Food | Healthy Recipes For Autumn

Autumn is officially here! I cannot tell you how excited I am that it's autumn, basically the best season for getting back into baking and making new things in the kitchen. The team at Erbology kindly sent out a package full of healthy products for me to try and make some goodies with. So this blog post will include a few products from their website which I will include in a few recipes. Scroll down to see what goodies we can make with Chia Powder, Almonds, Organic Bergamot Shots and Aronia Berry Energy Balls.

Fruit Smoothie with a Shot of Bergamot

Use a blender and add all of the below ingredients in:

• 1x chopped banana 
• A handful of chopped strawberries
• A glass of fruit juice (apple or pineapple or orange)
• A tablespoon of chia powder
• A couple of scoops of soya yoghurt (depending on how thick you like your smoothies - this is optional)
• 1x Bergamot shot

This is one way of getting in your fruit and a shot of bergamot.

Orange & Carrot smoothie with Energy Balls

I found a brilliant healthy recipe on the Erbology website that themselves recommend when using the energy balls in smoothies:

• Half a cup of oat/almond milk 
• Half a cup of chopped carrots
• 1x tbsp chopped ginger
• 1x banana
• 1x orange
• 1 pack of Erbology energy balls
• Top with a third of a teaspoon of chia seeds

You can of course just have these energy balls as a snack on their own.

Honey & Cinnamon Roasted Almonds

Preheat the oven at 180 degrees or Gas Mark 4.

• 2 cups raw almonds
• 1 tbsp olive oil
• 1 tbsp honey or maple syrup
• 1 tsp ground cinnamon
• half tsp salt

In a mixing bowl or small bowl, add all the ingredients and stir together until all the almonds are coated. Can you smell the cinnamon? Good right?

Spread the almonds out on a baking tray, maybe use grease proof paper for this. Make sure they are all spread out and not on top of each other.

Bake in the oven for 10-12 minutes until the almonds are toasted and fragrant. Don't burn them like I did as I had the oven too high...whoops!

Let them cool a little and serve, or add them to pots for later on. They should last in the fridge in a plastic box for around 3-5 days.

This is a good little healthy snack to have and to add into a little plastic tub to take to work with you if you want to have a sweet treat without having to have a chocolate bar or something. But melting chocolate over these almonds is also a good idea. Thank me later...

Do you enjoy making healthy snacks? There's so many different ways you could use these ingredients, maybe in baking, like almond butter cookies - awesome by the way. Let me know if your enjoying the recipes I've been posting on my blog and if there's anything else you'd like to see.

*The items mentioned by Erbology were sent as PR samples for me to review. All opinions are my own, open and honest. Please refer to my disclaimer for more information.*