"Healthy" Egg-free Banana Bread

It's been SO long I know, I make all these promises to post and then I do what I do best: procrastinate.  So gimme a break, it's the name of the blog isn't it? Keep your expectations low and you'll never be disappointed, am I right? Haha.

So since January I have lost just about 15 pounds and my goal before May 25th (my 24th birthday) is to lose about 15 more. I know that's about 7 weeks away and is probably pretty achievable, but with school and work and trying to make time for friends and family I tend to run out of time on going to work out.  Sure I could wake up earlier and go running, but lets not get crazy here...

And sugar cravings are the worse struggle I have so I wanted to have a little treat that was as healthy as I could get without it losing the flavor. I had nice ripe bananas already so I thought banana bread sounds pretty healthy right? Wrong! So many of them have such an overwhelming amount of sugar to them! So I did some searching around and I found a recipe that sounded pretty easy and it's egg-free. Now I don't have any issues with eggs in baking, but I just don't have any right now and I barely use them so buying a carton for just one egg in a banana loaf seemed pretty senseless.

I found this recipe at Tasty Kitchen (which is linked to the Pioneer Woman's website; I love her! Go buy her cook book it's fantastic!)

Ingredients

• 2 whole Ripe Bananas
• ½ cups Low Fat Cottage Cheese
• ½ cups Whole Wheat Flour
• ½ cups All-purpose Flour
• ¼ cups Brown Sugar
• ¼ cups White Sugar
• ½ teaspoons Vanilla Extract
• 1 teaspoon Baking Powder
• ¼ cups Canola Oil

 Preperation

Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
In a large bowl, mash peeled bananas. Add cottage cheese and continue mashing.
Add remaining ingredients and mix together until well combined.
Pour batter into a greased loaf pan, spreading evenly.
Bake for 32-35 minutes. Let cool before removing from the pan and serving.

My mashed up banana and cottage cheese mixture.

Reminder: don't be like me, always remember to grease your pan first..makes things a lot easier!

Yeah baby! It's pretty good, different than the usual banana bread but I'd make it again for sure!