having to go to stores to buy anything and I think the main thing that definitely puts it on my no no list is.. have you ever taken 3 young kids to a store by yourself *insert hand over face emoji* it's close to impossible.  But as well all know some things you just can't buy online.. like a new brand of jeans that you've never tried before lol.

xoxo