Banana Muffins - Easy Healthy Recipe

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Healthy muffins for a PMS pick-me-up.

If out-of-whack hormones turn you into Mrs. Hyde every month, these fluffy treats are your antidote. In addition to adding to your breakfast food arsenal, bananas provide cramp-busting potassium and vitamin B6, a hormone regulator that may help reduce water retention, depression, and other PMS symptoms. And buy yogurt that delivers calcium and vitamin D: Thedynamic duo has been shown to slash PMS symptoms by up to 40 percent. Add magnesium-rich walnuts to the healthy muffin mix, it's like you've taken a giant chill pill - - the mineral, which may reduce irritability and stabilize blood sugar, can help you control PMS - fueled "I want to devour everything within a 20-mile radius' urges

Ingredients

• 1 1/4 cup oatmeal
• 1/2 cup rice flour
• 1/4 cup ground faxseed
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 2 eggs, beaten
• 1/4 cup plain yogurt
• 3 medium, ripe bananas, mashed
• 1/2 cup agave syrup
• 1/3 cup grapeseed oil
• 1/4 cup walnut pieces

Details

Servings 18
Preparation time 10mins
Cooking time 32mins

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat oven to 375 degrees

In a large bowl, whisk together oatmeal, flour, flaxseed, baking powder, and baking soda.

In a separate bowl, combine eggs, yogurt, bananas, syrup, and oil. Add flour mixture and fold in walnuts.

Divide batter into paper-lined muffin cups. Bake for 20 - 22 minutes or until tops spring back when lightly touched. Cool on a wire rack

Per muffin: 147 calories, 7 g fat (1 g sat), 103 mg sodium, 30 g carbs, 2 g fiber, 3 g protein