Snacks

Category: Snacks

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Lacto-Fermented Carrot Sticks (gut-healing probiotic snack for kids!)

A chutney is the perfect way to get started with fermenting because it's easy to make and delicious. To help you dive in -- and use up the fruits you're likely bringing in by the boxload or bucketful -- we pulled together this collection of lacto-fermented fruit and chutney recipes. Enjoy!

25 Fermented Fruit & Chutney Recipes

My family are huge fans of my homemade salsa, bean dip, and pesto -- which are all lacto-fermented. As I put together this round-up of 50 amazingly healthy and colorful fermented salsas, dips, and spreads, my eyes were opened to all the ways I can add even more beneficial bacteria into our foods... and probably without anyone noticing. ;)

50 Fermented Salsas, Dips, and Spreads

These are NOT the vinegar pickles you find in the store! Once pickled, there's an explosion of vitamins, enzymes, probiotics, beneficial acids, and most importantly... a delicious crunch! And I make them in one of my favorite kitchen tools -- a fermenting crock from Ohio Stoneware!

Old-Fashioned, Crunchy, Fermented Garlic-Dill Pickles

Is it possible to make thick raw milk yogurt in the Instant Pot? In other words... can you skip the pasteurizing step, retaining all the raw goodness of your milk, and still end up with thick yogurt? Find out here!

Raw Milk Yogurt {Instant Pot}

5-Spice Apple Chutney {lacto-fermented} | Kicked up with the Chinese 5-Spice Blend, lacto-fermented apple chutney has been rocking our house lately. I can't keep enough of it on hand for the kids. They love to put a scoop of it in a bowl of kefir. We just went through 1/2 gallon of it in 3 days -- and that was with me telling them not to take so much! | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

5-Spice Apple Chutney {lacto-fermented!}

What's the best part of making your own soft cheese from raw milk? Raw milk contains probiotics of course! Raw milk left to sit out and get warm means those probiotics are proliferating. This raw milk mascarpone is teeming with living flora. It's an indulgent, tasty health food that you can enjoy in both sweet and savory dishes!

How to Make Raw Milk Mascarpone: Soft, Probiotic Cheese

Over 100 people asked me to share my recipe for homemade Trim Healthy Mama-friendly cottage cheese! (Pssst! It's *not really* cottage cheese!) It's wayyyyy easier than traditional homemade cottage cheese and wayyyyy cheaper than the best cultured store-bought cottage cheese! Goes great with either S or E meals and snacks!

Trim Healthy Mama Fuel Pull Cottage Cheese {homemade}

Enzyme-Rich Homemade Larabars | I've dreamed for a long time of making homemade Larabars. Yet I put it off, and put it off, till this week I read about foods that are excellent sources of digestive enzymes. That inspired me to dive in! It just so happens that 2 of the key ingredients in Larabars -- dates and nuts -- fit into the "excellent sources of digestive enzymes" category! I use soaked and dehydrated nuts in these homemade Larabars, making them a digestive enzyme-rich food! | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Enzyme-Rich Homemade Larabars (Paleo, Whole30)

Allergy-Friendly Cookies {1 Dough, 16+ Variations!} | Allergy-friendly cookies? Introducing your one-stop shop! Now you can make 1 basic dough and turn it into 16+ kinds of delicious, nourishing, and uniquely different cookies. How fun is that!? | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Allergy-Friendly Cookies {1 Dough, 16+ Variations!}

almond cookies on cooling rack

Easy Almond Cookies

Close-up shot of a double chocolate chip cookie broken in two to show the soft texture.

Paleo Double Chocolate Chip Cookies (Grain-Free, Dairy-Free, Nut-Free)

Soaked Buttermilk Biscuits

Soaked Buttermilk Biscuits

Soaked Pumpkin Bread | Spiced baked goods and warm tea fit the turning weather here in Oregon. I like the cozy, sheltered feel of the clouds and enjoying warming dishes again, like this pumpkin bread that's made with spelt and soaked for maximum digestion and nutrition. | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Soaked Pumpkin Bread

Jerky strips.

Homemade Jerky (ground or muscle meat, beef or venison!)

"Please make them crunchy!" said my husband...when he asked me to make him this treat he really loves. The jury is definitely *not* out on these chocolate covered almonds. They are fabulous! This recipe is a win-win-win. Yummy, healthier than any you could buy, and super crunchy!

Sea Salt & Dark Chocolate Covered Almonds {Super Crunchy!}

Chocolate-Covered Raspberry No-Bake Cookie Bites | No bake? Check. So easy a kid could do it? Check. Healthy, real food ingredients? Check. Allergy-friendly? Check. Only one appliance? Check. Just a couple dirty dishes? Check. Delicious? That, too! I've been so excited to bring you this recipe! | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

No-Bake Chocolate-Covered Raspberry Cookie Bites

With just 4 ingredients and no baking required, you can whip up batch after batch of these Allergy-Friendly White Chocolate Peppermint Snowballs with very little time and effort. They're grain-free, nut-free, dairy-free, egg-free, soy-free, and peanut-free! Just be sure to make plenty... You wouldn't want a snowball fight! ;)

Allergy-Friendly White Chocolate Peppermint Snowballs {4 ingredients & no-bake!}