Omega 3 Muffins

Diet and Nutrition
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I know most of us here take fish oil caps and the like, but instead of popping 20 of the things a day, I like eating some fish here and there and flax seed, but it’s sometimes hard to figure out what to do with the stuff, you can sprinkle it on alot of things but it doesn’t make them too appetizing. I found a recipe I thought I’d share that rocks, I snagged it off the back of a flax seed box, and tweaked it a bit, I am addicted to these things I take them to work for breakfast and such, they taste great, and they are packed full of omega 3 which we all know we need…definately nicer than drinking down the oil or something

1/2 cup ground/ milled flax seed
1/2 cup whole wheat or rye flour
1/2 cup all purpose white flour
1/3 cup brown sugar, splenda etc,
I usually mix it 1/2 and 1/2
2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
1 egg beaten (use the brown free range eggs that are higher in omega 3)
1/2 cup skim milk
1 1/2 cups finely chopped apples
1 ripe banana mashed up
2 ounces natural low or no sugar etc applesauce (I substituted this for the oil in the recipe)
1/2 cup chopped walnuts (even more omega 3!)

Blend dry ingredients together in a bowl. In a seperate bowl, combine the egg, applesauce, banana and milk. Add the dry ingredients for egg mixture and stir until just blended. Fold in apples and nuts. Grease a 12 count muffin pan, and plop the mixture in I spray on the olive oil kind very lightly and can’t even taste it…bake at 400 degrees 18-20 minutes or until top springs back when touched. I hope someone makes these and tells me what they think, they may not be the heatlhiest things in the world but I eat these when I get a craving for something sweet and it is sort of like cheating without eating something really bad…

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Not so bad… work out how to add some protein powder to this recipe, and you have yourself some bombing muffins!

(Might even use less flour, and protein powder instead?)

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yeah I hadn’t thought of that, maybe you could subsitute 1/4 of a cup of that for the white flour since that’s the worst thing in it pretty much. It called for more flour in the original recipe anyway and only 1/4 cup of the flax so I had upped it to 1/2 and lowered the flour I will try that and see how it works out, can you bake protein powder or use it like that in recipes and it not taste funky or anything?

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depends on the kind of protein powder you use.

I hear that using something good like Metabolic Drive works fine for cooking.

I’ve used plain whey, and I found things became a little dry using it, but I intend to experiment more on different protein powders and cooking/baking in the future.

I would like to give Metabolic Drive a try, but I’m not sure it’s worth it having it shipped all the way from the states, and I haven’t found any suppliers here in austria, or in germany :frowning:

Anyway, my advice would be to just do some testing :slight_smile:

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use banana flavored Metabolic Drive and it would probaly taste real good