Before you automatically dismiss these as unsatisfying, gross cookie-pucks that wouldn’t be appetizing to anyone normal, open your mind and read me out. Owen seems to be having trouble with white sugar lately (a wee bit of an understatement), so we’ve got the kid detoxing. We actually don’t eat white sugar in our house, but the birthday parties and end of the school year celebrations have gotten the better of us.

We were headed to yet another party, and Owen needed a treat and I wanted to try a new recipe. There aren’t a whole lot of sugar-free cookie recipes out there that are also healthy (honey doesn’t count as sugar-free — it digests like a white sugar — and artificial sweeteners aren’t actually edible).

So how good does the combination of peanut butter, oatmeal and banana sound? Yeah, it wasn’t good enough for me, either, so I switched a few ingredients, added grain-sweetened chocolate chips and created a cookie masterpiece. These are truly the most delicious sugar-free cookies I’ve made.

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