31st October 2014
Strength – a river cuts through a rock, not because of
its power but its persistence.
Good morning, I’m up early and off to a training day
today with my Weight Watcher colleagues, I also get to sit next to my bestie
all day which is a bonus!
So not only is it Friday, it’s Halloween, candy and
sweets will be in houses everywhere, not mine thankfully, we celebrate by
closing the curtains, turning the lights off and pretending we’re out – sorry true
killjoys here as far as the tradition of trick or treating goes. I can’t handle having bowls of treats in my
house at the moment, I’m struggling not to eat anything and everything so
temptation cannot be around me!
Another successful day yesterday, I’m still eating more
than I probably need but it’s all Filling & Healthy foods so that’s progress! I also gave the tube of Pringles and bag of
Haribos away that I’d used in my meetings all week, I knew if I took them home
we’d have eaten them!
I made muffins for breakfast yesterday though, they were
delicious and only 4pp each,
Raspberry and Banana Muffins
4pp each
Prep
time: 15 min Cook time: 25 min
Serves: 8
Ingredients
200 g
Plain White Flour
2
teaspoons (level) Baking Powder
8
tablespoons Artificial Sweetener, Granulated (such as Splenda)
100 g
Raspberries, frozen, briefly thawed
1 medium
(raw) Egg, whole
1
teaspoons (level) Vanilla Extract
50 g
Butter, melted
100 ml
Semi Skimmed Milk
1 medium
Banana, ripe, mashed
Instructions
Preheat
the oven to Gas Mark 6/200°C/400°F. Place 8 paper muffin cases into a muffin
tray, or use squares of greaseproof paper.
Sift the
flour and baking powder into a large mixing bowl. Stir in the sweetener and
raspberries.
Beat
together the egg, vanilla extract, melted butter and milk. Stir into the dry
ingredients with the mashed banana until just combined. Avoid overmixing and do
not beat. The mixture will be quite lumpy, but there should not be any traces
of dry flour. Spoon into the paper cases.
Bake for
20-25 minutes until risen and golden. Cool on a wire rack.
I didn’t
have 8 tablespoons of sweetener but I did have about 2tbsp and some sachets of
vanilla flavoured sweeteners so I added about 8 of them as well. They worked, I like warm muffins for
breakfast occasionally, especially when it’s miserable and grey outside - it’s
like sunshine in a cake case! Muffins
are also really easy to make it has to be said, these Nigella ones are mmm too;
Chocolate banana muffins
The
recipe says makes 12 (6pp each) I made 13 and brought it down to 5pp each.
In
Nigella’s words;
“most
muffins are at their best pretty well straight out of the oven, the bananas in
the mixture make sure these beauties keep their moist, eat-me texture long
after those less favoured have staled and lost their allure.”
3 very
ripe or overripe bananas
125 ml
vegetable oil
2 large
eggs
100 grams
soft light brown sugar
225 grams
plain flour
3
tablespoons best-quality cocoa powder (sifted)
1
teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
1. Preheat the oven to
200°C/400°F/gas mark 6 and line a 12-bun muffin tin with papers. Don’t worry
about getting special papers: regular muffin cases will do the job.
2. Mash the bananas by hand or with
a freestanding mixer. Still beating and mashing, add the oil followed by the
eggs and sugar.
3. Mix the flour, cocoa powder and
bicarb together and add this mixture, beating gently, to the banana mixture,
then spoon it into the prepared papers.
4. Bake in the preheated oven for
15–20 minutes, by which time the muffins should be dark, rounded and peeking
proudly out of their cases. Allow to cool slightly in their tin before removing
to a wire rack.
What am
I doing sharing cake recipes with people who are trying to lose weight! Well as we’ve discussed this week, you can
eat anything you want as long as you track it and it’s within your
allowance. Ignorance isn’t bliss, don’t
pretend you’re not going to have the foods, don’t try to resist the good stuff forever,
that won’t work long time.
If like
me you’re a foodie, then you have to find a way to have your cake and eat it,
not just look longingly at photos of them on Facebook or in shop windows!
Yep you
can eat niceness, my yesterday looked like this;
Breakfast
– 2 muffins (8pp)
Lunch –
salmon, brown rice & peas – (12pp)
Tea - Liver
and mash (8pp)
Yep cake
for breakfast, why not, a little of what you fancy does you good, there were
banana and raspberries in them, I rarely eat fruit so at least I did yesterday!
Right I’m
off to get ready for a day with a bunch of witches, I mean leaders ‘-) tee hee!
Have a
fabulous Friday BeYOUtiful and remember YOU CAN!
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