Crispy Oatmeal Cookies

eggLearn how to prepare some crunchy oatmeal cookies, sweetened with erythritol and flavored with vanilla essence, perfect for breakfast or a snack.

Prepare a good batch of crunchy oatmeal cookies and store them in a box for the rest of the week.

If you have children, it’s a good solution to vary their breakfasts and snacks, give them the opportunity to eat cookies beyond industrial products rich in sugars and unhealthy fats.

Do you know what traditional oatmeal cookies contain? Yes, those ones, the ones we’ve always bought, including myself, plus the oats, which are usually around 37% in any version, wheat flour, and lots of sunflower oil and palm oil. If it were only that, I’d be half-calm, but now comes the best part: glucose syrup, fructose syrup, and sugar. But so that we don’t doubt how good they are when we buy them, their “high fiber content” is emphasized and we are told to consume them “as part of a varied and balanced diet, as part of a healthy lifestyle.” How can there be so much cynicism printed on a cardboard box? A varied and balanced diet? The moment you consume those types of cookies, industrial pastries in the grand scheme of things, you’ve already ruined the supposed “varied and balanced diet.” style=”text-align: center;”>Oats have beneficial properties, eat them in moderation, and better wholegrain and organic.

 

From my point of view, oats are a cereal with two faces, it has beneficial properties, but on the other hand it contains antinutrients and compounds that can harm our health, especially if we abuse it, but if you don’t, it will not cause you any problems.

The problem is in the industrial products that contain it, ignore the rest, emphasize their virtues (mainly that it contains fiber), and forget to remind you that their products are rich in refined vegetable oils, in industrial fats, which are used to cheapen the final product, and in glucose syrups, fructose and, of course, sugar.

 

 

Why am I making this introduction, simply so that you realize that the problem is not consuming oatmeal cookies from time to time, the fundamental problem is consuming industrial oatmeal cookies, if you want some cookies, make them yourself and control the ingredients.

Years go by and it seems that the food industry is interested in making it seem that it cares about our health, there is a lot of 0% printed on the packaging and many phrases like “remember to lead a healthy lifestyle”, “do sport”, etc.

 

Avoid industrial cookies, avoid unhealthy fats and glucose and fructose syrups, they do not contribute anything, they only predispose to inflammation and disease.

 

But the reality is that they continue to offer the same unhealthy or unhealthy products as always, they want us to consume them thinking that they are good, they have given them a facelift and they expect us to believe that things have changed.

Well, they have not changed, you just have to check the figures for childhood obesity in Spain, here is the link to the 2019 ENPE study, published by the Spanish Journal of Cardiology: Prevalence of overweight, obesity and abdominal obesity in the Spanish population between 3 and 24 years of age. ENPE Study

The data speak for themselves, and as the author, Dr. Javier Aranceta-Bartrina, says:

Overweight and obesity at early ages pose a risk of premature development of alterations in the homeostasis of blood pressure, blood glucose levels and plasma lipids, among other parameters. It causes joint overload, disorders of body image and social relationships or the possibility of participating with some comfort in non-sedentary sports or recreational activities.

That is why it is essential that we take action on the matter, our health and that of our children is at stake.

 

 

I still don’t see that it existsa collective awareness regarding the danger of feeding children too much sugar in their diet, I think it is not given the importance it deserves.

I recommend that you start with small changes that will lead to an improvement and that little by little you advance until they themselves decide to do without certain products.

We are human beings and we are capable of adapting, we easily get used to everything, the good and the bad, why not try it?.

 

Make sugar-free crunchy oatmeal cookies at home and control the ingredients.

 

Ingredients to make these crunchy oatmeal cookies:

Soft flaked oats, flour of coconut, erythritol, egg, vanilla essence and water or vegetable milk. There are only 6 ingredients! and they are easy to memorize, in other words, when you get used to it you won’t have to look at the recipe, they will come out naturally.

I usually buy whole grain oat flakes and grind them at home with the food processor, if you prefer to buy oat flour, you save that step, but it is always better to buy the least processed ingredients.

I usually buy the coconut flour already made, to make it at home you need coconut with a low percentage of humidity, you can make it with grated coconut that is quite dry.

Mix the two flours, add the sweetener (I usually use erythritol) and mix very well. On the other hand, mix all the wet ingredients, beat the egg, add the vanilla essence and the vegetable milk (or water). Mix everything and knead, make a ball and then small balls, place them on a baking tray on greaseproof paper, put another piece of paper on top and flatten with another tray, press well so that the cookies are thin. Bake at 180°C for 18-20 min. Be sure to watch them so they don’t burn, let them cool on a rack.

 

To make these crunchy oatmeal cookies you only need 6 ingredients!

 

 

Options:

• If you want to make crunchy oatmeal cookies that are GLUTEN-FREE, buy certified gluten-free oats.
• Add chocolate chips to the dough for an extra kick.
• Make some with currants – they’re great.

 

Why I like this recipe:

• I control the ingredients; I know what’s in my cookies.
• I avoid refined vegetable oils, palm fat, and glucose-fructose syrups.
• They’re quick to make and take few minutes ingredients.
• They are suitable for the whole family, children love them.
• Sweeten with erythritol, you only need a small amount.

 

I’ll leave you the recipe for these cookies below, I’m sure you’ll love them. 😉

And if you’re looking for a vegan option without eggs, here’s an idea…

Muffins veganos de avena y manzana sin azúcar