Fun Food Find Friday!!

I used to loved Jelly Belly's so much! Their pear flavor was my most favorite. So you can imagine my excitement when I found these, Jelly Belly's Naturals. They tastes just as good as the normal Jelly Belly's that have the high fructose corn syrup and all of the other not so good for you ingredients. These are made with evaporated cane juice, and tapioca syrup, with real flavors from fruit. They are delicious.

The funny thing is I couldn't find these on the Jelly Belly web site. I looked all over for them. I've only been able to find them at http://www.naturalcandystore.com/. Try them you'll love them!

Fun Food Find Friday!!

This week our fun food find is another bulk item, Jelly Beans. A few years ago at Easter time I was looking for some healthier candy for my children. I didn't want them missing out on the fun traditions, and I didn't want to have all of the refined sugar either. These jelly beans were perfect! They are made with evaporated cane juice and are very good. Again these are not as colorful as regualr jelly beans because they do not have all of the food coloring. But they are just as good. We also use these to put in the middle of our home made suckers.

You can find these in the bulk sections of Health Food stores.

Hummingbird Nests

Now these are not what I would call healthy, just fun for the holiday.

In our family we do most of our Easter activities tomorrow, Saturday. So I made these bird no bake cookies today. I thought they looked cute and there wasn't much to change so my family could eat them. I thought they turned out just like the picture from familyfun.com (that is where I got the recipe). These were very easy to do and my kids were so excited to eat them. If you like coconut you'll like these.

Hummingbird Nests Cookies

Ingredients

1 cup carob chips

1 cup shredded coconut

Evaporated cane juice jelly beans

Directions

Melt carob chips, following the directions on the bag. When the carob is smooth, stir in the coconut, then drop the mixture by the heaping tablespoon onto waxed paper lined cookie sheets. While the nest are still warm, use your thumbs to poke an impression into the middle of each. If they are too sticky slightly wet you thumb first. Cool, then fill with jelly beans for the eggs.