Apple Pie in a Jar - PCOS-Friendly Recipe
Nutrition per Serving
Ingredients
- 10 oatmeal cookies, crumbled
- 4-5 apples, diced
- 1 tsp. cinnamon
- 4 scoops vanilla ice cream
- Caramel, for drizzling
Instructions
- Make apple layer: In a medium saucepan over low heat, combine apples and cinnamon and cook until soft, about 10 minutes.
- Among four mason jars, layer oatmeal cookies and apples, alternating until you reach the top of the jar.
- Top with a scoop of vanilla ice cream and drizzle with caramel.
PCOS-Friendly Foods in This Recipe
This recipe contains the following foods that may benefit PCOS management: Cinnamon, Apples.
Cinnamon is one of the best ingredients that someone with insulin sensitivity can eat. Half a teaspoon of cinnamon per day has been shown to be very effective at normalizing blood sugar levels. Cinnamon contains hydroxychalcone, which is thought to enhance the effects of insulin. It has also been suggested that Cinnamon prevents post-meal blood sugar spikes by slowing the gastric emptying rate - meaning that food digests slowly. (Reference: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11506060). Apples wi...
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