Easy and Amazing Banana Bread
Ingredients:
4 very ripe bananas, mashed
1/3 cup coconut oil or grass-fed butter, melted
4 free-range eggs
1 tsp vanilla
1 ½ tsp cinnamon
½ cup organic coconut flour (do not try to substitute
another flour, it will not work)
1 heaping tsp baking soda
¼ tsp salt
optional add-ins: 1/3 cup dark chocolate chips, walnuts,
pecans, slivered almonds, raisins, dried fruit, etc.
Directions:
Mix all ingredients together and pour into muffin tins and
bake on 350 degrees for 20 min or until done.
(This recipe is adapted from primallyinspired.com)
I always have bananas at home sitting on my kitchen counter-
it is a staple in my home. My family eats bananas with breakfast, as a snack by
itself, with a nut butter or blended in either a veggie or a fruit smoothie. When
they start to get too ripe, I peel them and freeze them.
The other morning I decided to make a treat for breakfast.
I had read about this recipe and decided to give it a try.
It did not have sugar or grains and using coconut flour would be a first for my
baking talents!
I woke up early to bake so that once the muffins were in the
oven the sweet aroma would make a wonderful treat for my family as they awoke.
Well, it wasn’t as much of a hit as I had imagined! My 13yr
old daughter gave me the thumbs down. She said it wasn’t sweet enough. I was
crushed. For this review I lwoke up early and lost precious sleep. Really? I
asked as I sampled her muffin. I couldn’t say that I disagreed. They were moist
and good, but because they didn’t have any extra sugar (only from the bananas
themselves) they weren’t overly sweet. The overall consensus from my family was
that they were not a total bomb, they were just “good” not “great”. This
reveiew felt like mediocracy to me and I don’t settle for just average. Ugh!
This lead me to believe that it was the sugar (or lack there of ) that wasn’t
added that was the devil here in my muffin recipe.
We are so use to eating foods made with sugar that when we
take it out of our foods, our taste buds have to adjust. This isn’t a bad
thing. I have known many people to have major sugar addictions and it’s a hard
habit to break. But I am here to tell you that it can be done!
Here are 10 easy steps for dealing with sugar addiction:
Reduce or eliminate caffeine. The ups
and downs of caffeine include dehydration and blood sugar swings, causing sugar
cravings to be more frequent.
Drink water. Sometimes sweet cravings are a sign of dehydration.
Before you go for the sugar, have a glass of water and then wait a few minutes
to see what happens. Caution: soft drinks are now America’s number one source
of added sugar.
Eat sweet vegetables and fruit. They are naturally sweet, healthy
and delicious. The more you eat, the less you’ll crave sugar.
Use gentle sweets. Avoid chemicalized, artificial sweeteners and
foods with added sugar. Use gentle sweeteners
like maple syrup, brown rice syrup, dried fruit, stevia and barley malt.
