Banana bread. Warm. Delicious. Banana Bread. It is quite possibly one of my favourite treats of all time. Add in some chocolate chips, and I’m in heaven.
This pregnancy has me baking a lot. I think for one I find it fun, and therapeutic. But, it also means that I always have delicious treats on hand. Having lots of delicious, healthy treats available at my disposal has been key in this pregnancy. If you think hangry is bad, try hangnant. It’s the term I just made up, like right now, for being hangry and pregnant. Yea- Hangnant. It’s going to become a thing.
Being hangnant is the most upset version of hangry you can imagine. And it’s not just limited to angry. No, no my friends. It could be sad, irritated – it could result in bursting into tears. You never know how hangnant is going to play out.
Let me share my hangnant story with you
So i’m at my mom’s house, toward the end of my first trimester. I am hungry, bordering hangry, but all the food around me is really turning me off. My mom ordered Chinese food, and it was making me want to throw up. But I was so hungry – bordering hangry. I think to myself, “It’s cool, I’ll just go to the fridge and see what I can scrounge up.”
So I walk over to the fridge and for almost 10 entire minutes I’m on the hunt for something delicious that doesn’t make me want to throw up. Except I can’t find anything. Everything is making me want to vomit, and nothing is appealing. Everything is either a condiment or an ingredient that needs to be made into food. I am not ashamed to admit that after that realization, I burst into tears.
Now, in the moment I was ashamed, don’t get me wrong! I wiped my tears away and pretended I wasn’t hungry, and ran downstairs. But much later I realized it was far worse than hangry my friends. I, was hangnant.
A note on hangnancy
Now, if we’re going to make hangnant a thing, it’s important to define two terms:
Hangnancy, is the constant state of being hangnant. Used in a sentence, “Ugh, i’m experiencing some terrible hangnancy right now!”
Hangnant, which is defined by me as the state of being hangry and pregnant, can be used in a sentence like this, “Man, I’m so friggin’ hangnant right now!”
Hangnancy is to hangnant what pregnancy is to pregnant. But maybe you gathered that already.
A little known fact is that this is not my first blog. I created my very first blog out of sheer boredom in university and called it, Melipedia. Essentially it was me, making up new things and defining them. Was it lame? Absolutely. But was it funny. Hell yes! I also think the only people who will appreciate this are my best friend Urszula, and Coach Joe.
So about these banana bites…
These banana bites are delicious, and they aren’t super sweet either. They are obviously vegan, and gluten free and could be made nut free by substituting another flour for the almond flour! I made these in my Epicure baking tray, but you could make them regular sized muffins, or mini muffins! I like the mini’s because it makes me feel like i’m eating more.
| Prep Time | 10 minutes |
| Cook Time | 25-30 minutes |
| Servings |
mini muffins
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- 3 medium banana's mashed
- 1/4 cup coconut oil melted (or liquid form)
- 3/4 cup almond milk
- 1 tbsp apple cider vinegar
- 1 chia egg See notes for details
- 1/2 cup coconut sugar
- 3 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp himalayan salt (or sea salt
- 1 tsp cinnamon or more to taste
- 1 1/4 cup almond meal (sub other gluten free flour if nut free)
- 1 1/4 cup gluten free flour blend see notes for my gluten free flour blend
- 1 1/4 cup gluten free rolled oats
- 1/2 cup dark chocolate chips
Ingredients
Wet Ingredients
Dry Ingredients:
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- Preheat the oven the 350 degrees F
- Add all the dry ingredients in a bowl and mix thoroughly, and all the wet ingredients in a separate bowl. Whisk them together well, folding in the chocolate chips.
- Lightly grease your muffin pan with some coconut oil, and spoon your batter in evenly.
- Let bake for 20-30 minutes, until golden brown on the top. They are done when you can stick a toothpick in the middle, and it comes out clean.
- Let cool and serve! They are delicious with almond butter!
Chia egg: Mix 1 tbsp of ground chia seeds with 1/4 cup of warm water. Let it sit for approximately 10 minutes before adding it to the wet ingredients
Gluten free flour blend: 1/2 cup brown rice flour, 1/2 cup chickpea flour and 1/4 cup arrowroot starch is the blend I use.
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