Sometimes I just want a cookie. 

But cookies are not on the Weight Watchers Simply Filling plan, unless I want to spend a few extra points. I like to reserve those for my nightly mini Coke (in a glass bottle, of course), and traditional cookies are a lot of points. Like 4 points per cookie. Ouch. Thankfully, I have some healthy cookie recipes stashed away in my Magical Mommy Binder. Here’s one that is simple to make and uses ingredients I almost always have on hand … and I’ll bet you do, too!

My favorite part about these cookies is how they fill me up and satisfy me in a way that regular cookies cannot.

Oatmeal-Banana Cookies Step-by-Step

I took photos of the steps, though they are really so easy I don’t know that you need them.

Start with your ingredients. The riper the banana, the sweeter your cookies!

Grinding up my oatmeal in the blender to make oatmeal flour.

Putting the main ingredients together.

Now mush the banana up and stir it all together.

Here is the cookie dough:

Now add any mix-ins you want. I tried some unsweetened carob chips today: 

Doesn’t this look yummy?

If you opt not to grind up your oatmeal, your batter will look like this:

Now drop balls on your cookie sheet and flatten them to make nice cookie shapes:

Voila! Cookies!

Here’s the cookies — the ones in the front are made with plain ol’ oatmeal, the ones in the back have the oatmeal ground up first:

I’m eating one of these cookies as I type up this post … they are so good. Eating healthy doesn’t have to mean eating boring food or depriving yourself. Thank goodness!