Showing posts with label healthy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label healthy. Show all posts

Sunday, January 5, 2014

Time for a healthy change

We have a little white box on the bathroom floor, which to be very honest, I have avoided the past few months.  I stepped on it today and oh my, no more puddings for me.  I did join Weightwatchers 5 months ago and paid for a 6 month membership.  The six months ends a week before we leave for a vacation in Maui and I thought at the time since I paid for it, I would use it.  Wrong.

Signing into Weightwatchers and entering my weight, I find I've gained a few since my last visit to the page in August.  So time to get serious.  There's no way to lose what I want before vacation, but time to get serious.

A recipe for baked oatmeal on Pinterest from greenlitebites caught my eye a couple of days ago.  I love oatmeal.  Doesn't really matter if it's cooked for breakfast, baked in a cookie or on top of a crisp and I love muffins, so the recipe was the best of two worlds.  After the scale episode this morning, time to bake oatmeal.  I basically followed the recipe posted but made a few tweaks, so I'll post mine.



Preheat oven to 375 degrees

Mix together in a large bowl and let sit 5 minutes.

2 mashed bananas
1 cup skim milk
1/4 cup Splenda
2 beaten eggs
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 tsp salt
1 Tablespoon Baking Powder
3 cups Oats (I used large flakes)

Stir in 2 cups frozen berries, still frozen.

Divide batter into 18 muffin cups.  I lined mine with paper liners and high recommend this.

Bake 20 - 30 minutes or just the edges just start to turn brown.

Ready for the oven


Fresh from the oven


Best eaten with a spoon if eating while still hot

Oh my, these were so good.  Will I make these again?  You bet.  Best of all only 2 ww points.  I think they're going to be a perfect part of a breakfast-to-go or a mid morning snack.  Now that I've made my "healthy eating" declaration, I figure I'll be accountable.