Muffins tend to be an unhealthy choice, because most recipes fill them with so much sugar and
empty calories. The blueberries are good for you, but the rest of the muffin...not so worth it. Well, there's an easy way to get that little sugar fix, the healthiness of the blueberries, and no guilt!
The brand I use is Betty Crocker Wild Blueberry Muffin mix (click for nutritional info). There are obviously a few different ways to make this into mini muffins. Depending on what kinds of mini muffin pans you get, you can make verrrry low calorie muffins if you wanted, or slightly higher calories. This is the way I do it:
1. Prepare batter according to directions on the box.
2. Split the batter up into 8 standard sized muffin cups (a standard muffin pan has space for 12 muffins).
3. Use what's left to fill in all the muffin cups on a 24 cup mini muffin pan. Bake 'em up and enjoy!
Using that method, each regular muffin is 180 calories, and each mini muffin is 30 calories. If you wanted to make 2 batches of the mini muffins (in a 24 muffin pan), then each muffin would be 45 calories. If you had some other crazy way to do it, the calorie content would change. Either way, it's a tasty little treat for under 50 calories, and a good crave controller!
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Now, for my calorie breakdown:
Calories
180 - Betty Crocker Wild Blueberry Muffin
200 - Chicken;
Marinaded in Wishbone Fat Free Italian Dressing and grilled
70 - Salad;
2 cups of Romaine lettuce: 40 calories
1/4 cup of cucumber: 5 calories
2 tbsp. Wishbone Fat Free Italian dressing: 15 calories
10 sprays of Wishbone Balsamic Salad Spritzer: 10 calories
(The salad was a side to the chicken)
250 - Baked french fries;
1 Russett Potato and 1 White Potato: 220 calories
2 tbsp. of Heinz tomato ketchup: 30 calories
140 - Stewart's Light Cookies 'n Cream Ice Cream;
Only 1/2 cup this time. I'm getting better.
60 - Jell-o Sugar Free Chocolate Pudding;
NO aspartame. :)
300 - Subway 6" sandwich;
Turkey and ham on wheat bread
Total calories consumed: 1200
Exercise
150 - Walking for 30 minutes (3 mph)
Total calories burned: 150
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Net calories: 1050
Evaluation: I'm proud of myself today. Not too shabby :D It was basically a well rounded day, kind of, and I think it's progress from lately. I'm going to try to focus on making my diet more well rounded, but for now, I think this does it as I transition from totally not knowing how to eat to trying to eat healthy.
P.S. THANKS TO MY NOW 6 FOLLOWERS XD Your support means a lot to me, I really appreciate it <3
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3 comments:
U find the recipe so cool. :) good stuff.
I don't like the carbs in that muffin though. Or the fat content. Otherwise, fairly good :) What else do you plan to do with your diet to round it out some more? x
If you make the mini ones the carb and fat content go down significantly, but I sort of look at it like...it's a better evil than like, cake? Haha but I hate cake so I guess it doesn't matter.
I really just want to put more vegetables and fruit in there. I love vegetables, but lately I've had a hard time buying good ones, I live in an area where it's hard.
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