Clean Eating Blueberry Muffins

Clean Eating Blueberry Muffins

My daughter loves muffins in her lunch or for a snack and these are delicious! I love that I can pack her a lunchbox full of clean eating food, it gives me so much peace of mind as a mother. 

This recipe was adapted from Eat Well, Live Well & provided by 100 Days of Real Food (Lisa Leake)

Ingredients:

2 ripe bananas, mashed

1/3 cup of milk

1/4 cup of coconut oil

1/3 cup of honey

1 egg

1 3/4 cup of whole-wheat pastry flour

1 3/4 cup fo rolled oats

1/4 cup flaxseed (I was out of flaxseed & they turned out great without it)

3 tsp baking powder

1 tsp cinnamon

1 cup fresh or frozen blueberries

Directions:

-Preheat oven to 350. Line muffin plan with paper cups or silicone liners

-In a large bowl, combine bananas, milk, coconut oil, honey, and egg

-Add dry ingredients and mix until well incorporated.

-Fold in blueberries

-Divide evenly into 12 muffin cups

-Bake 25-28 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the middle of the muffin comes out clean.

-Cool on a wire rack.

Lunch Brigade Momma....I need you!

We started school three weeks ago, which means I have packed lunch for 15 days...and many of those days I opened my daughter's lunch box at the end of the day to find she hadn't eaten much of what I packed.

I really tried to mix it up this year. I got her a cute Hello Kitty thermos for mac-n-cheese or oatmeal. Day one, she loved her warm mac-n-cheese and was so excited for it the next day....but the thermos came home full! UGH! So, we moved on to apple cinnamon oatmeal, she LOVED it and ate it for two days and then she didn't want it anymore. So, I am at a loss!

I do my best to provide my daughter with healthy food. I choose to buy organic food for my family, as I don't want any of us ingesting synthetic pesticides, chemical fertilizers, or antibiotics. Organic and non-GMO give me piece of mind that I am fueling our bodies with healthy nutrition. And all that matters to my daughter is that her food tastes good. What I love is that she well trained to seek out the organic label when shopping. So, now that she is 7, I have started to let her choose her snacks at the store, I just point her to the section she can choose from and off she goes.

So, I am now on a mission, a mission to get her to eat her lunch and enjoy it! This means I need to be changing it up and giving her a bigger voice in what she wants to eat.

So, here is day ONE, We got new lunch containers and some organic snacks that she picked out. I CAN NOT get this child to eat any bread other than potato bread, so that is where I give in. I am going to work on some new lunch ideas and share them right here! Because I know most of us need help with this!