These are a great snack or addition to a meal. (it would be the fat you would add to a meal as a “dessert”)
They give you a few things you need to support healthy hormones. In combination with other foods and habits this can dramatically help with symptoms over time.
Ingredients
1 cup of natural almond butter or more if needed for extra ingredients at room temperature
Choose one or two: chicory root powder (fiber), collagen powder, protein powder (I suggest chocolate), red maca (good for reducing hot flashes, improving sex drive and other symptoms) 5 tbsp
3 tbsp organic honey or brown rice syrup
1/2 cup flax meal
1/3 cup walnut bits
organic fair trade cocoa powder
parchment paper
Directions
add almond butter and powder of choice to bowl and mix.
add in honey or syrup and mix. It should be quite wet. If not add either more peanut butter or honey. (there aren’t a lot of carbs in these a tbsp of extra honey won’t add too much more. Another 1/4 cup of peanut butter will add more fat but not much when divided)
mix in flax meal. It may be a bit crumbly and that is ok.
add walnuts and mix.
line a container with parchment paper.
put some cocoa powder in a small bowl (1/4 of a cup should be plenty)
using a measured tbsp, scoop mixture and then roll into a ball in your hands. It will be crumbly mixture in tbsp but should mold together and form a solid ball.
drop ball in the bowl with cocoa and roll it around.
scoop it out with a spoon and place formed balls on parchment paper. Layer if need be.
should make 20 balls.
place in refrigerate until set and firm.
Serving size 2 balls
calories 249
carbs 18.6 gms (with chicory root - 5.3 gms fiber, approx 3 gms of fiber with red maca powder)
fat 18.7 gms
protein 7.4 gms (with protein powder 10 gms)