new years and nectarines
It’s stone fruit season here. All those glorious gems – apricots, peaches, plums – and my personal favourite, nectarines. I went a little crazy and bought far too many of the latter….. my dehydrator has been running constantly, and my jars have been filling up with sweet sweet fruity jewels.
Sorry to disappoint, but I have no exciting tale of my planned New Year’s Eve’s adventures, or a list of melodramatic achievements I wish to pursue next year. Honestly, I don’t understand the hoo-ha that goes along with New Years – especially the whole resolution thing. It’s a grand idea to set goals and have aspirations, of course, but I don’t need a shiny new year to do that. All I can say on the subject of New Years is I am blessed to be here for another one. I hope you all enjoy your celebrations, nonetheless – I think I will go to bed and enjoy the extra hours sleep and lack of a hangover tomorrow.
Misty is on another one of his “I will only eat if it is a liquid in a bottle, therefore I shall not eat, but DRINK,” kicks. In an attempt to get something solid in his system, I whizzed up some little fruity truffles – all the goodness of breakfast in ball form. I know most of you won’t be in the midst of stone fruit season – if you don’t have access to dried nectarines, dried peaches or apricots would be lovely as well.
Breakfast Bites
(Vegan, nut, soy, wheat free, refined sugar free)
- 1C dried nectarinej
- 20 soft pitted dates
- 3/4C quick oats
- 1/2C flax seed meal
- 2T liquid coconut oil
- 1/2t cinnamon
- 1t vanilla extract
- 1/4t sea salt
- Pulse everything together until a soft dough is formed.
- Roll into balls and chill in the fridge until firm.
- Store in the fridge.
Although the first few offers were stashed inside unsuspecting toys….
…..these balls were finally pronounced “Oh Yum!”
Tell me about YOUR exciting NYE plans as I don’t have any. Maybe I can live vicariously through the tales of others?
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Vegan. Stay at home Mum of Misty. Yoga teacher in training. Passionate about REAL food - creating it, eating it, sharing it. I can never stick to a recipe.
Love the secret stashing! My boy is a fan of this game also!
I absolutely concur with yor New Years sentiments. Sleep is my best friend. I’m nt sure I’ve seen a new year roll over for a number if years now. Old well before my time! Those truffles look good – may just do something similar for Te poppet and see if I can coax him into at least tasting it!
Happy new year!
Yes, Misty is being very funny with his food lately…. smoothies and balls are my saviours! Since Viper has been home over the holidays I have done SO MUCH sleeping, it’s pure bliss – I love sleep so much.
Happy New Year to you guys too
x
These balls look lovely
I hate celebrating NY in the traditional style – being up to midnight would, to me, ruin the new year before it has even started! – but love the reflecting / goal setting aspect. I pretty much take any chance to review and structure and goal set, so NY is one of many opportunities
For me, though, an ideal New Year’s Eve would be a quiet, relaxed evening, bed well before 12am, and then waking up early refreshed and ready for the next year. In that regard, we will be doing the same thing – and happy New Year to you as you do it!
Your ideal NYE sounds very similar to mine – a hangover with a toddler is NOT a nice option
We had leftovers and will probably watch a DVD and go to bed with a book!
That sounds really good!!
Hahaha “Oh yum!” He is too cute. I want some of those ballsss!! I am going to have a boring, calm, stay at home new years! YAHOO!! I am with you on the resolutions too..the only things I set are goals in the form of the entire year. For example last year my goal of the year was to run a half marathon. This year, I’d like to do four.
Oh wow, and I’m sure you WILL complete 4 halvies – that’s such a great goal
Hope you enjoyed your relaxing NYE – I am SO glad I am not hungover this morning!
these balls look great. It is def NOT stone fruit season here haha, but I do have a pretty good stash of dried apricots so I’m gonna test out this recipe with those
I am sick (weird pretty nasty case of vertigo/sinus stuffiness) so I am planning on spending my evening on the couch with a LARGE bowl of soup and watch the festivities on tv
. Not our original plans, but sounds ok all things considered. Good news is Nana is taking Holden for the night so I can get some rest in. I am sure I will be thankful for that tomorrow!!
Yeah I reckon apricots would be lovely in these
I hope you get better SOON – rest up – a night off Mama duties will do you the world of good I’m sure!
Amen sisterfriend. I am exactly with you on this.
I knew you would be!
those look like healthy bites! more reason for you to move here and help me!!!
happy New Year!
Or YOU bring Healthy Bites Down Under?!? Happy New Year
My NYE is all over my blog, you’ve seen it already. We never do anything, but this year Jases parents bought a campervan and we swiped it for an overnighter. It was a rare occasion to just get away as a couple: we hardly ever do that, and it was awesomeness. My new year is starting with a big food prep.. which is what happens every week anyway. Nut cheese, sauerkraut, buckwheat sprouting, check what’s happening in the garden.. all of that’s going on. Happy New Year to you Lou!
Your NY looked AWESOME! Very jealous of camper-van-missions! Especially up that way