Kristine’s Breakfast-On-The-Go No Bake Energy Nuggets

This is really simple, there are no set ingredients and no baking.  Use what you have on hand.  The only slightly labor intensive part is rolling them into balls and then in a coating or dusting of some sort.  I personally like to fuss with such things but probably they could be made by pressing the mix into a pan, chilling and then cutting it into bites.




Dry Ingredients: 

The Dried Stuff
Dried fruit falls somewhere between dry and gooey

Rolled Oats, Rye or Spelt

Ground Flax Seed
Whole Flax Seed
Sunflower Seeds
Chia Seed
Hemp Seed
Sesame Seed
Pumpkin Seed

Date pieces and
Other dried fruit like Raisins, Apricots,          Pomegranate, Cranberry, Goji Berries

Any kind of Nuts
Coconut
Chocolate Chips or other such ingredient
Bee Pollen



Gooey Ingredients: 

My Gooey Ingredients plus cocoa powder.
If  you like it more sweet,
add more dates and other gooey sweeteners.

Nutella
Coconut Oil
Honey
Tahini
Peanut Butter
Almond Butter
Cashew Butter
Agave Syrup
Brown Rice Syrup





Coating Ingredients: 

Rolling and Coating Ingredients 

Plain Cocoa Powder, then dusted with    powdered sugar
Orange or Lemon Sugar *
Lavender Sugar *
Ground Nuts
Ground Flax, Walnuts, Cocoa Powder & Sugar, ground fine
Cinnamon Sugar
Bee Pollen

* I make different flavored sugars by either infusing sugar with something like vanilla bean or lavender before grinding, or grinding up dried citrus peel with sugar into a fine powder.



HOW-TO:
Assemble your Dry Ingredients.  Pulse grains, seeds and nuts first in the blender until it’s a fairly fine grind, like a coarse meal.  Add in the dried fruit/chocolate chips and pulse to the right size bits and consistency.

Transfer to a bowl and add enough of whatever combination of Gooey Ingredients to make a soft dough.  It should be sticky enough that you can form little balls with it between your hands but not so gooey that your hands get full of it, or so dry that it falls apart.  Add more honey if the mix is very crumbly and make sure the grind is fine enough.

Roll into balls (about the size of 3 bites is good), then dip and roll in a Coating Mix of your choice. Chill on a cookie sheet, then transfer to a wax paper lined tin.

Walnuts drop freely in beautiful Mtn. Ranch Park each fall

It is very convenient to take a smaller tin containing 4 or 5 nuggets around with me to morning garden jobs, which is the reason I came up with these goodies.  I’m simply not able to eat much in the morning, but can work up a terrible appetite once out there on a job at someone’s house where I’m then too busy to eat.

The garden at Di Jackson's,
 one of my clients this year

I actually like to nibble and forage in the garden so it’s great to have something substantial to eat, made with high density nutrients.  Between popping one of these every so often, plus a banana or peach and a big jar of kombucha on ice, I am good to go for some hours until I get home and can sit down with a proper meal.


Later on this season when it's pepper time I hope to come up with some kind of gooey, somewhat fruity and chocolatey- with-hot pepper nugget recipe.

By the way I am available for free lance garden work on whatever basis, let me be your Garden Angel and help you turn your weed patch into Paradise.