Chocolate Mint Chex Mix

Welcome to our weekly Foodie Friday link up! I’m linking up with Annmarie from the Fit Foodie Mama, Esther from Chocolate Runner Girl + Jess from Hello To Fit to create awesome healthy recipes each week! This week’s theme is Choctober!

If you haven’t entered the Choctoberfest giveaway yet…you should probably go do that! There are tons of deliciously sweet prizes to be won! <3 This post is a double-linkup, so try not to get too crazy with all the chocolate-y goodness floating around. :O

One of our lovely sponsors is Barleans! ( I received free products from them in celebration of Choctober! As always, all thoughts + opinions are mine and mine alone.) Originally, I was going to share a healthy ice cream recipe with you, but my blender had other ideas (it’s on strike), and I also don’t currently have any small, pretty bowls on hand to display ice cream in an attractive way, so…you get a spiffy snack instead!

Barlean’s Chocolate Silk Greens taste just like cocoa powder, and is both dairy and soy-free. You can mix it with water or milk and throw in fruit to make a delicious drink/smoothie! Or you can make this not-extremely-healthy-but-could-definitely-be-worse chex mix! Each scoop has 25 calories, with 4g carbohydrates and 1g protein!

Barleans also makes all kinds of other products, e.g. flax oils, fish oils, specialty oils, and swirls, so if you’re in the market for superfood supplements, this is where it’s at!

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Chocolate Mint Chex Mix

Ingredients:

• 4 cups chex mix
• 3/4 cup mint chocolate chips
• 12 Andes mints, coarsely chopped
• 1 scoop of Barlean’s Chocolate Silk Greens

Instructions:

1. Microwave 1/2 cup mint chocolate chips for 1 minute. Stir. Microwave in 30-second increments until mixture can be stirred smooth.
2. Pour over chex mix and toss with Andes mints and Barleans Chocolate Silk Greens!
3. Store in an airtight bag/container!

End-of-Week-ish Recap!

• Twas the first Saturday of the month, which means…hooray for the Ultimate Coffee Date! Catch up on life with me and click over to see pictures of super-cute animals!
• In the market for a new cookbook? This vegetarian cookbook will make you want to travel!
• I’m celebrating Choctoberfest this week with a whole ton of other bloggers (hence, this week’s theme + the chocolate-related recipes all week). Enter our epic giveaway!
• Our From Left 2 Write book club pick this month was The Little Paris Bookshop (which I’ve actually written a formal review of before)! Enter my giveaway to win your own copy!
• In celebration of Choctoberfest, I also did a roundup of all the chocolate-y recipes on my blog!

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My life-recap is down here today, just to change things up!

1. My Washington rotation has effectively been cancelled a second time. I am kinda upset because I was really looking forward to it, but can’t say I didn’t see it coming. They’re still offering me an interview though, so it’s a-okay!
2. I went on my first interview earlier this week! My preceptor was watching the clock on Monday and eventually shooed me out after a couple hours, telling me to drive safely, and that he was sure they’d love me. I’m on the fence about writing a separate post for each interview experience right now, but for now, I’ll just say that it was a very positive experience and I’d like to think it went well! I spoke with both the program directors and one of the takeaway points from each of them…is that they think that me + powerlifting = awesome.
   

   Yayuh! <3

   One of them asked me if I’d had a chance to check out their gym (which they provide a free membership to) was equipped enough to help me succeed for my goals to beat national records someday. Whatta kind and thoughtful soul! :D!

3. One of my preceptor’s patients decided to hit on me yesterday. I was across the room and didn’t actually hear most of what he said, but the general gist of it (since the entirety of the staff heard) was that I should totally visit him before I leave (today’s my last day) because he owns a resort 4 miles down the road. I think I shall respectfully pass, good sir!

Check out other Foodie Friday recipes/themes!

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Interested in getting to know more about any of your super-awesome co-hosts? :]

• Farrah | blog | facebook | instagram | pinterest | twitter | bloglovin’
• Annmarie | blog | facebook | instagram | pinterest | twitter | bloglovin’
• Esther | blog | facebook | instagram | pinterest | twitter | bloglovin’
• Jess | blog | facebook | instagram | pinterest | twitter | bloglovin’

Join us next week for Meatless!