Yesterday, in my post On a Mission to Healthier Eating, I promised to share the recipe for an awesome whole wheat muffin recipe I came up with and the way I’ve made it more of a convenience food for me. So, if your ready for it, just keep reading.
Whole Wheat Honey Muffins
Ingredients:
- 2 cups whole wheat flour
- 1 tsp. baking powder
- 1 tsp. baking soda
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- 1 tsp. cinnamon
- 1/4 cup vegetable oil
- 1/4 cup unsweetened applesauce
- 1/2 cup honey
- 1 cup water
Directions:
- Mix all dry ingredients in large bowl.
- Combine wet ingredients in a separate bowl and then mix well with dry ingredients.
- Pour into prepared muffin pan.
- Bake at 375 for 20 to 24 minutes.
Yields: 12 muffins
The reason I called this awesome is because it’s not only healthy, but everyone in the family thought these muffins were delicious. My two year old rarely eats a whole muffin, but she gobbled this one up quickly.
How I’m Making Homemade More Convenient
Since I like to have some convenience foods on hand, like store bought mixes, I decided to make up my own. I simply mixed up a few batches of muffin mix, only the dry ingredients of course, and put them in individual zipper bags.
On the outside of the bag I listed the wet ingredients that would need to be added to the mix and the baking instructions. This way I’ve created my own little convenience food for those days I don’t want to or don’t have time to fix the muffins totally from scratch.
Another idea for storing your mixes would be putting them in plastic containers and then using labels containing the recipe information on the outside of the container. I may try this next time because those zipper bags can get pretty expensive.
Well, this is the beginning of our journey to eating healthier and I can use all the help I can get. That being said, if you have any advice or suggestions to help us along the way, please let me know by leaving a comment.
Also if you know of any really good healthy websites, or if you’ve got any great recipes, I’d love for you to share those with me.
Do you find cooking healthy challenging or is it just a way of life for you?
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Love, Love, Love this! i am always looking for healthier muffins, and this is so fun that you added the “pre-mix.” thank you…i will be using this for sure.
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We actually use canning jars for most things rather than plastic containers. If you pick the up on sale, the are very cheap - last forever, you can see through them and they look nice in your cupboard.
I have some ‘luggage type plastic sleeves” from the dollar store and we write on paper and slip it into the sleeve and tape the sleeve to jars, storage totes etc. it’s easy to change the content list that way!
Thanks for sharing your recipe!
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I love that idea Jenn! I actually have some extra jars sitting in the cabinet, but it didn’t cross my mind to use them for this. Thanks for the great idea!
Or if you don’t find canning jars on sale, sometimes you can find them at thrift stores. They’ll need new lids, but that’s all.
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what a great idea re: making up muffin mix ahead of time! And, that recipe sounds great. I have a no-oil muffin recipe that is quite similar, except I have replaced all the oil with applesauce — I bet it might work in this recipe too.
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These sound delish!! I love trying to find healthier muffins for breakfast and this looks to fit the bill. Thank you for posting!
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These sound great! I’ve never tried whole wheat muffins before, so this looks like a good start for me.
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Looks like a delicious healthy muffin!
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Sounds like something I’ll bookmark and try later for sure! If I can toot my own horn, my website is actually designed to help folks take baby steps to better nutrition (and earth-friendliness and frugality along the way). Come on over and check it out!
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MMMMMMM. I love these. Thanks for sharing.
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Great idea, making premixes and writing the directions on the ziplock bag!! Thanks! Thanks for linking up to Tempt My Tummy Tuesday.
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Such a great idea and time saver! I like the idea of the glass bottles too, they would fit on the shelf better. However, I do put most of my mixes in a clear shoe box and this keeps them neat and orderly on the shelf.
Having mixes like this, in the zip-locks, is perfect for camping. When I make my menu for camping, I always mix up the dry goods into bags to make the food preparation a lot faster and easier. I also make sure the rest of the ingredients I need and instructions are written on the bag.
Thanks for sharing!
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How interesting that you mentioned taking the mixes camping. I’m going camping tomorrow and I’ve got one of my muffin mix bags on the counter and ready to go. Thanks for sharing.
This sounds great! I was sorry to hear about your son’s condition. What a blessing that there are non surgical methods for helping at this point! I’ll have to try these muffins. I usually put my mixes in old glass jars I save. If you need to label it a piece of clear tape and a sharpie does the trick.
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These look yum…
i’ll be baaaaaaaaaaaaack.
Can you post back at me and tell me you had the honey muffins so I don’t loose track of you, heheh?
please?
pretty please?
That ziplock idea is great, I did that with pancake mix–I must learn to write on the bag though so that I know what it is and what to add because I found an unlabelled ziplock in my cupboard a few weeks ago and have NO clue what it is….what could I add to it I wonder? I’ll call it “Fun in a Bag”!
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Just wondering, will these work without applesauce? Not sure if we have that in Australia. Thanks!
Yes, definitely. You can just replace the 1/4 cup of applesauce with oil making the total amount of oil used in the recipe 1/2 cup instead of 1/4 cup. Obviously, they will not be quite as healthy this way, but should turn out fine.
Oooh I made them today, they are really tasty and were fantastic. Thanks so much!! I’ve been looking for an easy no fuss recipe like this.
Sheryl
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