Fit Friday; Candied Peanuts Granola Bites Recipe & Frazzled Treadmill

Our Candied Peanuts Granola Bites Recipe for your summertime snacking pleasure! Today's graham cracker granola is packed with healthy for you ingredients--whole grain oats, milled flax seed, wheat germ, peanut butter, peanuts, honey, and of course graham crackers! The kiddos will go crazy over it! :) YAY!! It’s Fit Friday! We love hangin’ out with Miss Nichole from Pure Clean Coaching. She’s been a part of our Friday’s for many years. We love her!

Why we love Candied Peanuts Granola Bites Recipe

We spend a lot time outdoors in the summertime and hiking is a favorite! We pack snacks and water for longer hikes, so that's when I take my favorite granola snacks along. Our Candied Peanuts Granola Bites is an awesome way to stay fueled up on all your summer activities!

How to make Candied Peanuts Granola Bites Recipe

• Preheat oven 350 degrees.
• Coat baking sheet with cooking spray; set aside.
• In a large mixing bowl combine oats, flax seed, wheat germ, candied peanuts, and sea salt; mix.
• In a sauce pan over medium heat- melt butter, add honey, maple syrup, and peanut butter; stir and cook until smooth.
• Remove from heat, add vanilla and stir until incorporates.
• Pour while stirring into oats mixture.

 

• Evenly spread on prepared baking sheet, cook 10 minutes.
• Stir and cook 5 minutes.
• Return granola to mixing bowl, add egg white; toss to coat.
• Add graham chunks; toss to mix.
• Evenly spread on sheet and bake 5-7 minutes more.
• Cool completely on pan and break into clusters when cooled.
• Enjoy your Candied Peanuts Granola Bites Recipe!

*A link to the full Candied Peanuts Recipe 

More Healthy Snack Recipes

• Peanut Butter Granola Snack Mix • Chocolate Trail Mix Power Bites • Wild Blueberry Granola • Almond Power Bites • Coconut Cherry Almond Granola • Dark Chocolate Raw Bars  

Take along some Candied Peanuts Granola Bites Recipe to keep all those little bellies full and happy!

Fit Friday with Nichole

 As I sit here my brain is frazzled. We have all been there, right? Please tell me you have been there too?!? My kids are back in school and we we are in full swing with all the extras. My kids love all the extras and most days I do to, most days. But today I am trying to sort through getting all the kids to all the places, because today all four kids have something after school. Thankfully I have help in the wings from friends and other parents.

Today is a day where I know I need to breathe. Tonight I will unwind with a book, my favorite way to end the day. But I also know getting a workout in this morning will help me focus and feel a bit more ready to attack the day. As I was trying to decide what I wanted to do this morning I got a text asking me to sub a treadmill class. Yay! The bonus to a class on a busy day is that it forces me to focus on class and go for an allotted amount of time. There is no finishing early because my phone keeps ringing or because my brain won't stop telling me all the things I should be doing.

A few reminders before we get to the workout:

 -Always take the time to warm up and cool down, your body will thank you. 

-Your warm up time is used to get up to your base pace, this is a pace that you will work all of your speed off of. Your base pace is a pace that you could maintain for an hour or more, it should be a solid effort but not too hard. 

-All of your recoveries will be half of whatever the push was. This means; if you pushed for 4 minutes you need to recover for 2 minutes. This should still be moving.

-Adjust if needed. You aren't married to your base pace, if you are struggling getting the push done slow it down a bit. On the other side of that, if you are finishing with ease you need to pick up a notch.

With all of that being said, let's get to the workout!

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Love Always, Nichole, Ruthie, & Madeliene