Hi, people.
I don't know what week we're on.
I don't know if it's week six, seven or eight.
My healthy habits have certainly gone astray.
We are going to tackle the topic
of how to kickstart healthy habits
to get us all back on track.
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Needless to say, things are very different than our norm
and all of that combines
to make us crave things that are comforting
and I certainly know that I need to get back
to a healthier place.
Here are a few key tips for kickstarting healthy habits.
Number one, you have to identify your biggest barrier
to eating healthy.
For me, I'm not snacking
because the snacks I have in my house
aren't all that exciting and so I put it off, put it off
to the point where I'm absolutely,
absolutely starving at lunch
and I need something quick, easy and satisfying
which brings me to number two, you need to start small.
To make a healthy habit stick, it has to be easy enough
that you can do it every single day.
So thinking about my personal goal,
if I have a healthy snack today,
chances are I'm gonna feel better at lunchtime
which means I'm gonna have energy
to carry me through the afternoon
with another snack mixed in there.
So that's a pretty immediate benefit right there.
The third and final step,
make a plan that you can actually stick to.
It's gotta be something that's realistic.
Writing it down helps.
Maybe you have a family member in the house
that can also help encourage you.
For me, I'm going to make a healthy snack for the week
that I'm actually excited about eating
and the recipe I'm gonna walk through today
are the baked banana nut oatmeal cups.
All right, here's where we're at.
If you haven't toasted pecans yet,
you are going to see how easy it is.
So what I have is just a regular pan.
No oil in there.
Let's do medium heat.
We are just gonna pop in our pecans.
Toast these until they become fragrant.
All right, let's get started.
Crack these in here and whisk them up
and now I'm gonna mix in these mashed bananas, the milk.
So we're doing just the wet ingredients first.
Roughly mixed in there.
Now, we can add in our brown sugar, our oats.
Three cups of rolled oats here.
So this is a nice high fiber snack.
This actually would be a really yummy just oatmeal recipe.
Now, what I have is cinnamon, baking powder and salt.
Next up is my vanilla.
We need a teaspoon of this.
Just give this a mix.
Wow, this smells lovely.
Last, we are mixing in these pecans
which are still warm from being toasted.
There we go.
So what we'll do now is just divide this evenly
between the muffin tins here and pop it in the oven
and let it cook for 25 minutes.
This guy could use just a little more.
Already look and smell so yummy.
Just going to pop them in the oven now.
20 to 25 minutes until they're done.
Come in for a muffin?
Five, four, three, two.
They smell amazing.
Now, the challenge, I have to wait another 10 minutes
for them to cool a little bit.
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Ooh, I want this one.
They're so yummy.
You have about four grams of fiber per muffin.
You could easily make a double batch
if you have a larger household.
These are Stasher bags
but you can just pop your leftover muffins in here
and then just seal it super tight
and then pop it in the freezer like this.
I should have rethought this eating and talking thing.
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