These muffins are so useful in controlling the ‘mindless margin.’ Each muffin is 100% whole wheat, made with extra virgin olive oil, no added sugar, bananas and nuts – perfect for breakfast on the run, snack, or dessert at less than 100 calories. If you usually buy the 300-calorie white flour fatty muffins – you’ve saved 200 calories. Remember to redefine the 200 calories as 20 pounds in a year – I think that’s very motivating. No matter if your focus is Mediterranean-style eating, managing the ‘mindless margin’ or eating a healthy diabetic diet – you can accomplish it with these muffins.

Ingredients:

One recipe Whole Wheat Muffins.
3/4 cup chopped almonds or other nuts
¼ teaspoon banana flavoring
1 ½ cups mashed banana (use applesauce, if you don’t have enough banana)
Cinnamon and sugar, if desired

Directions:

Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Coat the standard 12-cup muffin tin with vegetable spray.

Mix the dry ingredients in the Whole Wheat Muffin Recipe and the nuts.

Mix the two extra large eggs or ½ cup egg substitute, the milk, the oil, and the bananas and flavoring.

Mix the wet mixture with the flour mixture. Do not over mix. Fill the muffin tins. Sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar mixture, if desired. Bake for 16 to 20 minutes. Remove from the muffin tin. Can be frozen.

Moist and flavorful muffins - don't feel deprived when benefiting from the mindless margin.