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Wheat Free Dairy Free Oat Flour Banana Muffins

These Oat Flour Banana Muffins are one of our favorite breakfasts are both wheat and dairy free. Bonus - they freeze great. Need to add these to your menu!

This is one of the first recipes I put up on the blog and I still love how easy and healthy they are. They also happen to be the third most popular recipe! (Coming in after this easy Alfredo Sauce and fabulous Sweet Potato Breakfast Casserole.)

These Oat Flour Banana Muffins (that are dairy and wheat free) make the perfect breakfast, snack, and freezer food. That means you can make a double or triple batch and enjoy the wonderful smells wafting through your kitchen one day and stock your freezer for the next few weeks at the same time.

Guess what else? There’s no added sugar. That’s right, not even honey, maple syrup, or stevia. Using ripe bananas adds the perfect sweetness. That makes me happy as I try to keep breakfasts with sugar to special occasions.

All that to say, if your family is used to sweet muffins, you might want to use the chocolate chips or add a little honey (or even sugar) the first time you make them and each time you make them use less. We all eat and enjoy them just as they are though.

Mini muffins work best in our house. They are the perfect size for a 4 year old and a 20 month old. Less waste if they decide they aren’t hungry anymore after one bite, if you know what I mean. Of course you can make this recipe into bread or regular muffins as well.

Watch the cooking time closely the first time you make these – we all fill our muffins tins to different levels, oven temperatures vary, and pans cook differently.

Depending on how full you fill your pans this recipe will make 36-48 mini muffins. Last time I made it we got 12 mini muffins and 11 regular sized ones out of a batch.

I hope you enjoy these wheat free dairy free oat flour banana muffins as much as we do knowing you’ll be feeding your family a healthy, nutritious, and portable breakfast.

5.0 from 2 reviews

Wheat Free Dairy Free Banana Muffins

Recipe type: Bread

Ingredients

5-6 ripe bananas (to equal 2 cups smashed)
½ cup melted coconut oil
2 eggs
1 T. vanilla extract
3 cups oat flour
2 t. cinnamon
2 t. baking powder
1 t. baking soda
½ t. salt
Optional - nuts or chocolate chips

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
In a large mixing bowl smash the bananas with a fork or pastry cutter. Add in the coconut oil, eggs and vanilla. Mix well.
In a separate bowl combine oat flour, cinnamon, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Whisk together.
Add the dry ingredients to the wet and stir until combine.
Place in greased muffins tins or bread pans.
Bake for 10-12 minutes for mini muffins.
Cool on wire rack.
Enjoy.

Notes

Add a little honey (or sugar) if your family likes sweeter muffins!

These Oat Flour Banana Muffins are one of our favorite breakfasts are both wheat and dairy free. Bonus - they freeze great. Need to add these to your menu!

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Cinnamon Kettle Corn

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Cinnamon Kettle Corn | Oh my goodness. This stuff is amazing - you'll never what the regular stuff again.

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Popcorn is a popular snack in our house. It’s easy and pretty healthy – especially if you use the Whirley-Pop we love so much. Most of the time it’s of the butter and salt variety popped on the stove. Sometimes I’m in the mood for a salty and sweet snack though and then kettle corn is the answer.

We recently did some experimenting and found adding cinnamon to the mix brings it over the top. Cinnamon Kettle Corn is the perfect movie night food or afternoon snack.

In my opinion, cooking is all about making things fit the tastes of your family. If you are trying to cut back on sugar, eliminate a tablespoon or two. Love salt? Add some more. My husband loved the popcorn with 3/4 teaspoon of cinnamon. Me, I like it with 1. But anyway you make it, it’s some good (and addicting) stuff!

Once, I attempted to make this healthier by using sucanat. Umm, let’s just say everything had to be tossed. I think the higher moisture content caused it to burn. I use the fair trade cane sugar with no problems though.

You can find your popcorn kernels anyplace from Wal-Mart and sometimes Aldi to online at Amazon and Vitacost (<— If you sign up using my referral link, you’ll receive $10 off your first order if it’s $30 or more.)

Cinnamon Kettle Corn | Oh my goodness. This stuff is amazing - you'll never what the regular stuff again.

5.0 from 2 reviews

Cinnamon Kettle Corn

Ingredients

2 tablespoons coconut oil
½ cup popcorn kernels
4 tablespoons sugar
¾-1 teaspoon cinnamon
⅛-1/4 teaspoon salt

Instructions

Put oil and 3 popcorn kernels in your popper. Turn heat to medium (or a smidge over).
Combing sugar and cinnamon.
Once all 3 kernels pop, add remaining popcorn and the sugar and cinnamon mixture. Give the pan a stir/shake. Then take a silicone scraper and stir and scrape the bottom and sides of the pan quickly. (It helps break up and dissolve the sugar.)
Close lid and use the handle to stir if you are using a Whirley-Pop or shake the pot every couple seconds.
When finished popping, pour into a big bowl and sprinkle with salt.
Enjoy!

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Ways to Pay off Mortgage Early

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Pay off mortgage early!!! Financial goals can be scary and exciting! This year we are focusing on paying off our house - here's how we are doing it!

Pay off mortgage early. That’s quite the statement. Financial goals they can seem daunting or exciting. Debilitating or exhilarating. Sometimes, a combination of everything.

This year we are challenging ourselves to try and meet a pretty big financial goal. We pay our mortgage (and taxes and insurance) each month but we are going to put a much larger chunk for the next 18 months towards paying extra on our principal!

Pay Off Mortgage Early

Is paying off your mortgage early important to you?

Let’s get down to what this is going to mean in our life.

How Budgeting Looks in Our Home:

My husband works in Christian radio and I work 24 hours a week at our church.

We budget off of my husband’s salary and work hard to make it possible. Even to make it possible, we have to eliminate certain categories and have others less than we’d like, but we want to know that we could live off of that income if we had to.

The money I earn we budget separately. Here is where the “extras” come out of. Things like:

Vacations
Extras for clothing (to supplement the very little that comes out of our regular budget)
Putting extra towards saving goals – new cars, storm shelter etc
Putting extra to pay of mortgage early
Projects we want to tackle around the house
The list goes on. We sit down and look and see what’s going to be happening each month and decide what we are going to do with the money.

Our Financial Goal

This year, we are going to be doing something a bit differently. We are going to be budgeting (and living) off of my husband’s income as usual.

Where the big change comes in, for the next 18 months we are planning on every penny I bring in (after giving) going towards our plan to pay off mortgage early.

It will be tight. We’ll have lots of decisions to make and I’m sure it won’t be easy. I’m guessing that there will be times when we wish we could just use a hundred dollars. We’ll have to say no to lots of things we want to do.

At the same time it’s exciting.

It’s exciting to set a big goal and see it get chipped away at.

Each thousand dollars that comes off of the total will be exhilarating.

Seeing the difference short term sacrifices are making will be exciting.

Not only is it exciting (and scary) I think my husband and I will see plenty of other benefits over the next months besides the obvious perk of our mortgage disappearing.

Benefits of Tackling a Financial Goal as a Couple:

Our creativity and trust will be stretched.
Extra motivation to try and increase our side income projects.
We’ll have to be resourceful to come up with money for things we want or need that come up during the year.
We will learn to be content with what we have.
As we tackle this big project together, hopefully our communication and relationship will be strengthened.

I’m looking forward to 18 months from now and hopefully having our home paid off and being able to look back over that year and half and see how the sacrifices and determination paid off!

What financial goals have you tackled? Did you see benefits from it? Pay off your mortgage early – is that a phrase you’ve thought of before?

Did you set any big financial goals this year?

Top Recipes of 2014

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These are the most viewed recipes of 2014 on From this Kitchen Table!!! These need to go onto the menu plan. These are some great ones.

I have a post today that will make your stomach, menu plan, and Pinterest boards (follow mine here) happy! These are the most viewed recipes from 2014, and there are some good ones including my favorite breakfast dish, a go to 20 minute meal (can’t go wrong with butter, cheese, and cream), my easy way of making yogurt, and the broccoli pasta we are actually having for dinner tonight!

Have you made any of these? If you blog, what were your most viewed recipes?