favourite new healthy recipe

easy and quick, I'm addicted to bran muffins

1 cup wheat bran
1 1/2 cups whole wheat flour
1/2 cup raisins
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
3/4 cup milk
1/2 cup molasses
2 tablespoons oil
1 egg, beaten
1/4 cup walnuts chopped (if you like walnuts)

• Preheat oven to 400ºF.
  
• Stir together the bran, flour, soda and baking powder. Stir in raisins and set aside.
  
• Blend milk, molasses, oil and egg. Add to dry ingredients and mix just until moistened.
  
• Spoon into 12 greased muffin tins.
  
• Bake for 15 minutes or until muffins pull away from sides of cups.
  

Now sit back and enjoy your 12 delicious muffins!

thursday night dinner

• small handful of walnuts, almonds, and raisins (carefully counted out 2 raisins per nut)
  
• 2 Bernard Callebaut chocolates, left over from Christmas
  
• another handful of walnuts, almonds, and raisins (again, 2 raisins per nut)
  
• a piece of toast with my home-made raspberry jam
  
• a couple of breadsticks, slightly stale, from the gift basket our realtor delivered about 11 months after we moved into the house (which was in August 2007)
  
• a grapefruit
  
• a handful of walnuts and raisins (not so carefully counted)
  
• a scoop each of Island Farms chocolate and vanilla no-sugar ice cream, which I normally don't eat but have in the freezer in case my type-1 diabetic Dad comes for dinner
  
• 3 more Bernard Callebaut chocolates