Start your day with a feel-good muffin! A few easy tweaks mean freshly baked healthy breakfast muffins won’t derail your diet!

I genuinely believe breakfast is important because I don’t know about you but if I don’t have something upon starting my day I tend to graze and end up eating all manner of crap as the morning passes to lunch.  And I feel better when I know I have something fresh, wholesome and full of the good stuff.  Like healthy breakfast muffins.

Working from home definitely has its advantages.  Getting to spend the day with Nooch and Bax, not really having to worry about what my hair looks like (the sights those poor delivery drivers must see) and of course warm from the oven breakfast muffins is about as good as it gets.

Not that these should be exclusively limited to breakfast.  Healthy banana muffins go surprisingly well with an afternoon cuppa too 😉

How to make easy vegan muffins healthy(er):

Just a few simple tweaks are all that is needed:

• Reduce the added sugar content by using bananas for sweetness (they’re also highly nutritious)
• The spottier the banana the better – an overripe banana is rich in antioxidants
• Swap white flour for wholemeal flour
• Use coconut sugar – it’s less refined than white sugar and has the most wonderful caramel flavour (and smell!)
• Use sultanas instead of chocolate chips – full of iron, more fibre, less fat, just as sweet

They’re super easy to make too – mash bananas, mix the wet ingredients together, mix the dry ingredients together then mix the whole lot together!

These soft, pillowy healthy breakfast muffins aren’t just good for body and soul (because muffins) thanks to the simple healthier swaps, but also just how much difference a sprinkle of oats across the top of a muffin can make.  They toast as they’re baked and give a gorgeously wholesome oaty crunch to each gorgeously wholesome muffin.  Goodness baked right in.

Looking for even more healthy vegan breakfast recipes?  Try these:

Vegan Scrambled Eggs

Healthy Breakfast Cookies

Fig and Quinoa Overnight Oats

Chocolate and Strawberry Baked Oats

Split Pea Breakfast Fritters

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