10 Pound Muffins

These are our all-purpose travel muffins. I make them for every trip and they serve as an entire meal. Add chocolate chips and any man will eat them. These are not your friendly light neighborhood bakery muffins. These suckers really weigh about ten pounds apiece!

Mix together in food processor:
1 1/2 c. flour
3/4 c. flax, slightly ground
3/4 c. quick oats
1 c. brown sugar
2 t. soda
1 t. b. powder
1 t. salt
2 t. cinnamon

Then add:
3/4 c. milk
2 T. oil
2 c. carrots, shredded
2 c. apples, chopped
1/2 c. raisins, hydrated
1 c. nuts, chopped
1 t. vanilla
1 egg (optional)
chocolate chips (as required for male consumption)
Anything else in your kitchen cabinet

Bake 375 for 15 to 20 minutes.

Of course I never actually follow the recipe. The egg is optional because if you really use 3/4 c. freshly ground flax seed you don't need an egg. If you don't have the flax seed, use some other hearty chewy grain or seed and add an egg. Or just go ahead and add the egg and chalk it up to protein. In the summer I cut out/back the sugar and just grind up some stevia from my garden with the cuisinart. Again, with enough chocolate chips, no one will notice. Although the stevia does turn them a pretty nasty color. So does spinach, incidentally. Protein powder doesn't change the taste much. We like the raisin/chocolate chip combo but I can see that wouldn't cut it for everyone. The apple skins turn green so be prepared for that, too. Really, these are very ugly muffins, but they are delish and two dozens of these suckers will take you all the way across the US.