baked

this morning, I was feeling particularly inspired and domestic. so I decided to make some banana bread. heaaaallltthhhyyy banana bread.

recently, i've realized that eating sugar gives me these weird dull headaches. i've been trying to pinpoint what they were coming from for a while and i think I finally got it down. now, obviously, it's more that eating excessive amount of sugar is what does it, but the thing is that most people do eat excessive amount of sugar! unfortunately, most of the food that we eat these days has more sugar than we would like to imagine. 

annyyywaaayyyss, in my efforts to cut back on sugar, I've been trying out some different recipes for baked goods that don't have sugar. here's one of them. no butter, oil, or sugar. its not as bad as it sounds. in fact, it's not even close to bad. its actually so good that its bad.

Healthy Banana Bread

adapted from this recipe

in a large bowl, combine: 

2 cups spelt flower

1/4 cup flax meal 

1 tablespoon baking power

1/2 tablespoon baking soda

1/2 tablespoon salt 

in a separate bowl, combine:

3 large very ripe bananas

1/2 cup milk (any kind will do. i used buttermilk because i had some left over)

1/2 cup100% grade A pure maple syrup (a great sugar substitute)

1 tablespoon vanilla 

if you want to, you can add nuts, chocolate chips, dried fruit, etc. i didn't, but play around!

Pour into a generously greased loaf pan - any smallish pan will work. Bake at 350 for about 50 min. Eat & Enjoy!

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