Banana and Peanut Butter Sandwich

INGREDIENTS:

Banana

Peanut Butter 

Two slices of bread

Butter knife

DIRECTIONS:
1. First, place the two pieces of bread on a napkin or plate. Face the side up that you wish to be the middle.
2. Second, grab your knife and spread some peanut butter on each side, preferably an equal amount on each slice.
3. Peel the banana and CAREFULLY slice up the banana into equal pieces. Don't cut yourself! Slice it the thick way, not the long way, so that it makes little cylinders of banana. Also shown in the picture to the right.



4. Place the banana slices
(or cylinders, whatever you want to call therm) onto the bread evenly.
5. You can eat any of the extra banana slices that are left over like I do! Yummy bananas(:

6. And FINALLY, you place the other slice of bread that has only the peanut butter on it over the one with bananas and Enjoy!

REFLECTION:

I tend to eat this snack right after school before I have swim practice. It is extremely simple to make, the simplest yet of all my recipes, and is extremely quick as well. Instead of waiting for your food to prepare, impatient from not eating all day, it will be done within minutes. Plus, it is not expensive at all! Also, it is healthy so it doesn't upset my stomach before or during swim. It is a good 'snack' before any sport and will not leave you still hungry! I have also eaten it for breakfast, just changing a little bit of the directions. I just toast the bread! Also, you can exchange the bananas for peanut butter and it will still be delicioso!! Hope you enjoy this quick and easy snack and begin to eat it a lot! Enjoy(:

Peanut Butter-Banana Spirals

My post today is based on the website Cooking Light (http://goo.gl/1SWavml). Part of my New Year's resolution was to begin to eat healthy, and this website has helped in many ways. This website includes just about 80 different healthy, and delicious, snacks. I, like about every other kid, am hungry when I come home from school. I usually ate a large meal that would fill me because I hadn't eaten all day. But, now that it is important to eat breakfast every single day and to eat at every meal, and if hungry in between, to eat small healthy snacks. These recipes that the website has included have allowed me to always have a different variety of healthy snacks during and after school! I will never get sick of having one thing for too long(:

INGREDIENTS:

1/2 cup reduced-fat peanut butter

1/3 cup vanilla low-fat yogurt

1 tablespoon orange juice

2 ripe bananas, sliced

4 (8-inch) fat-free flour tortillas

2 tablespoons honey-crunch wheat germ

1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon

DIRECTIONS:

Combine peanut butter and yogurt, stirring until smooth. Drizzle juice over bananas; toss gently to coat

Spread about 3 tablespoons of peanut butter mixture over each of the tortillas, leaving only a 1/2 inch border.                              http://goo.gl/WMUwyY

Arrange about 1/3 cup of banana slices in a single layer over the peanut butter mixture. Then, combine wheat germ and cinnamon; sprinkle evenly over the banana slices. Lastly, roll up the bananas and roll into 6 pieces and enjoy!