After School Snacks: Banana Splits

We've been spending some time making healthy snacks from ingredients we already have at home.  Some of the things we almost always have on hand are bananas, raw almond butter & shredded coconut flakes.  So, I thought I'd suprise the boys with something special.

Now, the pictures just don't do this special treat justice!  When I was taking pictures Taylor said "I wish you could get "smell" into a picture".  And Matthew piped up, "I wish you could put "taste" in a picture".

The first step is to split the bananas in half and then slather each half with raw almond butter.  Note the tray the bananas are on... that is a dehyrator tray from an Excaliber dehydrator (more on that in upcoming blogs).  I wanted this snack to be warm and yummy, but still raw (with enzymes still intact), so I dehydrated on 110 for a few hours (anything over 115 begins destroying enzymes). 

(The boys think it would have been even better to dehydrate them overnight so the bananas were almost dried--- but they didn't want to wait!)

Other Options: 

• Serve without dehydrating--- still very satisfying!
• Use oven as dehyrator- set on the lowest setting possible

After a few hours in the dehyrator, we sprinkled shredded coconut flakes and vegan carob chips to garnish