Sugar Free Blackberry Jelly

     I have been making jams and jellies all my life. I remember doing this with my grandma Boyle so many times. While I was growing up the only types of store bought jelly we had were grape and strawberry, anything else came from my grandma.

 What kind of jelly is your favorite? Leave me a comment.

     Mine is currant and strawberry jam. But those are triggers for me so I have to be mindful of my serving size or I will over do it.

     The biggest challenge to making sugar free jelly is getting it to gel, typically sugar is added to aid the natural pectin in this process. But on my Trim Healthy Mama journey, I need to be totally sugar free. So this is sweetened with stevia and I used gelatin to help with the gelling process.

Here the recipe I used

 Sugar Free Blackberry Jelly

  Printable Recipe

1 cup frozen blackberries
1 cup water
1/3 cup THM Sweet Blend or other plan approved sweetener
2 TBS lemon juice
2 tsp unflavored gelatin

Place blackberries and water into a heavy sauce pan. Heat until berries burst.

Stir in sweetener and lemon juice until sweetener is dissolved.

Wisk constantly as you add the gelatin until it is dissolved. Remove from heat.

Pour or ladle mixture into sterile jelly jars and refrigerate. Mixture will gel as it cools.

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Sugar Free Cinnamon Jelly

I'm really excited about this jelly!!

     While I love the Slim Belly Jelly from page 411 of Trim Healthy Mama , I was looking for a jelly that was a little more budget friendly as well as gave me a few different flavor profiles that were on plan.

   I have increased the amount of herbal teas that I use and love so many of them. There were a couple that I wasn't as fond of in a drink but they work amazing in this jelly. I use it with on plan toast, to make Cereal Bars from this post as well as in jelly style yogurt (page 252) and to top muffins in a mug as well as so many other recipes.

     Some of the benefits to using this jelly in your plan are:

• it is very budget friendly
• Gelatin has some amazing health benefits
• It is Sugar free and doesn't add a bunch of unneeded calories

     It takes about 2 hours and 15 minutes which includes the gelling time.

So here is the recipe:

 Sugar Free Cinnamon Jelly

Printable Recipe

1 cup boiling water

1 Cinnamon stick or tea bag (you can also use other herbal teas)

2 tsp or 1 packet gelatin

1/3 cup sweetener

Boil water and add tea bag and sweetener allow to steep to desired taste.

Add gelatin and whisk to combine. Allow to cool for about 2 hours until gelled.

Store in refrigerator. 

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Sugar Free Peanut Butter Crunch

     When I made the Trim Mint Cereal I had visions of so many varieties of cereal that I had a hard time waiting to make these.

     With the new peanut flour from Trim Healthy Mama, I was able to put this one together in about 10 minutes. Quick easy and so many uses.

• A crunchy snack that travels in a container
• With almond milk (who needs Captain Crunch!!)
• mixed with some on plan Greek yogurt 

     Just to name a few. Mixed with a batch of plain Cocoa cereal (that's a future post) this would make another great Cereal/snack mix that packs in the protein without all the sugars and carbs from store bought varieties.

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Here's the recipe

Sugar Free Peanut Butter Crunch

Printable Recipe

2 scoops whey protein powder, I used this one
1/2 cup Peanut flour, I used the THM Brand
1/3 cup Sweetener, This is what I use
1/4 cup melted Coconut Oil 
1/4 tsp Celtic Salt
1/4 tsp Baking Soda

Preheat oven to 300F.

Combine whey, peanut flour, sweetener, salt and baking soda, I used a wisk.

Drizzle coconut oil into dry ingredients while stirring with a fork, should be crumbly.

Dump out onto a baking sheet with sides, so the oil doesn't leak off into the oven.

Place in oven and bake for 12-15 min, making sure it doesn't burn.

Stir while hot, it will crisp up as it cools A LOT.

Store in an air tight container.

Makes 4 Servings

This is an S for Mama's following Trim Healthy Mama like me.