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.
Penny
Thank-you for passing this along! After a weekend of crispy creme donuts and lofthouse cookies, I need to get my tastebuds and tummy back in line!
Lovely
Made this the other day and it turned our apartment into banana heaven. Made some lemon curd with the 2 leftover egg yolks – delicious combination. Thanks
Stacey
Just made this and the kids and I loved it! Thanks!
stephchows
I love that you made this low fat! Banana bread can be so moist on it’s own without a stick of butter :)
Nickki
I made this banana bread and It’s so good! All my good intentions have gone right out the window though, because I intend to slather my toasted slice with cream cheese…..;)
Sarah McGalliard
oven* not over
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Sarah McGalliard
so i made this early this morning and could barely contain myself as the aromas filled my apartment!!! and i must say the taste of the FRESH out of the over……..YUM. there are no other ways to describe it!
Mixing Bowl Mama
This looks delicious. I love oatmeal and bananas together..yummy!
lauren
your entries crack me up! i will be making this :)
joythebaker
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.
The Furie Queene
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!
unconfidentialcook
Love the idea of freezing by the slice….
howtoeatacupcake
Low-fat…. oatmeal….. banana….?? How could this get any better? I’m in heaven!
jessica
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!