Low Fat Oatmeal Banana Bread
Not every morning in my life is filled with Chocolate Chip Buttermilk Pancakes and Chocolate Chocolate Chip Banana Bread… not when things like my ten year class reunion and bathing suit season loom just around the corner. For real friends, those are two scary things. At least I don’t have to go to my ten year reunion in my bathing suit. Can you imagine the horror!? Yea… so there’s always a silver lining.
I’d like to introduce you to Low Fat Oatmeal Banana Bread. If this bread were one of your dear friends from high school, it would be that friend who wore old lady shoes because they were the most practical, and played the trombone, and was the super smart editor of the school newspaper. This bread would be the friend that was super sensible, and sweet and just downright made you feel good about your day.
Go ahead, think of this Low Fat Oatmeal Banana Bread as your friend… and then it eat. No, there’s nothing weird about that.
This bread is packed full of happy, heart-healthy oats, cinnamon spice and crazy ripe bananas. It’s just the thing to throw together over the weekend, slice up, wrap individually, and freeze for breakfast for the entire week. I just grab a slice from the freezer as I’m running out the door, and by the time I have a chance to eat it, it’s perfectly defrosted. Of course the microwave and toaster oven work wonders too.
Low Fat Oatmeal Banana Bread
adapted from the Weight Watchers site
makes 1 loaf of 10 slices, 4 points per slice
- 1 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup packed brown sugar
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/4 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- 3 tsp canola or walnut oil
- 1 large egg, beaten
- 2 medium egg whites, beaten
- 3 large bananas, ripe
- 1 cup uncooked old fashioned oats
Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease and flour a loaf pan and set aside. In a large bowl, stir together dry ingredients including the oats and cinnamon.
In a smaller bowl, mash bananas with a potato masher or fork. Add oil and whole egg and mix thoroughly.
Add the wet ingredients to the dry and mix well. Batter will be fairly thick.
In a medium sized bowl, with an electric hand mixer, beat the egg whites until medium stiff peaks form. Fold the egg whites into the batter in three additions.
Pour batter into pan and bake until top of loaf is firm to touch, 45 to 50 minutes. Remove from oven and allow to cool in pan for 5 minutes. Flip out and cool on a wire rack for another 10 minutes. Slice loaf into 10 equally sized slices.
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YUM. I can’t wait to try this! Thanks, Joy!
i am ALWAYS on the hunt for new banana recipes and i can make this one fit into my new diet no problem!!!
thanks for sharing :)
I have never had oatmeal in banana bread – sounds perfect to make it more breakfast friendly. I wonder if I could sneak cardamom into this recipe…
Joy, I am laughing, because I am 40 days away from my 10 year high school reunion and am frantically exercising and trying to eat healthier in preparation for it!
This recipe looks wonderful – thanks for sharing!
Thank you for this Joy! I needed a healthy breakfast bread recipe. We made carrot muffins over the weekend but somehow my “healthy” intentions turned into the love child between a cupcake and a muffin. I love your use of walnut oil- brilliant. I have never thought to use mine in baked goods. What a great idea.
Joy, this looks DELICIOUS! and perfectly timed as we are working on losing a few pounds without giving up the loving shown through homemade bakedgoods!
I started two one pot gardens last night following your lead! When do we get an update of yours?
Thanks so much!
I <3 banana nut bread and the fact that it has oatmeal in it too…*sigh*. Just wonderful, Joy!
I lurv banana bread – just made vegan banana bread last night (with little pieces of dark chocolate)…it’s good energy food and I need it!
Looks fantastic! Can’t wait to try it!
you read my mind with this one. I have several ripe bananas hanging out in my freezer and I’ve been toying with the idea of tossing some oats into my banana bread to see what happens . . . now I can just steal your recipe instead! Thanks!
I have several desperate bananas sitting on my counter, waiting to be “repurposed” into something delicious that is NOT my same old banana bread recipe. Here it is!
This is perfect! I have 3 bananas on my counter that are past their peak, and I needed a recipe for them. This looks great, thank you! :)
I’ve made Cooking Light’s banana bread a few times with great results, but I like the idea of adding the oats for something different. It looks delicious!
I have made Cooking Light’s banana bread several times with great results, but I like the idea of adding the oats for a little something different. This looks delicious!
This looks so amazingly yummy, a great breakfast snack. Thanks, cant wait to try this.
Love this one! I think I’ll make a loaf this weekend. Thanks!
thanks for posting something on the healthy side! i bet i can make this for my mom for mother’s day and she’d be in banana oatmeal heaven!! :)
This looks so good! I will defintiely be trying it! Thanks!
Looks yummy and I love that’s it’s low fat. I can’t wait to try it.
I laughed so hard at your description because you painted such a perfect picture of my best friend (except she plays the trumpet instead of the trombone–in a marching band, nonetheless). I am going to send her this great recipe and hope she gets the reference! I know we will both find it delicious either way.
Mmmm, we can just smell it.
I just threw up a little in my mouth at the thought of going to my ten year reunion in a bathing suit. The horror. And my reunion is coming up, too. Maybe I need to stop making your apple crisp and move on to this bread. Maybe…
Should I feel ashamed that I thought “phallic symbols!” in the second photo of the bananas? Nah…haha
This looks like a really delicious and fairly nutritious quick bread! Do you happen to know about how many cups of mash 3 large bananas would make? I have been reading about the flexibility of banana bread in the fact that you can really use any mashed fruit in the place of bananas. I really want to try papaya in this recipe, but have no idea how much to add!
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The immature folks who read this site will have something to say about that bowl of bananas, but not me, no sir. That bread looks divoon ;)
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I’ll be making these in a few days when my bananas turn black! A great deviation from the usual banana bread!
Yummy. Would it be so wrong if I slathered butter all over this lovely, healthy bread? I mean, it’s mostly the thought that counts, yes . . . ? No?
yes! something healthy to bake. I love baking but feel guilty about eating all the tasty cookies, etc. that I am forced to eat (ok..not really forced.. willingly eat)! Thanks for sharing this recipe! Can’t wait until my bananas are really ripe
We’ve recently started making banana bread with some frequency, because we’ve been so busy we can’t seem to remember to get through a bunch of bananas before they’ve gone off. And subsequently I’ve become addicted to banana bread toast with peanut butter. Very thankful to have a low fat alternative recipe to the old reliable. I won’t feel so guilty about the peanut butter. Thanks!
That is my kind of bread. It looks and sounds amazing.
Yum! I can’t wait to try this.
Oooo, this looks yummy! Can’t wait to try it :)
Looks yummy! And I’m definitely excited about the low-fat part because I put on a couple pounds in pastry school and would love to get rid of them before I hit the beach….
I’ll definitely have to give this a try!
I’m gald for a healthy banana bread recipe. i’ve been on a diet and its soo hard! Doesn’t it seem like you are hungrier when you are on a diet than not? Anyways, thank you for this yummy recipe :) I just made a healthy blueberry coffee cake. I couldn’t even wait for it to cool, lol!
Oh looks delicious and low fat ! yeah !! yummy .
this sounds perfect for the dreaded bathing suit season…grrr. good thinkin joy.
Mmm, Joy, I want more friends like this banana bread. It looks so yummy. Hmm, maybe it is weird to talk about your friends as yummy. Oh well, I can get over it. This bread looks fabulous! And I love anything that’s bathing suit friendly but doesn’t taste like it!
I have all of these ingredients in my kitchen… right now! Why am I still sitting at the computer?
Away to the kitchen! Wooooosh!!!!!
Yay to low fat recipes!
Definitely have to make these after those brownie bottom ice cream cupcakes!
I usually come to your blog to escape my personal trainer ways, but given all the diet talk and how so many of you want to rock your upcoming reunions, I had to chime in: the only thing this bread is healthier than is regular banana bread! Which is not by much… Joy, I’d love to see your take on a cottage cheese muffin or personal sized crustless quiche instead! (They’re also great to grab on your way out the door in the morning).
“Low fat” is hardly ever the key to a slim physique… low fat usually means high sugar/carbohydrates (check your yogurt containers for sugar content), which turns into fat! Try to get more protein than carbohydrates into your diet and you will start to see major changes in your physique…. as a baker, I know you can find many delicious ways to do it that doesn’t involve eating canned tuna or chicken breasts all day :p
I love banana bread! But find that when I start the day off with something sweet, I crave sweets for the rest of it (not that this is out of the ordinary or anything). Maybe the addition of the oats would help to cut back on that. I’ll be sure to try this!
incredible looking!!! bring on the bikinis!!!! :) :)
Yum! I’ve been doing Weight Watchers for 6 weeks and have lost a nice chunk of weight. I will definitely be making this recipe … and sharing it with my WW friends!
I love banana bread so much…I was just thinking about it this morning, but then again, it is almost that lovely bathing suit season you spoke of… I’m excited about trying out this recipe!
Low-fat…. oatmeal….. banana….?? How could this get any better? I’m in heaven!
Love the idea of freezing by the slice….
I just finished baking this. I really like that the oats do not get lost in the taste of the banana. It’s a nice combination of the two. Thanks for the recipe!
I’m so glad you guys like the recipe. I try to throw in a less diet smashing recipe from time to time.
You’re totally right Nicole, the only thing this banana bread is healthier than is… regular banana bread. That’s exactly what I was going for.
I don’t use this banana bread recipe as a weight loss tool, as much as I wish I could. I’m afraid I rely on good old fashioned work outs and a balanced diet. That’s the only way it works for me. The banana bread..? It’s just a nice way to treat myself as part of a balanced diet. That’s all. I’ll try to throw together some of those cottage cheese muffins though.. I seriously loooove cottage cheese.