Easy, healthy snacking is the name of the game.
It’s more than tempting to grab a handful (or entire family-sized bag) of tasty yet greasy chips or chow down on borderline stale packaged cookies when hunger strikes and you begin to enter hanger territory.
Yes fresh fruit and veggies are always great snacking material but let’s be honest, you need some healthy fats and protein in your life too!
Those good fats and protein are the key to happy high-energy vibes.
Plus a bikini ready bod.
So plop!
Fruity freeze-dried strawberries, sweet medjool dates, and creamy salted peanut butter landed in my food processor then got transformed into the most delicious PB&J bites!
Yeah 3-ingredient recipes always make my day.
And rolling balls is kind of fun so there’s that. Ha. Ha…
You get health bonus points if you roll your bites in hemp hearts, although that extra bit of work is really not 100% necessary.
Just 100% necessary for extra appetizing photos.
Store your sweet and salty bites in the fridge and pop a couple any time you’re in the need for a speedy satisfying morsel.
Midnight snacks included.
Although I prefer to just take a fat spoon to the pb jar at that point.
P.S. I get my freeze-dried strawberries at Trader Joe’s. Hooray! TJ’s also has hemp hearts. Double hooray! Pick up your medjool dates and creamy salted pb while you’re at it. The less shopping trips and indecisive senior citizen dodging the better.
P.P.S. Don’t even think about using Jif, Skippy or other peanut butter posers. And peanut butter spread should have gone extinct last year. Gag.
P.P.P.S. This recipe makes about 7 lucky balls, but you can easily whip up a double batch because those suckers tend to go quick.
P.P.P.P.S. I like to leave some small strawberry and date chunks in the mixture for textural interest. Yes, you do too.
I’m so glad I found your site- the food looks delicious! Do regular frozen strawberries work with this recipe?
Thank you so much Kelsey! 🙂 I would stick to freeze-dried strawberries since regular frozen strawberries have a lot more moisture and would probably make the bites too runny. Although you could certainly try and perhaps store them in the freezer. They would still be edible of course!