mmm banana bread

I don't know whether I actually felt better today or I just ignored the fact that I wasn't feeling great. Doesn't matter, as I got done what I needed to get done: shopping is pretty much complete for Thanksgiving. Just have to pick up a few things at Sam's Club tomorrow, and stop at Target to return those pants, and then I can get cooking.

One things that wasn't so much scheduled today as just happened was making banana bread. I encouraged (rather forcefully) DS1 to do some more of his Sacrament of Penance homework, and he put in over an hour at it -- and DS2 and DD were kicking around waiting to watch the DVD of "Olive the Other Reindeer" I indulgently bought for them at Fry's today. DS2 is not so good at patience, sometimes, being only 3, and so I said, "Hey, help me make banana bread." This was a hybrid of my mom's old high-carb recipe and my own MILC techniques, and it came out awesome:

Banana Bread
(12 servings)

2 large over-ripe bananas, mashed
1 egg
1/2 C butter melted
1/2 C Splenda pourable
1/2 C xylitol
1/2 C almond flour
1 C Designer Whey
2 T vital wheat gluten
2 T oat flour
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt

Combine the wet ingredients and sweeteners.
Sift all the dry ingredients together, then mix into the wet ingredients.
Pour into well-greased loaf pan.
Bake in a 325 degree preheated oven about 40 minutes.

The texture of this bread was exactly like my mom's. Of course it had a lot more banana in it than I usually use. I should run the numbers.

Update: here's the nutrition information, best I can figure out, using 9.6 calories and 4 grams of Sugar Alcohols (no carbs) per teaspoon of xylitol, 24 teaspoons to the half-cup:
Per Serving: 161 calories, 11 g fat, 8 g carbs, 1 g fiber, 6 g protein, 5 g sugar alcohols


Anyway I was too exhausted to do much for dinner, just made burgers for the kids and omelettes for DH & me; then we had the banana bread for dessert. Lots and lots of banana bread, hee! Half the loaf is gone, but that's OK.

The fridge is stuffed with good things to eat for the rest of the week. I have to get my head on straight with what I'm cooking when, tomorrow. The in-laws come in mid-afternoon, and dinner will be take-out, but I don't want to be completely flattened when they get here.

I do hope I can get to bed at a decent hour tonight. Last night things didn't work out that way, as I stayed up until the laundry came out of the dryer so the kids would have clothes for school. I ended up sleeping until 8:30 so it wasn't as bad as all that, but I would like to help DH in the morning. Tonight I don't have any such constraints so I will aim for a much more reasonable bed time.

I always say that, don't I?