Darren is the most typical college guy ever. His apartment is always a mess, and he never has any food. I mean, I know it’s too much to ask for the healthy (and expensive-shoutout to mom for putting up with my expensive dietary staples like almond milk, organic apples, and pounds of butter to support my baking habit) foods I eat on a daily basis. But, is it really too much to ask for any food at all? I think not. I starve at Darren’s apartment. I have to prepare for a long period of famine before I come over to his apartment. That’s where my banana pancake breakfast comes in.
I’m seriously obsessed with banana pancakes! They are so good! Normally I top them with straight up peanut butter. Today though, I made a fancy two ingredient peanut butter banana butter. I bet you can’t guess what the two ingredients are. Now onto photos and recipes…
Banana Pancakes
adapted from chocolatecoveredkatie.com
serves 2
- 2/3 cup flour (I used whole wheat)
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 1 ripe banana, mashed
- 3/4 cup milk (I used almond milk, but you can use dairy)
- dash of salt
Mix the dry ingredients together. In a separate bowl, mash the banana and then add the other liquid ingredients. Stir the dry into the wet. Cook pancakes in pan or on griddle.
PB banana butter
via chocolatecoveredkatie.com
- 1 medium banana
- 2 to 4 tablespoons peanut butter, depending on how pb-y you like it (or almond, cashew, walnut butter, etc.)
Procedure: Whir the two ingredients in your food processor or blender until smooth. Leftovers can be stored in the fridge. (If possible, it’s best to let the mixture sit for a few hours before enjoying, as the taste becomes more robust with time.)
XOXO,
Jamie
This sounds delicious! But I’m sort of usually afraid of using peanut butter in my food; can’t help but count the calories. I know it’s good for my body to eat bits of different things, and natural peanut butter is also full of important nutrients to my body…but I just can’t help feeling guilty. Could you give me an advice on how you dealt with these kind of thoughts? :S
Peanut butter was definitely one of my major fear foods. I haven’t completely explained my journey to food acceptance yet. When I first started “recovery” and my mom was making sure I ate enough food, I still needed food as a coping mechanism. I started binging, and then once I was at a normal body weight, I started binging and purging. I basically just reached a breaking point where I realized I couldn’t let food control my life. Instead of restricting foods, I started letting myself eat whatever I wanted. This was extremely scary for me, as I’m sure you can imagine. So for the first week or so, eating whatever I wanted meant sometimes I would have an ice cream sundae for lunch and I had dessert with most meals because that’s what I wanted. That’s what I’d been depriving myself for a long time. It was hard to let myself eat that way, but I knew I had to stick with it. After a couple weeks I stopped needing dessert at every meal because I knew that I would always allow myself dessert whenever I wanted it. Dessert would always be there for the next meal, and for the next meal after that if I wanted it. Because of this newfound trust I had in my ability to let myself have dessert (or any fear food), I stopped craving it so much. It stopped having such control over my life. As for counting calories, that’s a tough habit to break. Honestly, sometimes I still find myself laying in bed recounting the day’s calories. However, the longer I let myself eat exactly what I want, the less I find myself counting. If I do count though, I just tell myself that the number doesn’t matter because I ate exactly what I wanted. In doing so, I took really good care of myself which is exactly what I should do. I hope this helps
Thank you so much for such an insightful advice. I really can’t help but count the calories over and over again in my head all the time, but just like you said, I guess it might help if I tell myself that I need to allow myself to eat what my body craves for in order to head towards true recovery. I have so much fear when I think about food, and the way I just can’t help it makes me think about it ever more. Just like you did, I will try to love myself a little bit more and do what I know my body deserves, instead of pushing it through so much pain. I know I’m gradually recovering, and with inspirations like you, I know I can keep it up and continue. Although I sometimes let myself slip and go back to my disorganised eating habits, I guess I am moving forwards overall, however small those steps may be. Once again, thank you so much for sharing about your life with me. This will be a huge motivation for me to keep moving forwards