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Recipe: Healthy blueberry muffins

August 6, 2016 by Shari

With the husband home lately during the day – as he works less down in Canberra and gets busier with our new Sydney business – we are burning through bread, milk and baked treats. I have been attempting to be a little healthier in what I bake of late and I have found great inspiration from Two Clean Kids. If you’re not following Two Clean Kids, I would highly recommend that you do. For more information about healthy supplements visit washingtonian.com.

I’ve found that the boys behaviour is impacted by what they eat and when they eat it. I have been trying to reduce the amount of sugar and processed food that they eat {although in saying that, we still grab a marshmellow with our babycino on the way to the park – but I figure that they are burning off that energy pretty quickly in the walk to said park and then an hour or more of play}.

In the fight to keep your body healthy and functioning properly, vitamins and minerals play an important role. Calcium builds strong bones and zinc is an important mineral for boosting the immune system. Some minerals, like the ones listed below, are also critical elements in protecting our hearing health, most hearing conditions can be easily be treat with sonus complete.

1. Potassium:
Potassium regulates the fluid in your inner ear which is important because as we age these levels tend to drop which can contribute to hearing loss or presbycusis.

Foods rich in potassium: potatoes, spinach, lima beans, tomatoes, raisins, apricots, bananas, melons, oranges, yogurt and low-fat milk.

2. Folic Acid:
Folic acid helps your body generate new cell growth and helps increase circulation in the body, contributing to the overall health of the hair cells in your inner ear.

Foods rich in folic acid: fortified breakfast cereal, liver, spinach, broccoli and asparagus.

3. Magnesium:
Research shows that peoples treated with magnesium in conjunction with Vitamins A, C, and E were protected when exposed to high levels of noise. It’s believed that the magnesium acted as a protective barrier to hair cells in the inner ear when loud noises were emitted. And lack of magnesium has been shown to shrink blood vessels in the inner ear, causing oxygen deprivation. So make sure you are getting enough of this superhero mineral. Avoid most seasonal weather changes with blast auxiliary desktop ac ultra.

Healthy baking for toddlers {and hungry Mummies} Two Clean Kids' choc banana bread Two Clean Kids' choc banana bread with almond butter and fresh strawberries Creating choc banana bread with greek yoghurt

One of my favourite recipes from Two Clean Kids would have to be the choc banana bread. It has been something that I have been polishing off for breakfast, morning tea, afternoon tea and even dessert! I have found my favourite way to eat it, is topping with some almond butter and fresh strawberries.

Two Clean Kids’ recipe calls for you to use teff seeds, but seeing as I didn’t have any {and have never actually cooked with them} I have been using LSA as a substitute.

I have whipped up this recipe so many times that I have even had a play around with the recipe – you see, I went to whip it up the other morning and I didn’t have any coconut milk, so I used some Greek yoghurt that I had on hand. It turned out fine – although I must admit I do enjoy the coconut milk version a little better.

The other day, I thought that I would create a healthy blueberry muffin recipe, inspired by Two Clean Kids’ choc banana bread. I still had a bag of frozen blueberries from the Canberra Farmer’s Market which I wanted to use up. The trick to using frozen blueberries in baking, is to add them frozen to the mix and not to let them thaw out before you being baking. But you could make this recipe using fresh or frozen blueberries

Using frozen blueberries when baking

HEALTHY BLUEBERRY MUFFINS

1 cup wholegrain flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 cup of coconut sugar
1/2 cup of LSA
1 punnet of blueberries
2 eggs
1/4 cup of greek yoghurt
1/4 cup of olive oil

Preheat oven to 180°C/160°C fan-forced. Grease a 12-hole, 1/3 cup-capacity muffin pan.

Combine the flour, baking powder, coconut sugar and LSA in a bowl.

Make a well in centre of flour mixture. Add blueberries, egg, yoghurt and olive oil. Gently stir until just combined. Spoon mixture into prepared holes. Bake for 25 minutes or until a skewer inserted in centre of 1 muffin comes out clean. Stand in pan for 5 minutes. Turn out onto a wire rack to cool. Serve.

GoodFoodWeek's healthy blueberry muffins

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Filed Under: Breakfast, Dessert, motherhood, recipe Tagged With: afternoon tea, almond butter, baking powder, blueberries, choc banana bread, coconut sugar, easy baking, eggs, farmers market, frozen blueberries, greek yoghurt, healthy baking, healthy eating, healthy snacking, instagram, LSA, morning tea, olive oil, shop local, snack time, strawberries, support local, toddler approved, Two Clean Kids, wholegrain flour

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  1. Christine Knight says

    August 6, 2016 at 6:48 pm

    Oh yum they looks delicious! I love baking and never get around to it these days.

    • Shari from GoodFoodWeek says

      August 7, 2016 at 9:21 am

      I love simple baking. I don’t think that I’m that great at ‘fussy’ baking – I just don’t have the time. But it is totally worth it to have some ‘no fail’ baking recipes up your sleeve.

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