Healthy Monster Cookies - Sugar-Free

These sugar-free and healthy monster cookies are going to revolutionize your cookie experience! They are delicious and perhaps will remind you of the sugar-filled ones with ample peanut butter, chocolate chips, and oats. Don't walk...run to make these!

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Monster Cookies and Pregnancy

Living a sugar-free lifestyle became a bit hard in the last month of pregnancy. No matter what I tried I only could get Wylder to kick when I ate sugar.

I tried drinking kombucha, eating mangos, and other types of natural sugar and he would be still. The second I swallowed any sort of sugary substance he would start kicking up a storm. It was a good way for him to make his mama a wee bit crazy. It was also a good way to get my Trim Healthy Mama journey a bit derailed.

But getting a good kick count was worth my mental peace during that last month. So I succumbed to eating a bit of sugar each day to get him to kick.

On the way to work, it became a 'pregnancy tradition' for me to stop by our local coffee shop, and get a decaf coffee, and monster cookie. I would eat my cookie, the kid would come to life, and I would get my 'kick counts' for the day within a few minutes. Then he would settle down and I would barely feel him again.

That first time I ate those monster cookies to get him to kick, a sugar headache just about took me down. But as it is with sugar, my body quickly became used to it.

After having Wylder I've been detoxing from sugar again and found myself still with my 'monster cookie' cravings. These sugar-free monster cookies with sourdough are so good and taste close to those sugar-filled ones I ate during pregnancy!

Sugar-Free Lifestyle

Why live a sugar-free lifestyle? This blog is filled with reasons why living a sugar-free lifestyle can be beneficial to our health. We are living in a culture that consumes more sugar than at any other previous point in history. This has led to inflammation, weight problems, insomnia, memory fog, and more.

There are two types of 'sugar' that we consume on a daily basis; fructose, and glucose. You can read more about it in my "Best Natural Sweeteners" article, but here is the gist of it:

Fructose is naturally found in many plants like fruits. Most of the sugars found in processed food contain a combination of fructose and glucose which is primarily found in sucrose which usually comes from highly processed corn syrup. So while our sweet foods are originally derived from a natural source it is manipulated to a form our body cannot process well. Subsequently, our body gains weight, has health problems, and deals with uncontrollable blood sugar issues.

These healthy monster cookies are certainly not sweet-free, they are only sugar-free and use sweeteners like stevia to add sweetness back into a classic recipe! Ready to try and live a sugar-free lifestyle? Join me for my 5-day sugar challenge!

Healthy Monster Cookies

Can we still enjoy a healthy alternative to many of our beloved treats? Yes! Goodness yes! That is why I wrote "Sugar-Free Sweet Stuff"! Many of those recipes were inspired by other beloved recipes that were sugar filled.

These healthy monster cookies are fairly easy to make and great for pregnant or nursing mamas!

These would be considered a THM crossover.

Tips and Tricks for Making the Sugar-Free Monster Cookies

• Important - If you want your cookies to mound up and not spread out as much when cooking, put the dough in the refrigerator for 2-3 hours. If you don't mind your cookies spreading out a bit, use much smaller dollops of dough on the baking sheet because they will spread out when baked.
• You will want to use a sugar-free chocolate chip alternative. Bake Believe or Lily's Chocolate Chips are my personal favorite.
• I recommend using rolled oats instead of instant oats because the cookies will hold their structure better.
• Your sourdough starter needs to be an active starter or discard. To be THM plan approved sourdough items need a 7-hour room temp ferment or a 24-hour fridge ferment. 1-hour room temp equals 3.5 hours in the refrigerator.

Ingredients for the Sourdough Monster Cookies

Wet Ingredients

• 3 eggs
• 1\2 cup soft butter
• 1 cup peanut butter
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 cup sourdough starter

Dry Ingredients

• 1 cup THM Gentle Sweet
• ½ cup Swerve Brown Sugar
• 3 cups oatmeal
• 2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon mineral salt
• 1-2 cups of sugar-free chocolate chips

Instructions for the Best Healthy Monster Cookies

1. Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees
2. Combine wet ingredients. Mix well.
3. Add Gentle Sweet and Brown Sugar. Cream together with a whisk.
4. Add Oats, baking soda, and salt.
5. Drop large "monster cookie plops' onto greased baking sheets.
6. Bake for 12-15 minutes.
7. Immediately place on a cooling rack.

Important - If you want your cookies to mound up and not spread out as much when cooking, put the dough in the refrigerator for 2-3 hours. If you don't mind your cookies spreading out a bit, use much smaller dollops of dough on the baking sheet because they will spread out when baked.

Other Healing Home Treats

The softest THM chocolate chip cookies

Sugar-free Peanut Butter Balls

No Sugar Chocolate Cake