ccrawford
April 10th, 2003, 01:53 PM
These muffins are great for those with high cholesterol because they tend to pick up low LDL and drag it out of your body. They are not hard to make (I did it easily) and they also are good as a general diet food - if you eat one 20 minutes berfore your meal, they tend to expand and you won't be as hungry.The ingredients are as follows: 1/2 cup brown sugar, 1 1/2 cups oat bran cereal, 1 1/2 cups whole wheat flour, 1 1/2 tsp baking powder, 1 1/2 tsp baking soda, 1/2 tsp salt, 2 eggs (or substitute eggs or 4 egg whites), 1 cup applesauce-chilled, 4 tbsp vegetable oil. Optional ingredients: one or two ripe bananas for extra moisture, chopped nuts (walnuts are my choice), other chopped fruit or raisons. Preheat oven to 400, use muffin cups in your muffin tin or grease the tin, blend dry ingredients first and then add the rest, blend well, spoon ingredients into cups and let sit 10 minutes, bake about 15 minutes or until top starts to turn brown. Makes about 12 muffins. refridgerate or freeze those muffins that you don't plan to eat within three days. Three muffins a day are the reccommendation of the author in regards to optimal cholesterol reduction, but you might want to start out with less than that. They are delicious, but can cause some methane for some people.
Hope you enjoy (the muffins, not the methane) Chris
Hope you enjoy (the muffins, not the methane) Chris