Recipe Name Oatmeal, Banana and Date Cookies Submitted by curlew Recipe Description No flour or eggs - much less sugar and fat. Other options: Add cocoa powder to the bananas; vary the fruits or nuts used in the cookies, and/or add seeds. The cherries and dates are sweetened, but I did not find a way to enter sweetened dried fruit in the recipe, so I added some sugar to the recipe to estimate the nutritional components. Quantity 45 Quantity Unit cookie sheet Prep Time (minutes) 20 Cook Time (minutes) 25 Ready In (minutes) 45

Ingredients Amount Measure Ingredient 3 medium (7" to 7-7/8" long) banana, mashed 1 cup, pitted, chopped Dates, dry 1/2 cup, chopped walnut halves, roughly chopped 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1 cup cherries, dried 1 cup coconut, flaked, sweetened 1 cup chocolate chips, semi sweet, Ghirardelli 2 cups oatmeal-old fashioned rolled 1/2 cup ground flax seed meal 1/2 teaspoon sugar, dark brown packed sugar Steps Sequence Step 1 Mash bananas with the salt and vanilla 2 Mix banana mixture well with all other ingredients but the oats. NOTE: Do NOT add the brown sugar - including it in the recipe is my attempt to make up for the fact that I could not find sweetened dates or cherries to include in the recipe. 108 grams of sugar added to each of the fruits seems to translate to .22 teaspoons of sugar each. 3 Add the oats and mix well. 4 Firmly press mixture to tablespoon to form cookie and place on cookie sheet - they can be placed close to each other because they do not expand. I use a glass cookie sheet. 5 Bake at 350 for 25 minutes. 6 Let cool completely, the use a metal spatula to gently remove from pan.