Best Oatmeal and Chocolate Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Muffins EVER by ME

Whole Wheat Oatmeal Muffins:
2 c. Whole-grain Wheat flour
1 1/2 c. Whole-grain oatmeal
2/3 c. sugar
1 c. vegetable oil
2 c. milk
2 eggs
2 tsp. salt
6 tsp. baking powder
2 tsp. nutmeg
1 1/2 tsp. cinnamon
3/4 c. applesauce

Mix together dry ingredients (flour, oats, baking poweder, salt, nutmeg, cinnamon). Beat together eggs with milk. Add to dry ingredients. Add vegetable oil and applesauce. Fill muffin tins. Yields about 24 muffins. Bake @ 400 degrees for about 20 minutes.

I changed the Betty Crocker Oatmeal muffin recipe around to make them more moist and healthier than the regular one. I made them last night and, according to everyone who has tried them, they are AMAZING.

Chocolate Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Muffins:
2 c. whole-grain wheat flour
1 1/2 c. oatmeal
1 1/2 c. sugar
4 tbsp. cocoa powder
2 1/2 c. chocolate chips (semi-sweet)
1 c. vegetable oil
1 tsp. salt
4 tsp. baking powder
2 eggs
2 c. milk

Mix together dry ingredients (flour, oatmeal, sugar, cocoa powder, salt, baking powder). Beat eggs together; add milk and vegetable oil. Alternate mixing dry ingredients in with egg mixture. Beat until lumpy batter forms. Add 1 3/4 c. chocolate chips. Put into muffin tins. Sprinkle rest of chocolate chips on top of muffins. Bake at 375 degrees for about 20 minutes. Makes approx. 24 muffins.

These muffins have gotten the best reviews so far by my guinea pigs. (Thank you Jill, Neil, family, and office of SBS)

I Got In A Fight With A Hershey's Chocolate Bar and I Lost.

I lasted yesterday and (so far) today with out my vanilla Diet Coke! I DO have will-power! :) :(


But... I just ate a miniature size Hershey's Special Dark Chocolate bar. Ok, maybe two. Ok, maybe three.

My charlatan consuetudes are going to keep me out of heaven.


I need to atone for my deviltry. Or at least stop preaching the frightening (to me) nutritional facts at every family meal.


But the chocolate is SO GOOD.


Help!!??!!


Healthy or Hershey's? Healthy or Hershey's? Healthy or Hershey's?


ACK. I just Googled what I ate and it has PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED OILS IN IT (trans fat, worst kind). AND high-fructose corn syrup, which is the most refined sugar product available. And the worst kind of sugar one can consume. I'm well on my way to having CAD.


This is what happens when it is slow at work and I have unlimited access to Google anything I want. Geez. I just need to get over it and over myself. And I need more friends in Bakersfield (most are out of town) to occupy my time with so I don't obsess over what oils and sugars and fats I am eating and what they are doing to my digestive system. Thank goodness Tawnie is coming into town today!