Banana sandwiches with a seed butter of your choice and melted dark chocolate. Dip then chill.
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This looks to be as tasty as my New York Style Cheesecake Stuffed, Chocolate covered, graham cracker crumb rolled, Strawberries.
Probably a lot less fattening though.
It is tasty. You should try it
Healthy … idk if you understand the meaning of the word.
Calorie dense snacking? Sure.
Nutritionally complex, maybe.
Healthy? It’s a sugar bomb lmao
Bananas are moderate in sugar (14g per medium banana), dark chocolate is relatively low in sugar (5-30g per 100g, depending). Peanut butter is readily available without any added sugar.
Honestly, these seem to be closer to a “fat bomb” than a sugar bomb. If it were milk/white chocolate and the cheap, sugary PB you would have a point though.
I’m not sure you know the meaning of sugar bomb. A tiny bit of dark chocolate is not a real problem, even if you’re trying to actively lose weight, and PB and banana are recommended. So…
Less sugar than most of the “healthy snacks” I see my kids classmates having at school or see in the store at least!
Honestly I might have to make some of these for my own snacking because I really need calorie dense and nutritionally complex snacks right now
Are you fat?
So much insecurity in these comments, jesus christ. This must be like repressed gay people being the biggest anti-lgbt politicians. We get it, you’re fat and hate yourself. You don’t have to put down perfectly fine food to make yourself feel better.
😹 great comment. It’s crazy they decided to talk about calories to the extent they have.
Oh hell yeah. Loving the salt flakes too - they seem counter-intuitive but work really well.
Not healthy!!! You can defuse this macro bomb only by using low sugar chocolate and powder pb. Still a fancy banana
Uncultured dolts I swear. Organic raw dark chocolate brands seldom put high levels of sugar in. Who said this wasn’t a low sugar chocolate? Because it is.
Because everything is about me and I make decisions based on how much I love money so I buy the cheapest bulk bin chocolate chips unless restrained by the Macro Gods
Substitute with Nutella and marshmallows and we’re good!
My wife is very allergic to nuts and bananas, so yeah, she would need the substitute version.
so NUTella doesn’t have nuts in it?
Damn. You name two unhealthy things. Just to defeat the purpose. You people 🤢
How is seed butter any healthier than nutella? The calories are about the same, you just swapped out a few carbs for fats.
Nutella is made of chemicals and sugar and is an ultra processed food.
What does the word “chemical” mean?
Use a dictionary
Not op, but there are many ways to measure nutrition. Similarly, there are many definitions of “healthy”.
That said, processed sugar is rarely regarded as healthy or nutritious.
ETA: Related, the makers of Nutella were sued for claiming it was healthy.
Looks great, healthy it is not
Looks tasty, but very high in calories. Not sure healthy is the right word.
“Healthy” is sort of subjective, especially in an era where prepackaged snack cakes and cookies and all manner of processed foods are super common, and often far more available than fresh alternatives. Is this healthier than just eating a handful of spinach leaves or a bowl of riced cauliflower? Likely not. Is this healthier than opening a package oreos, saying you’ll have 2, and then eating the entire thing while binge watching something on Netflix? I have no idea. I assume so, maybe I’m wrong. But this take effort and time to make, so you’ll probably eat fewer of them, and not snack on them absent mindedly as you would with something that took zero effort to obtain. Plus, this looks like it tastes way better
Not so sure about that when I was making my own protein bars I would eat way more, because I had way more available to me at cheaper prices.
It doesn’t have high calories. Also High calorie foods can be healthy as calories have nothing to do with the healthiness of food. 😐
I lost about 50 lbs while having chocolate covered strawberries nearly every single night. I ate like 4-8 of them. 90-180 calories, which I budgeted for by skipping any form of snacking except sweets at night. And bananas and PB after a workout were common too, so I don’t see what the issue here is.
In the big picture, you made healthy choices that made you lose weight. That’s great!
You treated yourself to something that’s healthier than other sweets you could have chosen. Totally reasonable for the same reason a reasonable amount of dressing can be in a salad (makes things palatable so you’ll actually eat that healthy stuff)
But none of that makes chocolate-dipped strawberries a healthy option, just like a plate of buffalo wings and blue cheese isn’t healthy just because it’s served with a few carrot/celery sticks. There comes a point where the good is outweighed by the bad. Strawberries are pretty high sugar as it is, but being a whole fruit makes it overall a net good IMO (you get other vitamins and fiber and stuff). But that chocolate dip is pretty hard to seriously justify, and can tip the balance pretty easily.
I wish I could pin this comment. These little egos just don’t get it. I’m speaking in reality and they are speaking in fallacy. So they can’t understand my words.
You are delusional. And type of nut or seed butter is incredibly calorie dense from fats. And yes, when the obesity rate is 40%, calories are absolutely the single most important metric for health.
Stop eating JUNK food
Sorry you got dog piled op. No way you could’ve known these folks were using healthy as a stand-in for low calorie.
If they want to cry about calories. Then they can do that. Smart people that are interested will just make the snack lol
Impressive thinking. I wonder what you consider High Calorie food.
Calories are energy. When more calories are taken in than burned off, that surplus is stored. Unhealthiness is largely linked to weight in this day and age.
Now yes, there’s a huge difference between 600 calories of ice cream and 600 calories of a well-balanced salad. But going to the original post, chocolate and nut butter is not exactly a health food or else I’d be at my healthiest from all the Reese’s cups I avoided handing out to kids at Halloween (they can have the Milk Duds). Adding banana certainly helps, but is there enough there to turn the whole package into something “healthy”? I have my doubts.
How dare you slander the duds like that!
How many calories does it have? Banana, peanut (or cashew or almond etc.) butter and chocolate are all high cal foods. So mixing them is unlikely to be low cal
As for your second point, I agree 100%. There’s an entire discussion to be had about the nuance. I think the most important thing is not assuming that low cal foods are healthy in any way, and also not assuming that healthy foods would be low cal. Basically just two separate concepts, sometimes they overlap sometimes not
False, eating too many calories leads to weight issues that are hard on the body. If you’re eating things loaded with sugar and calories all the time you’re going to have to exercise a lot or you’re gonna have a bad time.
It DOES look good, but healthy is a bit of a misleading title.
My guess… That’s about 80-90 cals per bite, and it’s a high glycemic index treat. 1-2 might be good pre lifting session, or 2-3 post workout combined with another carb and protein source. But definitely more on the treat side than healthy food side. It looks delicious though!
B-b-but it’s got fruit in it!
My mom used to make basically this, but she would use one banana slice and one Ritz cracker. Sometimes peanut butter, sometimes almond butter. So. Freaking. Amazing.
That looks great.
😋 riiiight!
Im inspired to try this, with some changes:
- thinner banana slices (but still hold their shape)
- a thinner layer of nut butter
- fully-dipped in chocolate, and laid flat on the tray
Im biased towards the chocolate, and by thinning the layers, I think its possible to call this a cookie.
How bout Nilla Wafer with a schmear of nut butter and banana on top then dipped in chocolate?
I like it
I want to go to there.
Calm down, Lemon.
This would be kick ass with a healthy sprinkle of bacon on them.
And maybe some cheese.
Feed this sugar bomb to the preschoolers whose parents are late picking them up. Either you’ll have so much help running around picking up all the toys and hurling them into the big bin, or the parents who finally arrive will get what they deserve.
Nah there’s not enough sugar there to noticably impact kids behavior or bellies. It’s basically just a peanut butter banana sandwich with a dash of chocolate, which is downright health food for 5 year olds.
If you really want to punish parents go for one of the “snacks” my MIL gave the kids: captain crunch cereal covered in frosting. I took one bite and the sugar concentration was enough to upset my stomach and leave me feeling very unhappy from the sugar spike and crash
Ah you see the bananananas and Skippy and chocolate give a more sustained release of energy so the toddlers don’t crash and burn, they’re just happyhappyhappy! As long as they have freedom to move around, they can be channeled into good or at least harmless activity. Belt them into a carseat, however, and it fuels their frustration to keep the tantrum going all the way home.
I agree that it’s not unhealthy for kids like it would be for an older more sedentary person.
Sugar high is a long busted myth.
Ehhh depends on the kids. For kids on the spectrum or with ADHD there is actually growing body of evidence and anecdata showing a strong link between sugar and poor behavior
I’d like to see that info. I’m ADHD and, anecdatally, only experience weight gain from excess sugar. No high, no crash. Poor behavior? Well I was going to do that anyway.
