Eating Healthy

This chocolate fudge recipe comes from a Certified Nutrition Specialist, Mike Geary. Mike aims to find different ways to make yummy foods that the majority of people can’t believe are actually healthy for the body. If you’re a fan of having something sweet any time of the day, then I know that you have tried to find ways to enjoy sweet desserts that aren’t like your typical junk sweet treats.

The low fat content myth

One of the biggest problems with manufactured health treats is that manufacturers of many ‘health foods’ lower the food’s fat content only to raise the sugar content. At the end of the day the body converts extra sugar to fat, so there is no point in eating these ‘fat-free’ snacks. Another trick is to reduce the fact content, but to increase the sodium content, because salty foods tend to be flavoursome.

The recipe below is Mike’s well known healthy chocolate-peanut-butter fudge recipe (note that you can exclude peanut butter, if you are not a fan, or if you have an allergy to nuts). This recipe takes around five minutes to make and is very straight-forward. The excellent thing about this healthy recipe is that there are no added sugars and all the fat that is used is sourced from ‘healthy fats.

Healthy chocolate fudge recipe ingredients:

* One extra dark chocolate bar (try to find a chocolate bar that has a cocoa content of at least 70% – the higher the concentration the better for this recipe (the amount of sugar in the chocolate bar is reduced)

* 4 to 5 Tbsp of your favourite peanut butter

* 2/3 to 3/4 cup of coconut milk (coconut milk provides the body with healthy saturated fats)

* 2 tbsp rice bran (the rice bran adds to the fibre content)

* 2 tbsp oat bran (oat bran also contains fibre – the soluble kind)

* 1/2 cup raw pecans, almonds, or walnuts (these ingredients contain healthy fats, in addition to antioxidants, vitamins and minerals)

* 1/2 cup dried raisins (depending on your preferences)

* 1 tsp vanilla extract

* a dash of stevia to lightly sweeten (stevia is a natural sweetener that contains very few calories). Alternatively any other sweetener will work as well.

Chocolate recipe directions

Begin with placing the coconut milk, peanut butter, and chocolate in a average sized saucepan, with the heat turned right down. Constantly stir the mix as the coconut milk, chocolate and peanut butter melts together. As soon as this mix is melted entirely, add in the other ingredients and mix thoroughly.

When you are satisfied that all the ingredients are mixed together well, place the entire mixture on to a sheet of greased paper, on-top of a baking dish. Place the baking dish in the fridge and leave for at least 6 hours to solidify and cool.

You have now just made a super healthy chocolate fudge dessert!

Note: be sure to remember that you cant double your portions, simply because this is a healthy recipe! Thankfully this recipe is not only much lower in calories than normal fudge, but contains vitamins and minerals that you otherwise wouldn’t find in a chocolate fudge recipe.

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