A Morning Girl

A morning girl...that I am not. I've recently joined a group of awesome women (and maybe 1 or 2 men?) on Facebook on a quest to lose 20 pounds by Christmas. I'm actually down 6 since I started, which is just fabulous! I attribute it to three things 1) the support and motivation of these women (1 of them just RAN A MARATHON!) 2) I live in Chicago and I walk EVERYWHERE and 3) my attempt to become more of a morning person.

Since I'm not a morning person, I rarely eat breakfast, but I've been trying to get better about that. I found a few recipes and, after some tweaking, decided to share these amazing breakfast muffins. Let me know what you think!

Ingredients:
1 cup sour milk (put 1 tbsp. vinegar in a 1 cup measure. fill with milk. I use almond milk)
1/2 cup applesauce
1/4 cup margarine, melted
1 tsp. vanilla extract
1 egg
1/3 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup oat flour (blend 1/2 cup oats until powdery - I suggest NOT skipping this ingredient)
1/2 cup wheat flour (I don't have this. I use regular flour and it's fine.)
1 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. cinnamon
1 cup oats
1/4 cup dried apricots, chopped

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350.
2. Combine sour milk, applesauce, margarine, vanilla, egg and sugar. Mix well
3. Stir together oat flour, flour, baking soda and cinnamon.
4. Add flour mixture to wet mixture. Mix well.
5. Fold in oats and apricots.
6. Put in muffin tins (or reusable cups, see below!) and bake for 20 minutes.

(Please excuse the sideways photograph. It refuses to upload appropriately.)

What do you do for breakfast? I'd love to try YOUR recipes!