Clean Eating Chocolate Pudding

Lets face it. If you’ve got kids, you just cannot have a house, pantry or fridge without snacks and desserts in them. It just doesn’t happen. The trick is making sure those snacks and desserts are healthy.

I have a group on MixingBowl.com that was featured in the Mixing Bowl Magazine this past month. So of course, I had to buy a copy.

Now, I don’t usually eat the kinds of foods that are in that magazine, but I couldn’t help looking through it and enjoying all the beautiful food photos. I do love good food porn. (Tastespotting.com, anyone?)

In it was a recipe for vanilla pudding. It looked simple enough, so I adapted it to my clean eating guidelines, and was actually pretty impressed with the outcome.

The only warning: This is definitely dessert. Not a snack. Be sure to pair this with plenty of protein at dinner. All the sugar content comes from the carbs in this recipe.

Clean Eating Chocolate Pudding
(Makes 4 small dessert bowls)

Ingredients:
2 c. non fat milk
2 tbsp. cornstarch
1/3 c. agave nectar
1/8 tsp. salt
3 tsp. bourbon vanilla
2 tsp. cocoa powder (no sugar added – just the pure stuff)

Directions:

Step 1 – Put all ingredients except the cocoa powder into a large pot (this will splatter a lot, so the bigger the pot the better) and whisk together. Bring pot to a soft boil. It will foam some, but the foam goes away as you whisk, although not completely.

Step 2 – Keep your soft boil going for about 10 minutes and then reduce heat until you have a soft simmer. Simmer for 10-15 minutes. Stir constantly so the bottom of your pot doesn’t burn.

Step 3 – When the time is up, you should have a nice thick pudding. Remove from heat and whisk in your cocoa powder.

Step 4 – Pour into bowls, cover with plastic wrap and place in the fridge overnight.

Eat and Enjoy!

Munchkin Helpers:

If you have little ones, here’s how they can help (With close supervision, of course).

This recipe may be a bit tough for the little ones to help with. Although they most certainly can add the ingredients to the cold pot. Older kids can help with stirring.

Nutritional Content
1 serving = 1/4 the recipe

Calories: 236
Total Fat: 0 gm
Saturated Fats: 0 gm
Trans Fats: 0 gm
Cholesterol: 3 gm
Sodium: 141 mg
Carbohydrates: 55 gm
Dietary fiber: 0 gm
Sugars: 51 gm
Protein: 5 gm
Estimated Glycemic Load: 36

Nutritional Information estimated at Nutritiondata.com. Data may not be accurate.

Caution: Any time a child is in the kitchen, they will require close supervision. Munchkin Helpers suggestions should be applied with common sense to your own child, taking their own capabilities into account. Do not assume that because it says here that your child can do something, that they can, in fact do it. Please use common sense when in the kitchen with your child(ren).

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