[2 Smart Point] Breakfast Cookies

I made breakfast cookies today.

The best part? They're only two smart points, so I can enjoy them while doing Weight Watchers!

I was looking for breakfast alternatives to Pop-Tarts. Not that I have anything against the pastries or brand, but my boyfriend eats them almost every day, and I think a little variety would be good for him.

Someone on Facebook recommended breakfast cookies.

I'd never heard of them before, so I hopped on over to Pinterest and saw so many different varieties of wholesome cookies that could be eaten as a breakfast food!

I decided to personalize the idea of breakfast cookies to match the ingredient I have.

One big change was the use of liquid stevia instead of sugar.

This was because my dad had just given me some liquid stevia for my birthday. 

Did you know this magical stuff has no calories or fat or carbs in it?

It's also a 0 smart point sweetener on the Weight Watchers diet, which is awesome!

The other big change was using Nutella instead of peanut butter.

But doesn't nutella have a lot of fat and sugar?

Yes, but I had four jars of it before I started Weight Watchers and I've been trying to find a healthy-ish way to use it.

Also, I didn't have any peanut butter.

Long Story Short: I was looking for fun breakfast food for my boyfriend but, after some tweaking and personalizing, I found myself with breakfast cookies that are actually healthy enough for me to enjoy as well!

Lydia's 2SP Breakfast Cookies

Makes 24 medium-large breakfast cookies

Ingredients:

1/2 cup unsweetened applesauce

1 egg

1 banana

4 tsp liquid stevia

2 tbsp Nutella

2 tsp ground cinnamon

1 tsp baking sida

1 cup flour

2 cups old fashioned oats

1/2 cup semisweet chocolate chips

Instructions:

Preheat the oven to 350.

Mash the bananas in the bowl, then mix in the applesauce, egg, stevia and Nutella until fully combined.

Add in the flour, baking soda and cinnamon, then fold in the oats and chocolate chips.

Roll or drop cookie dough onto baking sheets in the size you want. They don't spread, so you can put them fairly close together.

Bake for 7 minutes for small cookies or 10 minutes for large cookies. Let cool on baking sheets, then you can eat some now and store the remainder in the fridge or freezer for future breakfasts.



Hope you enjoy!
The Purple Writer

Free Star Wars Office Decorations

I love Star Wars.

I love a variety of shows, but Star Wars will always be one of my favorites.  Who better, then, to plan a Star Wars party for my company on this May the 4th?

I created several designs, including food cards and a Jedi training quiz, that you can check out in this blog post.

This post is dedicated to collecting some of the amazing & free Star Wars images and posters that I found on Pinterest to decorate my office.

To start off with, I absolutely adore these posters put together by Samantha Ranlet. 

You should definitely check out her blog and download the free posters: link. 

They're clever and iconic, and even my coworkers who couldn't care less about Star Wars enjoyed seeing these posters pop up around the office.

I also downloaded the icons for free here and used them for my potluck food cards.

This bold Star Wars-themed Keep Calm poster has stayed on our walls for over a month since our office's May the 4th party. 

When people get upset, we direct their attention to Darth Vader and his Jedi advice.

This design is a free printable from Digital Mom Blog. 

She also has some star wars facts, kids costume ideas, and links to other Star Wars blog posts.

 Check it out here.

Now, I've seen this poster all over the internet, not to mention at game stores and college campuses, so I don't know who to attribute this to.

Whoever it was, they know their fandoms and made an adorable poster.

The wookies didn't last more than about an hour once I put them on the wall, so I had to print out the poster two more times that day.

Just do a Google search and you too can provide wookies for your lonely friends.

Now, it may seem a little strange, but I've actually been printing off lunch box jokes and giving them to my coworkers for the past couple months. 

Why?

Because I like to give them a joke/pun on Mondays to help their weeks start out with a little laugh.

Also, lunch box jokes generally have the cutest illustrations and are the perfect size to cut out and put on someone's desk.

For the week of the Star Wars party, I printed out these free Star Wars lunch box jokes by Kristen Duke, and they were a huge hit!

There are also several other themed lunch box jokes on her blog, so whether you have kids with lunch boxes or adults who enjoy puns, you should head to this post.

For the actual party, we used these Yoda Soda and Darth Pop soda labels.

They're free, they're clever, they perfectly cover up the label underneath, and they use the Force to make the soda inside have 0 caleries!

If you want to hold a Star Wars party, you should absolutely hop over to the May the Fourth Be With You Party Blog. 

Spreading the Star Wars love,

The Purple Writer

Star Wars Party!

This spring, I was asked me to plan a Star Wars party for our company. 

This was the perfect project for me and I had a blast!

I hopped right onto Pinterest and into Photoshop to find and create designs that could help spread my enthusiasm for Star across our two Texas offices.

I'll add a post later with some of the images/posters by other people that I came across and printed off to decorate the Plano office I work in. 

This post, however, is all about the fun designs I made for the event!

The first steps to hosting a potluck are to invite people and have them agree to bring food.

I found all the adorable/fantastic images I used as backgrounds for this event on Unsplash.

I love the variety of amazing quality photographs that can be found on Unsplash. 

(Bonus points for Unsplash's great copyright rules which mean these photos can be used for anything!)

Check out the people who made these awesome images: Ciprian Boiciuc, Daniel Cheung & James Pond.

Once everyone has put down the dish they'll bring, it's time to make some food cards!

(I sent a list of Star-Wars inspired foods to my coworkers, but some of them made me proud with their own creations.)

I downloaded these super cute Star Wars icons here. 

So now I had invited everyone, had the food ready to go, and just needed another element - Star Wars activities!

I had basic cards with character/item names (Darth Vader, lightsaber, pod racer, etc.) and everyone had to act out or describe the card they drew. 

Since several of my co-workers hadn't watched Star Wars, this turned into more of a team cooperation game, but everyone had fun.

My favorite design of the event, however, was my Star Wars quiz! 

I used Google to find some different questions/answers and then made it all fit into a format on top of beautiful background images from Unsplash.

If you'd like the PDF or editable Word document of this quiz, the PSD file of the food cards, or the word document for the sign-up sheet, just shoot me a message or email, and I'd be more than happy to send them your way.

My new motto is: The more Star Wars parties, the better!

Print/Download my free Star Wars stuff:

Star Wars Food Tents

Star Wars Potluck Sign-Up

Star Wars Charades

Star Wars Quiz

Loving the Star Wars enthusiasm,

The Purple Writer