It's All About Fall

Fall has officially begun, the other day marked the fall equinox and all you seem to see are fall foods. I LOVE fall. I love the food, the weather and especially fall fashion. Anyways,  Pumpkin spice lattes, pumpkin spice M&M’s, pumpkin donuts, candy corn, orange sugar cookies are all over the stores. My weakness is my mom’s pumpkin bars with cream cheese frosting. I only have them once or twice a year and when I do eat them, the whole pan is gone within a day or two thanks to me. I’ve been trying to clean up my diet lately so instead of making pumpkin bars and drinking sugary “coffee” drinks, I’ve decided to take a different approach to fall eating. I have a recipe for 35 calorie pumpkin pie that I absolutely love! All it really has in it is a can of pumpkin, an egg, some almond milk, vanilla, stevia and spices. It’s super healthy because it’s packed full of vitamins, really low in carbs because there isn’t a crust and it has no added sugar because stevia is used in place of sugar. It tastes amazing with some fat free Redi Whip! Another one of my favorite recipes are pumpkin bars that are made with a thin layer of graham cracker crust and the pumpkin filling is a can of pumpkin, garbanzo beans and a few other ingredients. This is also a really delicious and healthy recipe I got from a youtuber I watch named SarahFit. (I’ll link all of my favorite recipes at the end of this post) As far as homemade recipes go, I’ve come up with pumpkin spice greek yogurt that I love to dip apple slices in. I add nonfat plain greek yogurt, pure pumkin, almond milk, stevia, vanilla, cinnamon and pumpkin pie spice into a bowl and mix it all together and it’s amazing! Lastly, I’ve really been obsessed with making warm cinnamon apples. I slice up some apples and add some water to a saucepan to medium heat, coat the apples in stevia and cinnamon and cook them for about 10 minutes and top them with a bit of whipped cream. It’s so much healthier than using regular sugar and butter in the basic recipes. I love fall and of course have a pumpkin bar or orange sugar cookie here and there but I also really love to take unhealthy recipes and health-ifying them up to make them my own! (420)