power balls

Look, I know you will find this hard to believe, especially if you know me in real life and are aware of what I look like, but I actually have a crazy, healthy diet.  Breakfast is overnight oats with chia seeds, spirulina & raspberries.  Lunch is a chicken salad and lately that's been dinner as well.  If I need a snack in between each meal, I'll grab a piece of fruit or eat a couple of these really tasty power ball thingys.  

But thanks to a very nasty case of hypothyroidism (under active thyroid) shifting any excess weight is proving to be a very difficult, if not impossible task.  It's hardcore depressing, especially when I have such a healthy lifestyle but everyone's got something to battle in their life and this just happens to my thing.  Anyho, enough with the whinging.  Here's the recipe I created for these power balls.  Which isn't a great name but it's all I could come up with.  Anyone else got a better suggestion?

ingredients:

1 cup uncooked rolled oats

1/2 cup mixed nuts 

(I use almonds, sunflower seeds, chia seeds, cashews & walnuts...all raw & unsalted)

1 teaspoon raw cocao powder

1 tablespoon goji berries

6-8 dates (seed removed)

method:

Put your oats, nuts, cocao powder & goji berries in a food processor or blender and whiz until it looks like a powder.  Add the dates, one at a time, whizzing after each one is added.  Remove the mixture from your food processor and place in a bowl.  Add a little water (1-2 tablespoons) and using your hands, mould the mixture until a dough forms.  Roll into balls and refrigerate.  Store in an air tight container in your fridge until they're all gone!