A Good Morning Start

Most of you are busy bee's like myself. Especially around Christmas time, the average hustle and bustle expands times a thousand! Making an wholesome balanced breakfast becomes way too time consuming, leading my desire for convenient fast good growing.  Undoubtedly,  you waist line gets bigger and your pockets slimmer. It's a horrible cycle America! So, this week, I vow to break that cycle by creating easy, healthy and accessible morning foods, that will not only keep me satisfied but alleviating the guilt I always get with my current routine of a caramel latte and lemon loaf from Starbucks (Don't judge me). 

This morning I adapted a recipe from Allrecipes.com called Seminary Muffins.  Seminary Muffins? Sounds kind of dry and boring right? Well, these muffins are nothing of the sort. Replacing white flour for whole wheat, these muffins are healthier and the ripe banana and applesauce makes theme killer moist. They also freeze very well. I got 14 regular size muffins out the recipe, and decided to freeze half of them. When ready to eat, just pop them in the microwave for 30 seconds and your ready to go. Today I paired a muffin with half an orange and green tea. I feel lighter already. Enjoy! 

Seminary Muffins

• Ingredients 
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• 1 egg
• 1 1/3 cups mashed ripe banana
• 3/4 cup packed brown sugar
• 1/3 cup applesauce
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 cup whole wheat flour
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 1/4 teaspoons salt
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1 cup quick cooking oats
• 1/2 cup chopped walnuts or pecans

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease one 12 cup muffin pan.
2. In a large bowl, combine egg, banana, brown sugar, applesauce and vanilla. In a separate bowl, sift together flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt and cinnamon.
3. Gently stir flour mixture and oatmeal into banana mixture. Fold in walnuts. Pour batter into prepared muffin cups.
4. Bake in preheated oven or 15 to 20 minutes, or until light brown. Remove muffins from pan and place on a wire rack to let cool before serving.