Healthy Muffins for Children?

[Lillylolly]

You check out Annabel Karmel for other great child friendly meals.

[Orchid]

That is such a good idea, DB. You sound so organised.

Wow december, I hardly have the patience to put away my grocery let alone organize them in ziplocs. But it is a great idea.

[december]

Wow december, I hardly have the patience to put away my grocery let alone organize them in ziplocs. But it is a great idea.

It's not so bad, I swear. DH clear the table and do it all in 20 minutes. We only have to do it once every few grocery trips... or a little bit here and there (like, we bought grapes and it took 5 minutes to rinse them and put them in a few snack bags. That was it.) It sounds like more work than it actually is!!

[Orchid]

Those muffins are D.R.Y. The comments said so but I served them with syrup for dipping and that seemed to help!

Yikes, bummer! Yeah looking into the comments are helpful, people suggest what they did to improve the recipe and stuff.

[atomic sagebrush]

When I have leftover oatmeal or Malt O Meal, I add it to muffins and they're really good. I just use the regular blueberry muffin recipe but replace the blueberries with the leftover oatmeal. I bet they would be good WITH blueberries in the muffins too!

[Lillylolly]

Great idea, Atomic. I love blueberry muffins made with fresh blueberries.

[Tweens&aBaby]

For muffins I just use a standard muffin recipe and substitute wheat flour. Sometimes I add a bit of wheat germ or flax or something. L seems to be a fan of broccoli and cheese mixed in. I thought the texture was god awful, but he really liked ones with scrambled egg, cheese and ham. DH dipped them in syrup. I thought they were nasty, but DH and L seem to like them.

Zucchini and carrot grated in go well too - I usually add cinnamon. Or I take whatever chopped veggies I have (broccoli, red pepper, carrots, cauliflower) and add that in. L's only a year and I can trick him a LOT at this age. I don't know how that would go over as he gets older....

I need to spend a day with you, so know so much stuff!!! Totally stalking you and taking notes. (not creepy stalking though BTW)

[Daisy Mae]

When I was doing Weight Watchers, I would make these easy WW muffins. Now mind you, these are not sugar free or probably even particularly healthy... but they taste really good and low in points. Even my boys would eat them. All you have to do is get a box of Spice cake mix and add a can of pumpkin. Then you add a little water to get the normal muffin consistency. I think I normally use the blender to help get all the chunks out and make it smooth. Then you bake the muffins in the oven on 350 (isn't that cake mix boxes suggest? sorry, I can't check right now as I am sitting in my kids' room so they will go to sleep.) YUMMY!