Oat & Apple Breakfast cups

Making your own snacks, reduces waste wrapping and is so much cheaper.

These are apple and oat breakfast muffins. I also made banana and peanut butter ones. These are easy to make, mix it all up in the bowl, then use a 1/4 cup measure to put it in your muffin tins. These are great for brekky on the run. They are based on recipe from www.shelikesfood.com who has some other great ideas. These muffins also freeze well.

4 cups rolled oats 
2 tsp cinnamon
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
2 1/3 cups milk of your choice, so normal, nut, soy, skinny or fat
1/4 cup brown sugar
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup diced apple, granny smith sized apple
1/4 cup seeds of your choice, sunflower, pumpkin

Preheat oven to 180C, spray your 12 hole muffin tins with oil
Mix all ingredients together, it is a very runny mix, don’t panic at this stage! 
Use your 1/4 measuring cup , mix and scoop, pop in the muffin tin. Repeat until all mix gone.
Bake for approx 20-30 mins, until cooked through
They are moist, but as they cool they do firm up.

I freeze mine in existing plastic containers that I still have with a sheet of sandwich paper on the top to minimise air, I have also frozen in glass jars, you just need to leave expansion room.

As my plastic containers wear out, I am replacing with alternatives from the local charity shop, so tins, big glass jars. I am a child of the Tupperware era, so have quite a few rattling around in my cupboards. They are being transitioned out of the kitchen and used for non food items. Very handy in the garden shed, the tool shed. I don’t see any point in just ditching them, as they are useful. Reuse, repurpose and only buy new if I have no alternative.