How to be a toned, lean health machine [try this tasty protein treat!]

Here’s how to be a toned, lean health machine. Peanut butter is a great source of protein, good fats and heart healthy benefits – if consumed in the correct amounts and sourced properly {e.g., organic ground peanuts – not the sugary stuff!}. Also, protein-rich foods aid with feeling full, sustaining energy, muscle building and recover and more! It is potassium and magnesium rich as well, which aid in bone and muscle health. Vitamins B6 [and immune booster] and E [an antioxidant] are also found in peanuts and peanut butter.

Want to know how to be a toned, lean health machine? Here is an easy, delicious summer recipe you can make with your kids or for yourself. Freeze them and they travel great – if they last that long!

Peanut-butter protein balls

Wet ingredients:

• 1 tbsp honey
• 1/4 cup peanut butter
• 1/2 cup unsweetened almond milk
• 1/2 cup PB2 (with the 1/4 cup water of course)

Dry ingredients:

• 1/2 cup rolled oats
• 3 scoops chocolate protein powder
• 1/2 cup walnuts {1/4 cup chopped}
• 1/4 cup peanuts
• 2tbsp date sugar
• 8 chopped up sugar free chocolate almonds or…my favorite (Lilly’s dark chocolate almond sweetened with Stevia, 1 serving)

Directions:

Put pb2 in bowl first with a tad extra cold water then add honey and stir. Then add peanut butter and stir.

Set aside.

Put all dry ingredients in separate bowl. Also put all nuts, even the chocolate ones, in a food processor to chop finely.

Mix all ingredients together and make 17-20 ping-pong size balls and put in refrigerator. When cold they’re perfect!

Enjoy!

*Alana Mears is a crazy-person and too over-the-top into nutrition and training. She is the toughest trainer I ever met and must be good since she trains pro athletes, college kids, body builders, cops, and me – her brother-in-law. :p