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Banana Nut Chocolate Chip Muffins

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banana nut chocolate chip muffinsIt looks like the crazy weeks are just going to continue.  I have been making an effort to find an organic place in South Florida or a trusted one online that I can order Grassfed Beef and Free Range Chicken from.  I tried on #farming #organic and now I tried on #Paleo and #Primal but still no luck.  I had I think 5 people favorite it but that is simple to get a response if someone actually responds.  No luck yet so if anyone knows a good place please let me know

Quick status update on my personal goal, I am 3 lbs away from hitting my first goal of dropping 25 lbs.  Pretty excited about that and it has really been super simple.  I have been eating good food, I am never hungry so that is a plus in my columns.  Exercise as you can tell has been folded in to my routine so I am sure that does help alot as well.

This recipe I am bringing you today is again from Julie and Paleomg.  Its a copy of her Banana Nut Chololate Chip Muffins.  Honestly if you are not following Julie you must! She is an amazing person but you all know that because I have stated that before.  I made these and my entire family went through them like nothing.  I wish I could say I had more than 1 but my 5 year old beat me to it.

Trust me make these!

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Banana Nut Chocolate Chip Muffins

Ingredients

  • 3 bananas, mashed with a fork
  • 3 eggs, whisked
  • ¼ cup maple syrup
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • ½ cup smooth almond butter
  • ¼ cup coconut flour
  • ¼ teaspoon cinnamon
  • ½ teaspoon baking soda
  • ½ teaspoon baking powder
  • pinch of salt
  • ½ cup chopped walnuts
  • ½ cup chocolate chips (I used Enjoy life but Julie recommends 72% Eating Evolved Baking Chocolate)

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees
  2. Mash bananas in a large bowl. Add eggs, maple syrup, almond butter, and vanilla extract and mix together.
  3. Then add coconut flour, cinnamon, baking soda and powder and a pinch of salt and mix well.
  4. Lastly, fold in walnuts and chocolate chips.
  5. Use an ice cream scoop to scoop batter into 9 cups of a silicone muffin pan.
  6. Bake for 25 minutes. Let cool before removing from silicone pan.
  7. Trust me if you do not have a silicone pan you may want to get one. I made my batch outside in a regular tin and I greased it really well but they still stuck. I ordered a silicone pan the following day!
https://www.tiltedfork.com/2014/04/banana-nut-chocolate-chip-muffins/

Banana, Almond Butter, Honey bites!

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Today I am bringing you a little snack that I have eaten for years (sub peanut butter instead of almond butter).  For as long as I could remember if I wanted to have a banana I would top it with peanut butter, but as you know peanut butter is a no no with paleo.  So I have modified this slightly and changed out the peanut butter with almond butter.  It actually works out really good and is a great snack, I sometimes have been known to eat this for breakfast 🙂 lol.

So time seems to have flown by in March, I am trying to figure out where it went!  Now that the end of March is really just a week away I have been trying to figure out what exactly I got accomplished in this month lol.  So on a personal goal I have set was to stay on Paleo this month and I have done that, the results are pretty great for me and my energy levels are actually amazing.  The only issue that I have from time to time is getting enough sleep but that is related to work and not the diet.  I think everyone knows how much stress a job can have on someone’s life and in my case I have to be available 24/7 365 so pretty much any time of day or night I can get a call.  But reality is its more of just the daily grind that has me more stressed out than the on call hours.  Anyway enough with that rant and lets take a look at this snack/breakfast item.

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Banana, Almond Butter, Honey bites!

Ingredients

  • 1 Banana
  • Almond Butter
  • Raw Honey

Instructions

  1. Take the banana and slice it any direction that you want
  2. Apply almond butter on top of the banana
  3. Take some raw honey and drizzle it on top of the banana/almond butter
  4. Eat and enjoy
https://www.tiltedfork.com/2014/03/banana-almond-butter-honey-bites/

Coffee Cake Banana Bread

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coffee cake banana bread

Wow this bread is incredible, like insane.  I did not come up with this, I grabbed this off a blog I have been following even before I went paleo, its PaleOMG.com.  Julie the owner of the blog is an amazing cook and I also like her stories that she uses to frame them, seems pretty down to earth.  So yes today’s post will include one of my favorite desserts that she makes, I kind of eat this for breakfast but it can easily be a treat so I am going to put it in both areas.

So the bake sale at my sons VPK went great all 52 cookies were gone and it looks like they want me to make some stuff for their graduation.  I make a pretty killer homemade Tres Leche (definitely not paleo friendly, not yet atleast).  So for their Christmas party I made that for the school party and I had a handful of people want me to cater them one which I don’t cater so I did not accept the offer.  I know I might be crazy but I think people can be far more critical when they pay for something than when it’s free so that’s why.  So after the Christmas party I was volunteered to make something for the bake sale and now apparently for the VPK graduation.  I’m just glad 5 and 6 year olds aren’t hard to please when it comes to sweets ;).

I am a bit all over the place today sorry, been pretty hectic 🙂 but back to the bread.  I saw this the day she posted it and I immediately went and bought bananas and set 3 of them aside to wait for them to brown.  I mean my picture really does this no justice but trust me its amazing.  If you have never checked out paleOMG I highly recommend it, bookmark it and visit it often!

Here is the recipe, again its Julie’s you can find the original here, the only original item on this recipe is the picture lol that is the bread I actually made.

I make no claim to this recipe at all, it is exactly as she has it on her site.

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Coffee Cake Banana Bread

Ingredients

    Ingredients
  • 3 brown bananas, mashed
  • ¼ cup maple syrup
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 3 eggs
  • ½ cup almond butter (or other nut/seed butter)
  • ¼ cup coconut flour
  • ½ teaspoon baking soda
  • ½ teaspoon baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon
  • pinch of salt
    • Topping
  • 4 tablespoons (1/4 cup) grass fed butter, at room temperature (or coconut oil)
  • 2 tablespoons coconut sugar
  • 2 tablespoons almond flour
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon
  • ¼ cup pecans, crushed

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease an 8.5×4.5 baking dish with oil then line the middle with parchment paper. It will make it easier to remove from the pan without it coming apart.
  2. In a large bowl, mix together bananas, maple syrup, vanilla extract, eggs, and almond butter.
  3. Then add coconut flour, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon and salt and mix well.
  4. Pour batter into baking dish. Place on a baking sheet.
  5. In a small bowl, add butter, coconut sugar, almond flour, cinnamon, and pecans. Use your hands to mix the toppings together.
  6. Place chunks of the toppings all around the top of the banana bread mixture.
  7. Place in oven to bake for 50 minutes.
  8. Remove from oven, place on cooling rack and let rest for 5-10 minutes before cutting and serving.
https://www.tiltedfork.com/2014/03/coffee-cake-banana-bread/