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Muffin Mania-Back to School Secrets
School is back in session and moms everywhere are adjusting to the early morning routine. Making lunches, serving a healthy breakfast, helping everyone get dressed for school and making sure all necessary items are in the backpack are just a few of the essential tasks that must be completed each morning. I remember a few secrets from school days that helped our family stay organized…
1. Lay out the childrens’ clothing the night before, including hair accessories, socks and shoes.
2. Organize the childrens’ backpacks the night before, making sure important papers, books and especially any permission slips or notes to be signed by a parent are completed. Get the sports/ dance/ music/art bags filled for after school activities.
3. Grab the brown bags or special lunch boxes the night before and fill with everything except the sandwich and place in the refrigerator. Then all you have to do in the morning is make the sandwiches.
4. Plan and prepare some healthy breakfast options so you are not rushed or stressed in the morning. Breakfast is a very important meal and a special time to connect and talk together and pray before everyone goes off to face their busy day.
I love to bake muffins and it is amazing how many delicious and nutritious foods you can add to a muffin. Muffins can be made ahead of time (they keep well for a few days in the refrigerator or for weeks in the freezer). Serve with fruit, yogurt or scrambled eggs for a super charged breakfast. They can also be wrapped and placed in their lunch boxes for a healthy snack.
Here are a few really YUMMY, kid friendly, adult craved muffin recipes:
Triple Berry Muffins
2 cups flour
1 cup whole wheat flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon …
Gluten Free Pumpkin Mini Muffins
This week, my mom and I are hosting a party where kids will be present! We wanted to find a healthy recipe for a morning snack that the children would especially enjoy! Not only are these muffins healthy (no flour, oil , butter or sugar!!), but they are the perfect size for a little snack. I found this recipe from Spokane Dinner Club and adapted it to become the Gluten Free Pumpkin Mini Muffins!
INGREDIENTS:
2 1/2 Cups of Oats
1 Cup Plain Non-Fat Greek Yogurt
1/2 Cup Honey
1 1/2 tsp Baking Powder
1/2 tsp Baking Soda
1 Cup Canned Pumpkin
1 TBS Homemade Pumpkin Pie Spice (Also used in our Pumpkin Cinnamon Rolls)
– 2 tbsp. ground cinnamon
– 1 tbsp. ground ginger
– 1 tsp. ground allspice
– 1 tsp. ground cloves
– ¾ tsp. ground nutmeg
(Optional) Mini Chocolate Chips, Raisins, Walnuts
DIRECTIONS: [Makes 45 Mini Muffins]
1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Spray muffin tins with cooking spray.
2. Combine the Oats, Baking Powder, Baking Soda, and Pumpkin Pie Spice in a mixing bowl. Combine all other ingredients in a blender. Mix together and add the oat mixture 1/2 a cup at a time. If you are using any other mix-ins, you can either stir them in after all other ingredients are blended together or sprinkle them on top of the batter in the muffin tin.
3. Divide batter into the prepared muffin tins and bake for 15 minutes.
ENJOY 🙂
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My “Goodness” Bars
When the warmth of the summer wakes you up in the morning with a hearty appetite or the mid-afternoon tiredness hits, here is a super healthy pick-me-up treat to grab for delicious flavor and high packed nutrition. There is a little bit of everything in these bars.
Ingredients
1 cup oats
½ cup sunflower seeds
½ cup toasted wheat germ
¼ cup hemp seeds
¼ cup chia seeds
½ cup dried apricots
½ cup pecans
½ cup raisins
½ cup dried cranberries
½ cup instant dried nonfat milk
¼ cup whole wheat flour
2 Tablespoons cinnamon
½ cup maple syrup
2 large eggs
1 large ripe banana cut into chunks
1 ½ teaspoons vanilla
Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray a 9 x 13 pan with nonstick spray. Combine all dry ingredients in a food processor-oats, sunflower seeds, wheat germ, chia, hemp, nonfat dried milk, whole wheat flour, including dried fruit and nuts and pulse until mixture is finely chopped. Add all wet ingredients-eggs, banana, maple syrup and vanilla and pulse until well mixed. Pour mixture into 9 x 13 pan and press down evenly with wet fingertips or a spatula. Bake until golden brown and firm to touch. 20 minutes was perfect in our oven. Cool in the pan and cut into 32 bars. ENJOY!!!!
What is your favorite go to snack bar?
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Healthy Apple Cake and more Super Bowl Treats
The SUPER BOWL is this coming Sunday and many of you will be gathering with family and friends to watch the game and celebrate. I am going to share a wonderful dessert recipe that is easy to make and healthy too and would be a delightful cake to take to any Super Bowl party. Before I share the apple cake recipe, I am including links to other recipes we have posted in the past that would also be excellent to make for any Super Bowl party.
Mexican Taco Cupcakes
White Vegetarian Chili
Salsa, Corn and Black Bean Salad
The “I’m Never Hungry for Dinner Kind of Salsa”
Hummus
Honey Whole Wheat Pita Bread
Tabooleh
Mexican Quinoa Salad
Rice Salad
Family Favorite Salsa
And don’t forget, the “”Magic button that you see on each one of these recipes is a link to a wonderful website where you can get nutritional information for each of these recipes.
Healthy Apple Cake
This apple cake is moist and full of flavor. You can make it gluten free and it is full of fiber, so as far as a healthy dessert recipe goes, this is a keeper. Since I chop all the apples in a food processor with the peel on and I also chopped the nuts and raisins together in the food processor, it is a quick and easy dessert to make and take to parties.
Ingredients
2 cups flour (you can use gluten free flour here without changing the taste or texture)
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons cinnamon
1 teaspoon nutmeg
1 ½ cups walnuts
1 cup raisins
5-6 large tart apples (4 cups when chopped)
½ cup oil (I use coconut oil)
1 cup sugar (you can use honey, coconut sugar or brown sugar)
2 eggs
1 …
Pumpkin Cinnamon Rolls
As you can see from our last few cooking posts, we LOVE pumpkin! So, surprise, surprise, I’m sharing another pumpkin recipe! Pumpkin Cinnamon Rolls! I like my healthy breakfasts- scrambled eggs, oatmeal, homemade granola. But, every once in a while, I really like making a “Fun Breakfast” aka not as healthy but still delicious 🙂 So, I figured fall would be the perfect time to try making pumpkin cinnamon rolls! They taste really good, and, also have a great consistency! I cannot always find healthy alternative ingredients, so I will give you the ingredients I used, but also include a few healthy alternatives to try if you want!
INGREDIENTS (Adapted from Chocolate-Covered Katie: The Healthy Dessert Blog) Makes approx 12 cinnamon rolls …
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Testing muffin recipes has been a hobby of mine since I was in high school and won a Sunset Magazine recipe contest for my Pink Pastry Bran Muffin recipe. Now that there is a craze for gluten free baked goods, I have been trying to create a moist, healthy, gluten free apple muffin.…
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A friend and I are in a very similar life situation right now – We are newly married, soon after the wedding we moved to a foreign country, and now we have lost our husbands to the “Dreaded 4th Term of SGU.” Needless to say, in just the first few weeks of 4th term, we already rarely see our husbands, and it will most likely only get worse. Our solution: Cook and Bake together to keep each other from missing our husbands too much! And, then in return, we get happier husbands with full tummies from our dinners and fun sweet treats! We had our first day and boy was it a success. We took a delicious-sounding recipe that another friend had given us and made it even better!
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Gammie’s Granola
There are very few things more satisfying than a bowl full of homemade granola with fruit and yogurt. I started making granola when I was a newlywed and once I perfected the recipe I just could not go back to the store bought. This recipe is the basic delicious crunchy style granola with many optional add-ins to encourage experimentation and offering the ability to customize your own favorite variety. Now that I am a grandmother -Gammie is my chosen name- it is now called Gammie’s Granola. Have fun experimenting and enjoy!
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Honey Whole Wheat Pita Bread
Here is a recipe that you will only believe actually works if you try it! This pita bread has the real pita pocket!! It is pretty amazing! You put a flat piece of dough in the oven and *POOF* a pocket appears! And, did I mention that they are DELICIOUS!! As you can tell, we Weisser Women love our Mediterranean food! We have given you the recipe for Hummus and we have given you the recipe for Tabooleh. Now, you will have the last recipe to make an unbelievably tasty trio!! Make all three for a delicious mediterranean dinner! Or, just eat it as a snack! YUM!
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