Dear Fitness Challenge Trial Day; I began to test out a few of the new recipes we are doing for our challenge before I recommended them; the first was this morning. First of all….The recipe is called Power Pancakes…..in retrospect I think the reason they are called power pancakes is because you need a whole lotta power to get them down. Secondly, when I created this concoction- I realized they don’t look like pancakes at all….I also realize that they are certainly going to be the most nutritions thing that I have consumed in quite some time and finally, I realized that I would have to smother them in 2 cups of syrup to trick my children into eating them. After I took the first bite, I looked back at the recipe- surely I missed a scrumptious ingredient that would make these edible (which would not be that uncommon given my fantastic culinary skills 
but NOPE, I sure didn’t. Then Aslyn took her first bite and said with a disgruntled and peplexed look on her face “Is this sausage?” Um…….POWER PANCAKES will NOT be on our Fitness Challenge Diet.
Ps- DO NOT FEAR participants….I have PLENTY of tried and true breakfast options for us that will NOT leave us gagging…..this just happened to be a test option….IT FAILED. =)
Here is the recipe- just in case you were curious…. DO NOT ATTEMPT THESE AT HOME- I REPEAT- DO NOT ATTEMPT THESE AT HOME!
6 egg whites
1/2 cup of Low Fat cottage cheese
1 scoop whey protein
i/2 cup oatmeal uncooked
1/4 cup wheat germ
1/4 cup flax seed
1tsp baking powder
1 tpsp canola oil
1/2 tsp cinnamon
Priceless!