Oatmeal Cookies 🍪 The Delicious and Healthy Cookie Alternative

Oatmeal Cookies are a healthy and delicious alternative
Oatmeal Cookies are a Delicious and Healthy Alternative to Regular Cookies

Regular cookies (they don’t have to be chocolate chip) are loaded with sugar and refined white flower.

We’ll talk about to sugar later. First, let’s have a quick delve into the terrifying truth of refined white flower.

Why is white flour bad for you?

Whole grain is made up of three parts. From the outside moving in we have the bran, which is certainly a good source of fibre, B vitamins and antioxidant, then there is the endosperm (the section that most people haven’t heard of!) this is the least useful section of the grain, and predominantly consists of carbohydrates. Last of all, in the center, there is the germ, which includes healthy proteins, minerals, fat and more B vitamins.

As you’ve likely already guessed, the refining process used to make white flower chucks out the bran as well as the germ and just focusses on the endosperm. The part of the grain where there is the very least nutritional value.

Flour, and then ultimately cookies (as well as bread, or a whole range of other things) which is made from the endosperm is extremely hazardous to your health. So just why do they make it? Why does refined white flour even exist? Because it keeps longer. And products that have a longer sell by date generate a lot more profit. (which of course is significantly more important than our health, right!?)

Refined white flower can lead to an entire multitude of health issues. Including but in no way limited to: excess fat, diabetes, heart conditions, cancers, digestion problems, the list continues!

Now for the sugar

Sugar gets such a bad rep already that I don’t think I need to beat it down anymore. Everybody knows it’s bad for us… but it makes stuff taste good, and so we carry on eating it.

Loads of things are just as good without sugar too. Oatmeal cookies are a great example. They get their sweetness from healthier alternatives to sugar, including honey, cinnamon, vanilla extract, raisins, or even chocolate!

Oatmeal cookies are made using whole wheat flower, which includes all of the good parts of the grain, just like nature intended.

I also feel I need to say that they actually taste much better too! Wouldn’t you agree? To me at least, oatmeal cookies seem far more indulgent and sophisticated than normal cookies… and don’t get me started on oatmeal cookies with stem ginger! They always get the top secret hiding place at the back of the pans! Way too good for kids!

Drop me a comment below and let me know which is your most favourite cookie. Is it a wholesome luxurious oatmeal extravaganza similar to my stem ginger treats? If you love cookies, but you haven’t tried them yet, you really need to!

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