Healthy Oat & Fruit Muffins (2.5 points value Weight Watchers)

Mmmm yummy, here's a low fat, low point muffin recipe for all you weight watchers out there.

ENJOY!!

Healthy Oat & Fruit Muffins (2.5 points)

1/2 cp Wheat Flour

1/2 cp White Flour

1 cp Old Fashioned Oatmeal ( I have also substituted 5 grain cereal)

1/4 cp Wheat Germ

1 tsp baking powder

1 tsp baking soda

1/4 cp splenda (can substitute honey, sugar or any desired sweetner)

3/4 tsp salt (can be reduced or omitted)

1 tsp vanilla

1 tsp cinnamon

2 ripe bananna's mashed

1 egg

1/2 cp applesauce

1/3 cp craisins (can subsitute raisins, or fresh fruit)

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees

2 Combine dry ingredients

3. Combine wet ingredients

4. Add wet ingredients to dry ingredients

5. Stir carefully just until dry ingredients are moistened DO NOT OVER STIR

6. Spray muffin tin with oil spray or use muffin papers

7. Fill muffin cups 2/3 full

8. Bake for 18 minutes turning pan 1/2 way through or until toothpick inserted comes out clean.

9. Makes approx 9 muffins

ENJOY!!! For weight watchers points value is 2.5 per each muffin

Goodbye Spring, Hello Summer

It has been difficult to fit in time to keep up the blog as I had wished. A whole month has passed since I last posted, school and work has occupied much of my time over the month of June. I was able to get out and shoot some pics from the gardens between the rain showers, studying and working. Even though the weather has not been kind to us we have been able to enjoy beautiful floral bouquets, fresh herbs and salad greens from the gardens.

Planting continues and we are waiting patiently for the vegetable plants to start producing. IF the sun ever decides to shine, we should be seeing some raspberries soon. The spinach and radishes are beginning to come in now and we are eagerly awaiting; zuchini, greenbeans, soybeans, broccoli, cabbage, beets, carrots, tomatoes, peppers, eggplant and other goodies.

A pictoral tour

Since my first post, the arrival of decent spring weather has allowed us to get outside and prepare the grounds for the growing season. Early crops of flowers, perennial herbs, lettuces and rhubarb have already been harvested and put to use in the kitchen. The first crop harvest was mint for the mint juleps to celebrate the 135th running of the Kentucky Derby. The lettuce crop has been bountiful providing lot's of fresh greens for salads. Memorial Day celebrations included a rhubarb pie with fresh from the garden rhubarb and a grilled salmon complemented with a fresh dill dijion sauce.

Below is a slideshow that I put together of pictures that I shot around the grounds of flowers, herbs & veggies. In future posts I will include recipes.

Becoming Blog Savvy

Over the past couple of days I have been weaving my way around the WWW catching up on the latest communication technology, more specifically blogging and twittering. Here I am making an attempt at my first blog. Not at all sure what is going to go on here but I've got some ideas that I'm sure will evolve over the next few days once I am comfortable moving around and setting up the blog page(s). I'm always game to learn something new. Stay tuned for future posts.