Receta New Veggie Recipe: Cheesy Quinoa Bites
THANK GOODNESS for meal planning. Not only does it keep me from melting into a pile of tears when I’m too hungry and can’t find anything to eat, but it also keeps me from emotional eating!
I am STRESSED to the max. More stressed than when we were buying a house AND planning a wedding at the same time? Yep. More stressed. I can’t get to the gym fast enough, because I need that sweat and those sweet, sweet endorphins.
AND I am a huge emotional eater. Two years ago, this stress would have sent me down a bag of french fries and into a block of cheese. But I know that I do this; I am aware. Plus with a meal plan, I already knew what I was going to eat for supper last night.
Problem solved.
Quinoa Bites!
Packed with protein, fiber, and veggies, these little bites bring the flava’ while being the perfect size for dippers!
I found the recipe for these babies on Pinterest here. I followed it to the letter, except I subbed the flour with Bob’s Red Mill Gluten Free Oat Flour.
If I had had GF All Purpose on hand, then I would have used that but I’m all out.
I also added 1/2 cup more carrot than the recipe called for.
This is my new veggie recipe of the week, so I wanted to amp it up.
I baked the bites in this handy….thing-a-ma-jig:
It’s a Flexible Silicone Mini Brownie Bites pan that I found at Michael’s. Truthfully, I had bought it to make jello shots in!
It was nice because once they were finished, I could just pop them right out! But the above pan is not mandatory. You could use a muffin tin too. Just make sure you grease them!
YUM!
And yes, you guessed it, they re-heat beautifully!
Happy Monday!
Are you an emotional eater? What’s your go to food and how do you resist?
My resistance:I am off to the gym to sweat it up!