Breakfast: Cranberry Oatmeal Cookies

Recipe by Vera Kaltinick These organic cookies are filled with good-for-you ingredients — walnuts, oats, whole-wheat flour — and have no refined sugars.

This recipe includes fertility superfoods such as:

Barley, Cinnamon, Nuts, Walnuts

Health and fertility benefits of Cranberry Oatmeal Cookies

Barley is about the best grain a woman with PCOS can eat. It is low in calories and has the lowest GI of all grains. Low-GI grains such as barley take much longer to digest and create a slow, steady rise in blood glucose and insulin levels. As mentioned before on Fertility Chef, low-GI foods reduce cravings. If possible, try and find hulled barley as it is the most nutrient dense of all types of barley. Cinnamon is one of the best ingredients that someone with insulin sensitivity can eat. Half a teaspoon of cinnamon per day has been shown to be very effective at normalizing blood sugar levels. Cinnamon contains hydroxychalcone, which is thought to enhance the effects of insulin. It has also been suggested that Cinnamon prevents post-meal blood sugar spikes by slowing the gastric emptying rate - meaning that food digests slowly. (Reference: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11506060). Nuts are a natural source of Inositol, a derivative of Vitamin B (which is often prescribed in the form of supplements for women with PCOS). Inositol can effectively control the symptoms of PCOS by reducing insulin resistance and improving insulin sensitivity. Walnuts are low on the glycemic index. What’s more, they also lower the glycemic index of other foods that you eat in conjunction with these nuts. Any kind of nuts provide a healthy source of fat and a great way to encourage PCOS weight loss.

Ingredients

1 1/2 stick organic sweet butter
1 1/4 c. organic evaporated cane juice crystals
1 tsp. organic molasses
3 tbsp. organic barley syrup
3/4 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. kosher salt
2 tsp. organic ground cinnamon
1/4 tsp. organic ground ginger
1/4 tsp. organic ground nutmeg
1 tbsp. organic cider vinegar
1 tbsp. organic vanilla extract
1 large organic free range egg
1 1/3 c. organic old-fashioned rolled oats
1 1/4 c. organic whole-wheat flour
1 1/2 c. organic mixed dried fruit
1 c. organic walnuts

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Lightly grease two baking sheets or line with parchment paper.
Cream the butter, sugar, barley syrup, baking soda, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, vinegar, and vanilla. Beat in the egg. Add the oats, flour, dried fruits, and nuts. Stir to combine.
Drop the cookies by the tablespoon onto the baking sheet and shape them into rounds.
Bake the cookies for about 14 minutes, reversing the pans halfway through to ensure even cooking. They are done when the cookies begin to brown on the edges and the center is still very soft
Transfer cookies to a wire rack to cool.

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