Yummy Chewy Protein

So I am still amazed at what I can and cannot eat after surgery. For example, my husband can (and does) eat a chocolate bar right next to me. I can smell it. I can almost taste and I do not want any. I know!! It is crazy.
For me, it is important to keep some things always ready to go. One is a creamy protein drink, One is a nectar protein drink and last but most important is a protein bar. I have tried many a protein bar over the last 20 years and they just don't really improve with the time. My favorite bar isn't even that great and can be too sweet with all the chunks of chocolate in it. So here is my recipe for making a chewy bar using the only protein powder that I can tolerate at the moment! Syntrax Supplements!!

Ingredients:
2 tablespoons Vita Fiber
1 scoop protein powder (I prefer Syntrax Supplements, because of the absorbability)
2 teaspoons of almond flour

Directions:
Heat the Vita Fiber until it just starts to bubble. Once it bubbles, remove from heat and add almond flour and protein powder. I premix them together in a bowl for more even distribution. The mixture will look dry at first. Transfer the mixture onto a cutting board or kitchen counter, it will be hot to handle. I use ziploc type bags as mittens and knead it into a ball. (I am sure you can dump the mix into the bag and knead it that way instead and save yourself a bag) You can either add extras like nuts and knead again or just shape into your preferred shape.

In the picture above I made the following combinations:
Syntrax Peanut butter cookie with peanuts
Syntrax Perfect Chocolate with hazelnuts
Syntrax Vanilla bean torte with almonds

Oh so good! I now refuse to pay $3 and up for a protein bar when it is this easy to do it myself. I hope you enjoy this recipe and if you modify it or try it out be sure to let me know!

Baby Bites...

With everything that comes with being a mommy and a wife, you don't just get thrown curve balls, you get constant dodge balls to the face and gut. My most recent sucker punch... My baby gal has aggressive tooth decay.

Yes. My little bundle of rosey smelling poopy pants has tooth decay. So, lets talk about all the hindsight. I noticed a crack in two of her top front teeth a while back. I asked the pediatrition at her next visit and she said we should wait and see, as long as it doesn't stop baby from eating or nursing. I think she cracked them when she fell down while holding my stainless steel cup and hit her mouth on it. She left a pretty big dent in it, enough for me to need a new cup.

Well we waited and nothing really got better or worse. Not that a cracked tooth can get better. So, fast forward 4 months and I noticed her teeth look like she marked them up with a grey/green crayon. I am talking full on Austin Powers yuck teeth across her four front.

No more wait and see. I took her to 4 children's Dental offices. Two of the dentists wouldn't treat her at all because they were not pediatric specialists as advertised and one yelled at me for letting her get bottle rot and also for taking Zofran while pregnant. What? Finally I found a pediatric specialist expecting her to tell me Juniper needed caps on her front four teeth. Nope! She needs to have her top 3 front teeth removed. REMOVED!! She has such an aggressive decay in the tooth because it entered through the break that it is not salvageable. As if that were not horrific enough, she is not a candidate for oral sedation. That means having to take her to a childrens hospital and putting her completely under with general anesthesia or giving her laughing gas in the office and strapping her down to do the work.

I am having a hard time brushing her teeth because they are so sensitive now but she seems to have taken to a new one I found on Amazon http://amzn.to/2nxCjyG