Learn how to make moist and fluffy banana muffins from scratch! Only 136 calories and made with no refined flour or sugar. Packed with oats, chocolate chips, and naturally sweet fruit flavor—definitely one of my all-time favorite muffins recipes!

 

Easy Healthy Moist Greek Yogurt Banana Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Muffins

 
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Throughout my childhood, my mom mainly baked two things from scratch: chocolate chip cookies and banana muffins. She followed the recipe on the back of the bright yellow bag of chocolate chips for the cookies, but for the muffins, she pulled out a faded card from her recipe binder with my dad’s handwriting scrawled across it in black ink.
 

Easy Healthy Clean Eating Whole Wheat Banana Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Muffins

 
He had created that recipe during graduate school, and it called for fairly normal ingredients, like flour, oil, sugar, eggs, and a couple of extremely ripe bananas. With such simple and straightforward instructions, Mom mixed up a batch a few times when we ended up with extra fruit ripening on the counter.

Although I only ate lemon poppy seed muffins back then, I still bravely tried one the first time she baked those banana muffins. I hated “bits” in my food (like onions in spaghetti sauce or even blueberries in pancakes!), but Mom reassured me that the muffins contained no bits… Only thoroughly mashed, and therefore completely undetectable, bananas.
 

Easy Healthy Gluten Free Sugar Free Banana Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Muffins

 
After I fell in love with my first bite, Mom taught me how to break them open while still hot and fresh from the oven, then place a little pat of butter on each half and watch as it melted into the warm muffins. I also learned that they tasted just as delicious, if not even better, the following day after spending the night sealed inside of an airtight container in the fridge, which let the flavors meld and intensify, while also giving the muffins an even softer and sweeter film across their tops, almost as if you had brushed a little honey on their domes.

After a trip back home for the holidays and a search through Mom’s recipe binder to find Grandma’s fruitcake recipe, I came across Dad’s banana muffins recipe too. But because Dad’s original recipe didn’t exactly fall in the “healthy” category…
 

Easy Healthy Weight Watchers Low Fat Banana Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Muffins

 
I decided to create my own healthier version back at my house, which resulted in these Healthy Banana Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Muffins! They’re just as moist and fluffy as the ones from my childhood, and just as easy to make too, but these contain no refined flour or sugar. Even better, they’re just 136 calories!
 

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