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No Bake Chocolate Oat Cookies - for Increasing Breastmilk Supply

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determination · 12/02/2007 14:53

No Bake choc cookies

2 cups sugar 1/2 cup cocoa
1/2 cup milk 1 stick butter

Boil the above ingredients for 2 minutes, remove from heat and mix the below ingredients in. Spoon onto wax paper and allow to cool.

1/2 cup peanut butter (if wished or replace with raisins)
3 cups of oats initially, add extra oats until mixture is very stiff
1 TSP vanilla

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Muminfife · 12/02/2007 16:10

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determination · 14/02/2007 08:44

Yeh im pretty sure it would do... How did you get on?

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Twiglett · 14/02/2007 08:46

I'm sure they're delicious but why exactly would you think they would help breastmilk supply

and I don't htink you're supposed to have peanut butter in pregnancy any more are you?

Fillyjonk · 14/02/2007 08:47

pmsl

HOW pray does it inc milk supply more than, say, a big bar of chocolate?

am going to try it but...its peanut + chocolate oaty biscuits, isn't it?

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determination · 14/02/2007 09:21

Oats have been widely used for decades to naturallu increase milk supply check this out
in the increase mothers milk supply section

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determination · 14/02/2007 09:22

Oaty chocolate biscuits will not have the same quantity of oats in it, this is why they are not as effective!

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Chandra · 14/02/2007 09:29

Determination, the oat thing have been used for years in my country to increase milk supply (although not in biscuits but as porridge every morning).

The only thing I can report from that is that they may help the milk supply (although, having said that, most people there do not breasfeed for as long as people here) and it really doesn't help to shift the excess weight put on during pregnancy.

Fillyjonk · 14/02/2007 12:52

it IS oaty chocolate biscuits

oats, and chocolate, with peanut butter

what else would it be?

I am not against these, you understand but...

surely the way to more milk is more feeding? Surely?

Though it must be said I have sucessfully fed 2 kids (not together though) for oooh ages and I do eat a lot of chocolate, peanut butter and oats...

am also rather not svelte...

Fillyjonk · 14/02/2007 12:53

was going to make this but

2 CUPS of sugar?

And then MORE cocoa?

Chandra · 14/02/2007 12:58

and half a cup of peanut butter!

amfs · 14/02/2007 13:01

I'm sorry but you don't need a special diet to produce milk - what crap - unless you're malnourished yourself you will produce milk

enjoy the cookies for their own sake but giving oats some quasi-scientific advantage is rot

Fillyjonk · 14/02/2007 13:06

half a cup of peanut butter and then butter on top

look its just a high fat high sugar high calorie snack.

Eating lots of calories can help with the milk production if you're deficient there to start with (not uncommon in new mums, IME)

But theres nothing magic here!

If its oats-have muesli or porridge. Porridge is VERY easy, btw, don't let anyone tell you otherwise. You can sprinkle chocolate on it too.

Fillyjonk · 14/02/2007 13:06

(oh and thats SATURATED fat, btw)

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determination · 14/02/2007 13:35

I personally DID eat porridge in the morning and at night... i also snacked on oat cakes throughout the day - which are actually quite low in SATURATED fat.

However,... there are mums out there that DO LIKE sweet things and DON'T LIKE plain porridge and this is another option for those mums.

Each to their own - thats my opinion anyway.

Yes, I completely understand that mum DO NOT need a high calorie diet to produce milk and that feeding on demand should in most cases be sufficient, but there are mums out there who like to help babies in SCBU and like to donate a lot of milk each week to them too (like me) and this was a great way of helping me achieve this

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Fillyjonk · 14/02/2007 14:55

um

dunno what to say really

good luck with it

oats are not especially high in saturated fat

but these cookies are. Milk, butter and peanut butter are all pretty much pure saturated fat

but who cares

Twiglett · 14/02/2007 15:00

don't think the cookies have anything to do with your ability to donate milk .. but well done for that ... just the fact that you were expressing in the first place would produce it

Fillyjonk · 14/02/2007 16:43

have tried them

will say they are very nice

I substituted chestnut puree for peanuts (12p a jar at tescos

won't help the waistline though but hey

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determination · 14/02/2007 19:58

Fillyjonk,

Theres a surprise after spouting how bad they are for you, that you actually said they are very nice!! and if you are bfing you will prob notice that you will start squirting in the shower!!

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Fillyjonk · 15/02/2007 07:51

oh lol

I'm afraid I do eat all the components of these quite regularly already

no they were lovely. That was never in question though

redshoes · 17/02/2007 20:14

Fillyjonk, is chestnut puee always 12p or did you get a bargain?

redshoes · 17/02/2007 20:14

puree even

Fillyjonk · 17/02/2007 21:28

lol no

i got a post xmas bargain.

I have, in the past,made chestnut puree from chestnuts I collected myself and was SO glad not to have to do that again this year

FrannyandZooey · 17/02/2007 21:32

Filly

have you got a reasonably healthy biscuit recipe, the sort you can cut into shapes? We have that need using, oh also honey. And bananas.

NotQuiteCockney · 17/02/2007 21:36

Oh, I put up my gingerbread recipe, that's reasonably healthy, lots of treacle. No eggs. And I do it 50/50 brown/white flour, and it works very well. Should I find it?

hercules1 · 17/02/2007 21:36

Is this a wind up thread?