Lactation Cookies

I have what is sometimes an insatiable hunger.  I also crave something sweet every day.  Sometimes, I push it a little too far without eating, and I start to get light-headed.  That is, if I don't eat 3,000 calories per day, I start to get sick.  It makes it hard to loose any baby weight while my body is trying to be a breast milk machine.  Some days, I struggle against it and some days I give in.  Regardless, since I struggled so much with my pumping output in the beginning, I decided that if I was going to eat junk food, it might as well be organic, whole junk food that theoretically helped my milk supply.  So, even though I don't believe these help me all that much, I still bake and eat them each week.  What helps each persons milk supply is different, and while I don't think they had an effect on me, someone else will say that they blew them away.  They do taste yummy.  I started with this recipe here.

And, when the hell do I have time to actually bake cookies?  Well, there is sometimes an hour or so around midnight once a week when Lily is passed the bleep out. 

1. Mix in a bowl:

• 1 1/2 c. organic stone ground whole wheat flour
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp sea salt
• 1 tsp organic cinnamon 

2. Beat until creamy:

• 3/4 c. organic peanut butter
• 1/2 c. organic pastured butter, softened
• 1/2 c. cane sugar
• 1/2 c. turbinado sugar
• 2 tsp organic, fair-trade vanilla
• 1 c. ground flax meal
• 3 T brewer's yeast
• 1/3 c. water

 3. Then add in eggs, chocolate chips, and oats in that order.

• 2 large organic cage free eggs
• 2 c. (12oz) organic, fair-trade chocolate chips
• 1 3/4 c. organic steel cut oats

4. Place balls of dough onto greased baking sheets or baking stones and press down each ball lightly with a fork. Bake 17 minutes at 350 degrees.