Breakfast muffins and kids

 

 I thought I should post a picture of two of the kids.  This first picture is Jack and another boy in the homeschool group at our monthly meeting.  They were playing a Mexican jumping bean game.

Audrey washing her carrot

  

  
Ayden was checking the garden.   He, like the other two, loves to be outside.  He loves to eat the cherry tomatoes too!

And I will end the post with a recipe. . .   I made these Oatmeal Blueberry Applesauce Muffins from "Annie Eats."  They are a pretty healthy breakfast muffin: whole wheat flour, oats, applesauce, low fat buttermilk, 1 egg, and only 2 TBS of canola oil.  (hmmm, next time I think I will use the coconut oil instead.)  If you want the recipe, click on the link above.  For some reason, I had to cook mine for much longer, just looking at them, they seem to need more oats.  I used a jumbo muffin tin, so I expected to have to cook it longer but not THAT much longer.  If you make these, just cook them for the recommended time and then use a toothpick to check if they are done.  If not, keep adding 3 min at a time.  Ours were pretty gooey but they were cooked and delicious.  The kids gobbled them up!

I used spark people's nutrition calculator,

Nutrition Facts User Entered Recipe   12 Servings Amount Per Serving   Calories 148.1   Total Fat 3.7 g       Saturated Fat 0.6 g       Polyunsaturated Fat 1.2 g       Monounsaturated Fat 2.0 g   Cholesterol 15.8 mg   Sodium 162.4 mg   Potassium 135.7 mg   Total Carbohydrate 35.1 g       Dietary Fiber 3.6 g       Sugars 14.6 g   Protein 3.6 g   Vitamin A 0.7 %   Vitamin B-12 1.0 %   Vitamin B-6 1.9 %   Vitamin C 0.8 %   Vitamin D 0.8 %   Vitamin E 3.5 %   Calcium 5.5 %   Copper 6.7 %   Folate 3.1 %   Iron 5.9 %   Magnesium 8.3 %   Manganese 42.6 %   Niacin 1.2 %   Pantothenic Acid     2.7 %   Phosphorus     11.6 %   Riboflavin 3.4 %   Selenium 0.7 %   Thiamin 8.8 %   Zinc 5.0 %