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.
Ruby
Joy, I just made this on Monday night…I have to say, it’s Thee tastiest low-fat ANYTHING I’ve ever made. Thanks for your wonderfulness! Have a fab day!
Melissa
I was surfing the net for a healthy oatmeal banana bread and found this one. I love the recipe! I changed a couple of things to make it a little healthier: substituted applesauce for the oil, and honey for the sugar. I also used 1 tsp cinnamon (I love cinnamon) instead of 1/2 tsp, and added about a 1/2 cup of chopped pecans. I devoured a piece as soon as I took it out of the oven. YUM!!
Hope
I loved this recipe! my family devoured it in a day! I’m going to make it again tonight!!
Hannah
Oh and I was wondering if I could post this recipe on my blog, which is posted. Let me know, thanks!
Hannah
I made this earlier today and it is the first low fat banana bread that I have enjoyed! I heated it up and put some honey and banana slices on top for a little more banana-ness.
Tracey
I love this recipe. The thick texture is great. I have made it on multiple occasions (including tonight!) and it always tastes great.
Kathleen
Wonderful recipe and healthy! Thank you! I used 4 medium bananas and used a mixture of white and whole wheat flour.
Jen
YUM…………I added some chocolate chips. It is my fave low-fat banana bread recipe by far!
Lindsay
Hi! I just baked this. Love it! Will post it on my blog : ) Thanks for sharing the recipe!!!
theaxx
mine are in the oven!! One is plain and the other has blueberries baking inside…
thea.
xx
Allie Z
Yum! I made this recipe last night for a breakfast meeting today. I served it with chopped cantelope. What a delight!
Unfortunately, I think I ate 4 slices (two on the way in, two in the meeting!). What was I thinking? Thank goodness it’s “healthy” lol
Allie