Controlling portion size is so important for people who are trying to watch their weight. What better way to control portion size when cooking than to prepare just enough for one serving? I’ve been experimenting with single serve microwave recipes prepared in a mug and I was surprised by the number of options I found. Here are just a few: Vegan Muffin in a Mug Meatloaf Peanut Butter Cake Muffin in a Mug I started with this recipe from Feasting on Fruit but made a couple of mo

Full of Beans Chickpeas are the Garbanzo Roasted Chickpeas Beans for Breakfast Bean What?! Full of Beans Today I’m featuring chickpeas but before I get to that, I thought I would share this picture of my freezer drawer: As you can see I keep a pretty good stockpile of beans. Dried beans are incredibly cheap and easy to prepare and freeze. They keep for several weeks and don’t have any of the sodium or other health issues involved with canned beans.  I do occasionally buy cann

Miraculous Banana Oat Cookies I used to love to bake cookies.  I would also eat lots of those cookies while baking them so I stopped.  But I recently realized that I could still bake cookies if I did two things: A) Find recipes that did not include tons of sugar and unhealthy fats. B) Bake smaller quantities. Hence the Miraculous Banana Oat Cookie recipe.  Technically these cookies only require two ingredients and the name says it all;  1 medium banana and ½ cup of rolled oat