Healthy Chocolate Banana Muffins

I am one of the thousands of people who 'Like' Clean Eating Recipes on Facebook.  With a few rather mashable bananas around, I tried my first Clean Eating recipe today.  Almost.

Ingredients:
2 cups almond meal
2 ripe bananas, mashed
1/2 teaspoon gluten free baking powder
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1 teaspoon cinnamon
pinch of salt
1/4 cup Natvia (my first time using this)
1 vanilla pod, seeds only (I didn't have any so used a teaspoon of vanilla essence)
1 heaped tablespoon protein powder - they used white chocolate (this recipe is originally White Choc Banana muffins - obviously mine became just chocolate banana muffins)
2 whole eggs
2 egg whites
1/8 cup olive oil
slivered almonds to top

Method:
Preheat oven to 180C, line muffin tin with cupcake/muffin cases (I had to improvise with ripped bits of baking paper).
Combine all ingredients in a bowl and mix thoroughly.  Spoon about 1/4 - 1/3 cup mixture into each muffin case, top with slivered almonds, and bake for 25 minutes.  Remove from oven and cool on a wire rack.

So easy!  They do taste a bit healthy - I'm going to count this as a good thing though, as it will stop me eating the whole batch before freezing any for later. 

For the zone diet thing, I'm going to count each muffin as 2 lots of fat, 1 carb and 1 protein, at least until I find some nutritional information from the Clean Eating team.  So morning tea this week will be a healthy muffin, a small piece of fruit, and some cheese or an egg.  Unless I make some more protein balls which worked so well!

Wednesday January 25 - Banana Smoothie

I have a lot of milk to get through.  I had one more banana that was getting to the 'very ripe' stage.  Result: banana smoothie for breakfast.

Recipe: 1/2 cup milk, 1/4 cup yoghurt, 1 quite ripe banana, 1 tablespoon protein powder, 1 tablespoon psyllium husks.  Blend.  Result:  quite yummy.

I adhere as much as possible to the zone diet, so added a teaspoon of peanut butter on the side.  (I was tempted to mix the peanut butter with all the other ingredients like Joon in Benny and Joon, but resisted).  It still didn't feel like I'd had a proper breakfast, but coffee afterwards helped of course.  I wasn't hungry again for more than 4 hours so maybe it was just in my head.  The weather is still quite cool and rainy, but I think this could make it onto the hot weather breakfast options.