Five minute healthy chocolate pudding

No-cook five minute healthy chocolate pudding: perfect for a brown bag lunch, a healthy snack or a guilt-free dessert. #backtoschool #glutenfree 

OK. Labor Day was yesterday so now I can be excited about fall and back-to-school time!

(Although I refuse yet to be excited about pumpkin. Plums and apples haven't even had their chance to shine yet, people. Let's save all the pumpkin hooha for October, shall we?)

Anyway, back to back to school. I'm not going back to school nor are my dogs (although they could probably use it), but I'm excited regardless. And the reason I'm excited is this super easy, five-minute healthy chocolate pudding.

Yes, pudding. Why do pudding cups excited me? Because I pack lunches. Healthy lunches. And who could possibly say no to a healthy chocolate pudding cup in his lunch bag?

Not Mr. Ninj, the recipient of my healthy lunch bags.

Let's be honest. Whether you're 8 or 48, it's pretty sweet to have a little dessert-y type item in your lunch bag to finish off your noontime meal. In fact, it has been proven that eating something sweet at the end of a meal signifies to your brain that you're full and you should stop wanting to eat more food. (It's a true fact because I read it somewhere once. Yep, super scientific, you can quote me on it.)

Heck, I even went out of my way to style the photos of my five-minute healthy chocolate pudding in such a way that the lunch-bag-packing intention was entirely obvious.

Other than the cute packaging and styling, what makes me so giddy about this pudding is the healthy and stealthy snack factor. How so? This healthy chocolate pudding is smooth, creamy, chocolatey -- all thanks to silken tofu! Squeeeeee! There's tons of yummy protein from the tofu hidden inside this amazingly yummy snack that's also sweetened only with honey.

Moreover, there are only five ingredients total (tofu, honey, unsweetened cocoa powder, vanilla and a pinch of salt) and it only takes five minutes to make (just whirl it all up in a food processor). OMG, yes -- five minutes! You could jump out of your chair right now, go make this pudding and be back in your chair in five minutes.

How cool and easy is that?

And, if you don't pack your or someone else's lunch or if you eschew plastic containers in favor of glass, don't worry. This five-minute healthy chocolate pudding is for you, too. Look: you get your very own photo of the pudding in its classy adult incarnation, so you don't feel like you're eating your kid's Jello pudding cup.

Do you brownbag your work lunch or send your family off with their own sack lunches? Are you completely jazzed to tuck a healthy chocolate pudding cup into the bag this week? Leave a comment: The Ninj wants to know.

5 Minute Healthy Chocolate Pudding

(adapted from Cooking Light)
I used dark chocolate cocoa powder for the pudding in these photos; regular, lighter cocoa powder works just as well if you prefer it.

Ingredients:
24 ounces light silken tofu, drained (I use Mori-Nu brand)
1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1/2 cup honey
3 teaspoons vanilla
pinch of salt

Directions:
Add all the ingredients to a food processor and process until smooth. Spoon the pudding into 4-ounce containers, cover and chill.

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