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No Bake Oatmeal Energy Balls Recipe with Chocolate Chips720P HD
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Jun 23, 2025
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hey guys it's Danny and we just wrapped
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up another Facebook live i made some no
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bake energy balls delish so now I wanted
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to come and share them with you enjoy
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hello hello my friends we are live here
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on Facebook Friday so um let me know say
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hello as you join along my name is Danny
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Speeds here for Clean and Delicious
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today I am showing you guys how to make
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no bake energy balls now these are such
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a great snack cuz number one they have
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chocolate chips in them so they kind of
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uh satisfy the sweet tooth um but
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they're really nutrientdense and they
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are delicious and they're super
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convenient and if you guys like to do
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meal prep as you know I like to do it's
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a great thing to add to your meal prep
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on the weekend make a whole bunch you
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can even double the recipe because you
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can store them in the fridge or the
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freezer so great great for lunch boxes
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great for afternoon coffee great to
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support before or after a workout very
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versatile snack we're going to be doing
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here my friends so I'm going to set my
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phone up over here and we're going to
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jump right into the recipe as always if
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you have questions put them in the
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comments below and we shall get to them
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um so this recipe is here's what we're
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using okay
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oats
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some type of nut butter i've got peanut
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butter crunchy honey you could also do
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maple syrup ground up flax seed uh mini
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chocolate chips and a little vanilla
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extract that's all it takes so this is a
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great like dump and stir kind of recipe
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good for anybody i'm going to say I want
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to say it's great for moms cuz we're
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always so busy you know kids always need
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to eat but you know what it's also great
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for students um anybody who's working
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full-time and just has a busy schedule i
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feel it's almost everybody these days so
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you're going to start with one cup of
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rolled oats try to get oldfashioned
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rolled oats because if you get the um
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the quick cooked oats it's gonna have a
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different texture and it absorbs more uh
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so it's not going to hold together as
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well okay then we are going to add to
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this a half a cup of ground flax seed
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now guys if you're not familiar with
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flax seed they are a great vegetarian
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source of those heart healthy omega-3s
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right a lot of people think we need to
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eat salmon or some type of animal to get
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those healthy fats you do not you can
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get them from dark leafy greens and you
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can get a really good dose from flax
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seeds like we have right here now here's
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the key with flax seeds a lot of times
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what's wrong there's something wrong
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with the light sorry
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my husband's walking all over the place
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okay just stay all right but the light
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is bright that's why I don't want to
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hurt people's eyes it's okay thank you
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for thinking about that but we're going
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to have to just work with it pardon me
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guys okay so um so I have a cup of blah
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blah if you buy flax seeds and they're
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they're little tiny seeds if you buy
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them intact you have to grind them up
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before you eat them because they're so
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small the chances of you biting through
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them and then your body being able to
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assimilate them is not very likely so if
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you buy them in seed form you're going
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to have to get a coffee grinder or
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something to grind them up or you can
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buy them pregrown like I have here okay
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and that's the way you want to inest
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them now technically buying them in seed
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form they will last longer um but
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sometimes you just have to go with
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convenience you know what I'm saying so
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that's in the bowl next up I have a half
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a cup of crunchy peanut butter whenever
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you're making a recipe that especially a
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recipe like that is a baking recipe that
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calls for nut butter just go over there
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please um that calls for nut butter
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always try to keep it at room
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temperature cuz once you put it in the
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fridge it gets cold and it's really hard
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to work with you could do almond butter
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if you can't do any nuts guys you can do
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sunnut butter sunflower seed butter then
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we have 1/3 of a cup of honey this could
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also be maple syrup
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we don't discriminate up in here any
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liquid sweetener really would do a kiss
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of vanilla extract
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and then
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last but not least
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we're sprinkling in the chocolate chips
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and I'm using mini chocolate chips
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because these are going to be little
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tiny like 1-in balls I'm going to roll
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them into but you could certainly
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um use regular fulls size concoct chips
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i just think it's easier to work with
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this way okay then you're just going to
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stir this all together so seriously this
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recipe could not be any easier my peanut
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butter is salted so I'm not adding any
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extra salt but if you didn't have salted
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peanut butter I would recommend like a
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nice hearty pinch of some kosher sea
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salt in here just to give it that little
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kind of brightens up all the flavors
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okay I'm going to give this a stir let's
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see what do we have what's the
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difference between flax seed meal and
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ground flax seed flax seed meal is
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ground flax seed so it's just a it's
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just a wording thing a lot of times
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that's the way you'll see it labeled so
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great question
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um
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can chia seeds be used in place of the
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ground flax seed is one seed more health
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beneficial than the other um chia seeds
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I think would probably work but I'm not
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positive um because those are going to
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be like little seeds and they absorb a
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lot they you know they probably gets too
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I think it could work it's worth trying
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if you're open to experiment with it and
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no I think both of these seeds they both
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have a lot of similar properties and a
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lot of similar health benefits so I
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think when it comes down to flax seeds
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versus chia seeds it's not even worth
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trying to uh like you know nitpick at
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which one's better they're both really
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good for you and they're both very
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similar in what they offer and I
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wouldn't sweat it too much i think when
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you get to stuff like that ask yourself
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which one do you enjoy more right
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because if you're trying to eat health
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foods I'm not saying you are Nikki but
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if you're trying to eat health food
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because it's healthy but you don't enjoy
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it you're removing a huge um part of the
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pleasure which removes a huge part of
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the nourishment right nutrients what's
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in the food is just a part of the
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equation the whole eating experience
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enjoying our food getting pleasure from
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our food that is what nourishment is
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right who we eat with how we eat uh so
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it's all equally important okay so you
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can see once this comes together it's
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like a sticky dough oh my gosh I just
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want to put my fingers in there and eat
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it right now hi from California Vicki
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hello rainy California oh I heard that
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you guys are getting a big storm today
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kate Doyle do you do you do raw honey
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sometimes I do and sometimes I don't it
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just depends on what I'm buying and what
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I'm not if I do raw honey this is a good
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recipe to use it in because you're not
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cooking it right because if you're doing
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raw honey you don't want to heat it
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otherwise you're going to lose a lot of
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the nutritional benefits so then I have
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a rimmed baking sheet you could
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certainly do parchment paper here that
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would be my first choice but I don't
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have any so I'm just going to spray it
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cuz they they can stick once you get
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them down there okay then what you want
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to do is grab about a tablespoon right
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and you're going to roll it between your
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palms just like you're doing a meatball
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you know growing up in an Italian
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kitchen anytime I'm rolling something
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like this it's going to be equated to a
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meatball in my world right so like
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little meatballs and I don't know would
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you say that's the size of a golf ball
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might be a little bit smaller
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little bit smaller and I um I don't even
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I don't remember about how many we're
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going to get out of this but I'm going
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to go ahead and do a handful of them
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while I look at your comments here guys
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okay sandre says "Hey Danny thanks for
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these great ideas." Thank you for tuning
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in you guys i look forward to these so
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much on Fridays because first of all
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it's Friday right so it's exciting
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because it's the end of the week but
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this is like my favorite thing to do i
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love all of the videos we shoot but the
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live videos are hands down my favorite i
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just like the casual energy and I like
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that you guys get to bop on and then we
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get to chat with each other so much fun
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um Jessica should you keep your flax
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seed meal in the freezer yes or the
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refrigerator you definitely want to keep
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it in a cold dark place or a cool dark
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place because the flax seeds are very
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delicate the fats in the flax seeds are
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very delicate so you want if you they're
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going to much more likely go rancid on
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you if they are um not in a cool dry
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place okay same with all of your nuts
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guys the nuts the oil in the nuts are
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very delicate and you'll know a rancid
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nut when you smell it like if you open
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your nuts or your oils and they smell
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off it's a very distinct smell um and
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taste um if you taste that you want to
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get rid of it because you literally just
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went from something that's rich in
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antioxidants with all these power
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benefits to something that is oxidized
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and does the opposite in your body right
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so antioxidant is going to eat up all
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that stuff in your body oxidized is
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adding to it so we want to dump any of
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that if you find any of your nuts or
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your seeds go rancid not worth keeping
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um
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Nikki I know I don't sound great but I
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actually feel really good you know when
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you get like a little cold and for the
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first few days you're all stuffy i feel
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like now it's all clearing out now I
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sound bad but I feel good
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um Christy hello from Nebraska tamara
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green juice carrots seated crackers and
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hummus yummy what that's for lunch I
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think that sounds delicious
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uh let's see any questions that I'm
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missing here do you recommend buying
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grounded flax seeds or whole flax okay
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so I touched on this a little bit before
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i think ideally whole flax and then you
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ground them at home yourself because
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they're going to be fresher and um
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that's always a good thing but and
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they're going to last longer but from
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con like convenience standpoint I bought
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mine pregggroundown so again you got to
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make it work for you and your lifestyle
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but absolutely fresh is best so you
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always want to go the least processed so
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the whole seed is one step less
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processed than the ground seed so in my
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opinion a better choice but you got to
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find it and make it work for you and
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your lifestyle right okay hey Danny this
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is seven-year-old Gwenny from California
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again i am in first grade and I want to
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try these oh Gwenny I wish you could
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meet my daughter you guys could make
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these together this is such a perfect
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kid recipe and I know that you'll enjoy
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the taste because they they taste like
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um I mean think like peanut butter and
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chocolate together you get that little
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bit of salt because the nut butter is
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salted or you could add a little bit of
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salt um good to hear lots of lemon honey
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and whiskey if you follow me on Snapchat
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I showed you guys my dinner last night
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which was a cup of throat coat tea with
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lemon and some uh black label whiskey so
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I'm right there with you girl you know
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what i'm not one to poo the old
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triedand-true techniques you know I'm
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serious about getting healthy okay let's
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see we got Let's see how many we got out
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of this
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is your peanut butter should be room
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temperature do you leave the whole jar
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in the fridge and then leave out the
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amount needed for the recipe um normally
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I have so much peanut butter in my
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pantry that I'll open a new jar when I'm
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doing a recipe like this but if that's
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the case I would take it out i just take
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the jar out and leave it until I was
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going to use it or scoop out what you
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need and throw it in the microwave for a
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few minutes it just makes it easier to
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work with okay let's count 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
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8 9 10 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 if you made
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them all a little smaller you could get
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20
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okay so guys from here you would pop
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these in the freezer you could also put
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them in the fridge for them to firm up
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you could really eat them just like this
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they're delicious there's nothing in
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there that has to be cooked and these
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are great for like I said lunch boxes um
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morning coffee afternoon coffee
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preworkout post-workout sweet treat it
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really covers a lot of ground and they
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are delish and super convenient somebody
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asked what the Snapchat handle was my
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Snapchat handle is clean delicious no
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and clean delicious so look for me there
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and say hello um would these freeze well
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yes I know i'll take them from this and
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put them right in the freezer usually
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um my nut butters are always so hard to
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stir any tips for stirring nut butters
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interesting my first question is are you
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buying them
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um are are you trying to stir them cold
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you got to go room temperature because
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if you're room temperature they
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shouldn't be super hard to stir um do
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you keep these in the fridge or freezer
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either one will work snapchat handle you
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got it you look so beautiful today why
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Molly thank you um Danielle Russo hello
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Glenn a fellow Glenrocker hello to you
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thanks for tuning in guys all right so
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what can I replace for the chocolate
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i've been 60 days off refined sugar go
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Maya go um okay carob is carob carob
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chips are those refined sugar-free
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guys help Maya out let me know if these
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are or not or raisins or something like
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that right well I was going to go there
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next you could do shredded coconut you
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could do dried fruit you could do
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chopped up dates um you could do cacao
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nibs now those are not going to have any
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sweetness in them but they'll give you
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that really rich uh decadent uh
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chocolatey like I don't know if you've
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had the cacao nibs yet it's not like
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chocolate chips but it's delicious so
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you could do like a little cacao nib and
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maybe like a little um dried fruit lot
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of options okay okay my friends um let
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me just show them the texture real quick
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and then we'll head out of here so you
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can see it like this they almost look
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like a raw cookie dough ball sort of if
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you put them in the freezer they firm up
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and that's how we usually eat them from
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the fridge or the freezer but this is
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equally delicious okay this recipe will
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be on my blog i'll put the video on
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YouTube tomorrow thank you so much for
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joining me guys i'll see you back here
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