OT: High fiber cookies.

Hi Vickie,
Yes I lost a little over 150 lbs by watching what I eat and exercising.......

If you substitute half the flour with whole wheat, that would make it better right there. I'll look in my gastric bypass cookbook and see if there's anything, but I only used one of there cookie recipes and didn't like it much.

You can make black bean brownies ... I don't know the recipes, but I had these once and they were pretty good. Couldn't tell there were beans in them. Lots of fiber in that. Also, zucchini brownies or cookies ... lots of fiber there. Nobody knows there's zucchini in that ... my friend Margie fooled her kids for years with her zucchini brownies. They ate them, loved them, didn't know she was feeding them veggies for years until they were older and she told them.

well, that is one way to get the veggies in to the kids.  i have eaten it before and if was good.  i have yet to cook a recipe geared for rnyers.  i really need to get into the whole cooking thing. i've just been relying on fish, chicken, beef and veggies and fruit, also protein powder.  it would be nice to have some protein bars that really tasted good though.  i will have to google black bean brownies. thanks vick

I just made "Fiberful Oatmeal chocolate Chip Cookie" from: http://healthy mamaskitchen.blogspot.com

They are wonderful. . . I'll have to be really careful. I substituted brown sugar splenda and splenda for the sugars. I don't have problems with the substitutes. It calls for 2 cups of Fiber cereal ground as finely as possible. I used my Magic Bullet BUT I screwed up and put in 2 cups of the ground cereal flour instead of 1 like the recipe calls for. The cookies are fine. I think they would be too thin without the 2 cups of fiber cereal flour. I had Kashi Go Lean Crunch on hand. That's what I used. But the recipe says you can use any kind. I did put chocolate chips in to woo my husband, but raisins or craisins would be great too.

karen another option is that voortmans makes a good fiber cookie--i had them in past and we had a package at nan's over teh 4th- kroger or any grocery should have them...just a thought...

Margo, I have to be careful. If they are too good, I'll eat them like regular cookies and I go beyond being "regular" very quickly!

I make those peanut butter cookies with splenda and I add oatmeal and buy one of those natural mixes at the healthfood store and add that too.  They are really good.  I haven't made them in a while. Oh, I don't use flour,

For a year or so I've been making "oat flour" in my Magic Bullet. I like the taste of it in cookies and it adds fiber. I was surprised at how "flour like" the Go Lean Crunch became when "bulleted." The recipe I was using said you can do that with any "fiber" cereal. 

I guess I've just become my own "grain mill". My dad said they took their corn to the "mill" to be ground. They didn't have much wheat in AR without buying it so they ate a lot of corn meal. Their diets were so much more natural than today's. Even the meats were, grass fed, wild or "free range" as were the chickens. At least you weren't getting tons of chemicals. I'm going to keep working with this adding fiber thing.

I've added grated carrots to meat loaf for years. I have to trick Mike just like I did the kids.