Over the past few weeks, I have been eating way too much junk food. And while I still crave sugar, I've tried to curb the cravings by finding low sugar, healthy options. 

I've been trying to get back to basics in a lot of my recipes when I came up with this recipe for banana oatmeal chocolate chip cookies. I am  in love with this recipe as it is completely vegan (not that I am vegan, but all things in moderation, right?).  It's also gluten free and has no additional sugar besides the chocolate chips.  And you don't even notice - especially if you are using very ripe bananas (the more black spots, the sweeter they are!).

I mixed both rolled oats and oat flour together. Oat flour is simply rolled oats ground (in your food processor) until finely ground.

These cookies are great as breakfast cookies. While they don't contain nuts as you find in traditional breakfast cookies, these ones are quite filling. Plus, you can definitely add nuts to the recipe if you prefer - go ahead, make it your own!

Because of the bananas, these cookies are quite soft and chewy. (Just the way I like them!)