Clean Eating Hot Chocolate

The winter months are upon us, it’s chilly, the winds are blowing and the fireplaces are calling our names. This inevitably makes me want hot chocolate. Something I nearly cried over when I thought I had to give it up for the clean eating lifestyle.

But then, I got creative. I’ll be darned if I’m going to give up to much of the foods I love. I don’t mind avoiding a few things, but you have to enjoy the life you live, and often, that includes food.

I truly believe we were meant to find pure and unadulterated joy in the foods we eat. As human beings, this is our birth right. But the foods we’ve come to define as “good”, are not always good for us. This is a lesson I’ve really been struggling with. So when I can alter a not-so-healthy recipe to one that is a bit more nutritionally sound, I jump all over it! While this is admittedly a once-in-a-while thing, it’s nice to know I have a healthier treat when I want one.

I don’t have a bunch of “how-to” photos for you today. I mean, let’s face it. It’s hot chocolate. How hard can it be? So you’ll have to make due with the photo of the final product.

Munchkin Helpers:

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

While this may not be suitable for the help of little ones, there are a couple things they can do if they are just dying to help.

Let them add the ingredients to the pot before you turn on the heat, and let them top off the drinks with the marshmallows. Bigger kids can even sprinkle the cocoa powder over the top with a little guidance.

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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