Yesterday as I was making banana bread for Max, I realised how PCP friendly it was - no sugar, wholemeal flour etc. There is a little bit of butter so I wouldn't gorge on this but think of it as something different to have for breakfast.
I suggest that you use your carb grams for these. For example, I had one less slice of toast this morning and had a small slice of this topped with some yoghurt. Yum. Max likes it too so for those of you with little ones, this recipe is straight out of a baby book.
I am posting the recipe below if anybody likes to bake (or has helpers who can bake for them). Sorry I only have metric measurements for this.
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Banana bread
100 g wholemeal S.R. flour (or 100g plain plus 2 tsp baking powder)
50 gram butter (room temp)
1/2 tsp mixed spice
200g ripe bananas (about 2 med bananas)
75 g raisins (I used dates as I didn't have raisins)
1 egg lightly beaten
30 g well chopped walnuts - optional (I used pecans)
Preheat oven to 180°C. Grease a small loaf tin.
Sift flour into a large bowl and stir in Mixed Spice. Cut the butter into small cubes and rub into flour until mixture resembles fine bread crumbs. Make a well in the centre.
In another bowl, mash bananas. Mix in raisins and walnuts (if using). Then add egg. Mix together and then fold into dry ingredients. Mix until well combined. Pour into loaf tin and then pop into the oven.
Immediately turn down the oven to 160°C and bake for 45-60 minutes until cooked. Skewer should come out clean.
Allow to cool 5-10 minutes in tin and then turn onto wire rack to cool completely.
Serve with plain yoghurt or top with a cream cheese frosting. (I didn't make any cream cheese frosting obviously).
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To make it even healthier you could substitute applesauce for the butter and perhaps some canola oil but I couldn't be bothered researching it.
Today is so far so good. Got up early and have done the skipping already. Always lots more trips when I skip before breakfast but I keep in my head that I am fat burning and not winning any skipping skill awards. I kept moving for the entire 5 minutes and managed just over 500 reps per set.
Helper staying late tonight to mind Max so I can tackle that leg workout that I can see is ahead of me. It is going to be brutal but I am psyching myself up to it.
Awesome..Thanks for the recipe.. I love to bake :)
ReplyDeleteAnd congratz babe for removing 10 kgs from your body..awesome...keep it going....
Are you kidding? I love banana bread, but let's not kid ourselves: it's cake.
ReplyDeleteGranted this recipe is a relatively healthy version - but 50g of butter? That's over 40g of fat - most of it saturated (and a little more from the egg-yolk). Plus all the high-GI sugar from ripe bananas and raisins (a dried fruit). Add some calorie-dense nuts and you're looking at something much richer than normal bread. I'd have it for an indulgence, but I wouldn't kid myself that it's a 1-for-1 replacement with a slice of wholemeal.
I have friends who love this stuff and have been getting coffee with them at the weekends where this is the standard treat they have; I've just have to drink my black coffee and lie to myself that I don't want any anyway!
Totally sympathise with the skipping. I still haven't got a true flow after 9 weeks, so I'm guessing it won't happen. Main thing is to get up a sweat and push through though.
Richard loves banana bread. I might do a little swapping with applesauce and what not to see how it tastes. He will be away this weekend so maybe I'll play the little house wife and have baked goods for when he gets back.
ReplyDeleteNoel, I cut the loaf into around 30 slices and I had one for my breakfast. So about 1.5g of fat. The slice was around 1cm wide and 10 x 10 cm square. It wasn't like having a big slice of banana cake that they do at cafes. It was a small loaf tin. No where near the size of a slice of bread.
ReplyDeleteReally it is up to you of course but I just thought I would share.
Hi Tracey,
ReplyDeleteThanks for your message! lovely to hear from you. Just listening to the tunnell vision vid. not sure how I feel about it. Feel like I'm tunnell vision sometimes and the opposite some of the other time!
Over all feeling positive and motivated to finish strong.
You are doing awesomely.
And don't listen Noel's banana bread nay-saying!
xxx
Now that I've seen this post Kim, you've got me all geared up for it when I get back!
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