On the pulse
May 18, 2010 at 2:36 PM 7 comments
When a bag of chocolate chip cookies arrived at my door, my first thought?
“Score!”
It was as if the sweets gods had heard my grumbling belly.
And then I read on that package that these yummy looking cookies were made using beans…and I’ll admit it, the notion made me a tad queasy. (I don’t follow any type of restricted diet, so the idea of beans in cookies is a new one to me).
But I’ve eaten stranger things (I’d tried brains for the very first time at Buca restaurant–my new favourite restaurant btw–a few nights before). And so down the hatch one cookie went and it was soft and chewy and totally did not taste bean-y whatsoever) and it totally hit just the right sweet spot.
These gluten-free chocolate chip cookies were sent to me from Genuine Health. Their new Transform+ Pulse revolves around “pulse foods”–a term I’ve come to learn means beans, peas, lentils and chickpeas.
The beauty of pulse foods are that they’re way filling, as I was told by Bruce Krahn, Toronto-based personal trainer and author of the Fat Fighter Diet, given that they are high in fibre and protein. Which makes them a fantastic choice if you’re trying to get svelte for the beach as you can just have one cookie and feel full.
Even better, pulse foods have been shown to reduce risk of cancer, diabetes and heart disease.
The downside? If you’re looking to get your pulse foods in cookie format, you’ll have to bake them up yourself. For a quickie hit of it, though, the Transform+ Pulse ($29.99 for 297-gram bottle) hits shelves in July.
Entry filed under: Diet, Health. Tags: beans, cookie, Diet, fibre, food, Genuine Health, protein, pulse foods, snack, stevia, sugar, weight loss.
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Leila | May 18, 2010 at 2:46 PM
I tell you beans are taking over the world. This looks like a really interesting offering from Gen Health.
Have you tried Lentil chips? I”m addicted, you should definitely try them out. I personally like the salt and black pepper.
http://www.mediterraneansnackfoods.com/products/lentil-cucumber-dill/
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healthandswellness | May 18, 2010 at 2:53 PM
You had me at “chips”. I’ll try any type of chip! It was more the idea of beans in a sweet cookie that made me crinkle my nose.
On my next grocery list — those lentil chips, thanks!!
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healthandswellness | May 18, 2010 at 2:58 PM
Where do you get these lentil chips btw? (I don’t see any Canadian retailers on the site) Must. Have. Now.
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Leila | May 19, 2010 at 2:18 PM
I think in downtown you can get them at Fresh and Wild at King and Spadina. I would be shocked if Whole Foods didn’t carry them as well.
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healthandswellness | May 19, 2010 at 2:22 PM
I am so heading there this week– expect a review on them soon! :)
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Janine | May 19, 2010 at 8:40 AM
These cookies were YUM! I’ll link to you when I yum about them, so readers get the the pulse deets here!
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healthandswellness | May 19, 2010 at 8:48 AM
Right, YUM! Did you try the brownies, too? I’m not a brownie person so I didn’t…although I guess I really should’ve just given them to someone who is a chocoholic to taste test for me (not usually like me to waste food of any sort!).