Dark Chocolate Rice Cakes

A Few Hungry Girls

Most people I know hate rice cakes, they are typically bland and dry. Well not these cake!! Well they're still dry but that's obvious, but when dipped in chocolate and topped with Honey Chipotle almonds, chia seeds, and sunflower seeds they're bomb.com. I wanted a low cal snack that packed a big punch in the flavor department and these worked out perfectly. These rice cakes also are the PERFECT late night snack!

 

INGREDIENTS: 

(this is for 8 rice treats)

4 Rice Cakes (I went with Apple Cinnamon)

2 chocolate bars 

Sunflower Seeds

Chia Seeds 

Chipotle Honey Almonds

DIRECTIONS: 

1. Cut rice cakes in half and melt chocolate in microwave for 30 seconds at a time stirring frequently. Make sure they don't burn and get lumpy!

2. Coat top 1/2 of rice cake with chocolate. 

3. Immediately add chia, sunflower, and almonds to chocolate protion. 

4. Allow to cool by placing rice cakes in freezer so the chocolate hardens, and ingredients stick!

 These rice cakes are seriously unbelievable! I couldn't even wait to eat these, originally they were made ahead for my boo's birthday, I don't think they'll make it very far. Oh and did I tell you they were super easy?

Stay hungry my friends...

Ray B.

Pumpkin Spice Chia Bread

A Few Hungry Girls

If you read my post from a few weeks ago called "Cha Cha Cha Chia Seeds" I promised a few recipes with chia seeds and finally I delivered! Please excuse the subpar pics, I didn't have my good camera charged and I promised a few people I'd have the recipe up tonight! 

I've been wanting to make a pumpkin bread this month and I needed to incorporate chia seeds into a recipe. I did some research and found that you can actually use chia seeds to swap several ingredients in food! These food swaps include: oil, eggs, and thickeners for smoothies and shakes! In this recipe I swapped out oil for chia seeds.

Cha cha cha CHIA seeds

 

Whats the deal with Chia Seeds?

Many of us have seen chia seeds everywhere and are often led to believe they can help with weight loss. They are high in fiber, protein, and mix well in various foods but here is the cold hard truth:
1. Diet and exercise are they only things that can consistently help you lose weight
2. Chia seeds were originally used to grow hair on the famed Chia Pets. I had one...lol
 
I wanted to make this long drawn out post stating all the good and bad things about Chia seeds, but really there are only a few things you need to know! Chia seeds are not bad for you by any means and work great as an additive to food, below I've composed a list of 5 facts about Chia seeds: