I was reading up on bananas the other day, like you do when you are busy and something pops up on your computer!! I discovered the many benefits from eating them regularly, the potassium they contain is good for heart health, for lowering blood pressure and the tryptophan they contain helps your body produce serotonin which is really good for sleep regulation ... all of which are things that I need. They are also rich in fibre, vitamins B6 and C, manganese and also traces of copper.
It all sounds very good, however, can eating more than six bananas in a day really kill you? Not according to THIS report from the BBC a few years ago. Now who even thought they could in the first place!! 😄
Anyway I will be making an effort to eat more bananas, perhaps one a day along with the occasional Satsuma ... I don't like fruit that much. 🍌🟠
Perhaps that is why one of my favourite ways to consume bananas is in banana and walnut muffins. 😀
This batch may have been in the oven for two minutes too long, but the main reason they are so brown is that when I went to measure out the sugar I had no white sugar left at all so I decided to use my Demerara sugar.
And there wasn't enough of that, so I emptied out all my little rescued freebies from cafes over the last few months, and believe it or not the final weight came to exactly the amount that I needed. Fate is telling me that the best way to eat bananas is in cake form. 😁
They had a delicious crunch to them, so I'll be doing this again for sure.
Alan was going to Booths for some bread for himself earlier and he asked me if there was anything I needed. Yes, eggs I said. He came back with my usual choice and they had increased in price from £4.50 last week to £5 this week.
Now that is a bit of a steep rise in just seven days!!
He said that there was a sign on the shelf edge that said they worked out at 42p per egg. Which, if you put things into perspective, means that two eggs on toast still works out at a very reasonable £1 for a good breakfast or lunch.
Or of course for two eggs added to Banana and Walnut muffins.
Sue xx
I only like bananas before the skin goes brown but after it's been green - a short window of perfection! and then only in a sandwich - hence I don't buy them often.
ReplyDeleteWho on earth would eat 6 a day anyway!
I have a narrow window of 'banana perfection' too, so perhaps if I keep buying them by the bunch it will be me eating 6 in a day. ;-)
DeleteOh I can NEVER, EVER eat a banana in a sandwich, too many childhood horror meals of being made to. I didn't mind Dad's lazy days when he would give us a slice of bread and butter, and a banana. One to hold in each hand and take alternative bites out of he said. But I would eat all the banana and then enjoy the bread afterwards. :-)
I like bananas but tend to eat them sliced into my porridge. I too have a narrow window of perfection but towards the riper end of the scale. Banana loaf and muffins are so easy to make-think I need to make some soon! Catriona
ReplyDeleteYes, if the are a little bit past my perfect zone, I slice them up and add them to my porridge. It makes it very filling doesn't it. 😀
DeleteI too prefer my bananas towards the riper end of the scale. I usually limit myself to about 3 a week as they are also a bit high on the glycemic scale for me. I like to have them on hand to take to the office for the three mornings I go in - it makes for an easy snack after about 3 hours of work with a cup of tea and then that holds me to my main meal which is usually between 3:30 and 5pm - that way I can stick to two meals a day with a snack (trying to lose weight). But do have to say that banana bread - or muffins - are always very tasty.
ReplyDeleteMy favourite eggs have stayed at $5.49 a dozen (Canadian) for extra large free run eggs - although I keep expecting them to go up,. I stopped by the supermarket on the way home from the office for a few odds and ends and I noticed that my favourite tea bags have gone up 50 cents a box!! One relatively small bag of groceries and it was still $45.00!!
The ones in that top photo are about my 'zone of perfection' any little black dots and they go into my porridge, bigger areas of blackness and they are definitely ready to be muffins. 😄
DeleteRises used to be a sneaky odd penny or dime didn't they, now they jump up in large increments.
I, too, only like bananas before then get too ripe and I always request green bananas when I order my groceries. Once they get ripe, I will make banana muffins, etc.
ReplyDeleteOur egg prices over here have gone sky high. The last dozen I bought cost $9.99! And they weren't even organic (or even free range, just cage free which is a state requirement). Which comes out to $0.83 per egg. Our new president ran on a campaign promise of lowering grocery prices on "Day 1" of his administration, but, so far, that has not happened! Quite the opposite, in fact!
Just another of Trumps empty promises. He actually snapped at a reporter for daring to mention your rising egg prices again didn't he. ☹️
DeleteI lived in the tropics as a kid and the bananas there taste different than those in stores, so I don't eat them often anymore. They are good for you though.
ReplyDeleteOh I bet they were spectacular straight from the place they grow. It's like homegrown vegetables, they are so much taster when harvested and eaten in days and not picked too early, chilled and then shipped around the world. 😀
DeleteI usually end up purchasing coffee pods every second week (I might cut that down now) and when I went to pick up the ones that cost $14.97 for 48, the last time I was shopping they had risen to $17.97. Big jump in just two weeks. Prices just keep right on rising, except for bananas here. They have been the same price for the last 3 years.
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
That sounds good, perhaps there is a price cap on the bananas you get! Tinned salmon in Aldi was at £2.49 for the last few years, I was regularly stocking up expecting a price rise. It came a couple of weeks ago, now the sane tin is £2.79. Then I noticed the dates on the tins. All the older ones had the same date, regardless of when I bought them. Obviously they had all been imported in vast quantities and now we are on the newer batch of imports at a higher price.
DeleteEggs are so expensive, even for bog-standard ones nowadays.
ReplyDeleteI really ought to eat more bananas. I'll put them on the next shopping list! xx
I do understand the egg price hike, it still makes me wince though. I remember pricing our eggs out, at cost of production they were 7p each. So we could happily sell a half dozen for £1. Oh to have chickens again. 🐔😀
DeleteFor years the small st Lucia bananas at MandS were the nearest is taste to the ones we had in Indonesia. We have bananas in custard for lunch... several days in a row in order to get them all eaten at the right stage of ripeness!
ReplyDeleteI used to love bananas in custard, what a tasty way to get your nutrients in. 😀
DeleteI'm afraid I view bananas as the food of the devil so I will have to miss out on all the goodies they have : - ) I buy Sainsbury's organic eggs which, last time I bought them, were £4.69 for a dozen.
ReplyDeleteQuite a lot of people feel just like you do, sometimes I go right off them, but at the moment I am definitely in a banana mood.
DeleteAll looks yum. I too collect sugars when i'm out and use them in cooking.
ReplyDeleteThey come in handy don't they, and it would be so wasteful not to. 😀
DeleteWow...who knew bananas contained so much goodness? I certainly didn't. I eat on average 2 a week so I'm going to up my intake too. I knew they had lots of potassium but if they help me to sleep better, that will be wonderful :) Banana muffins are definitely the way to go! Hmmm....coincidentally...I bought a packet of shelled walnuts today. Guess what I'm going to do with some of them ;) Thank you for the tip !
ReplyDeleteAngie x
I forgot to add that I'm shocked at the price of your eggs Sue. I bought 6 free range Sainsbury's eggs for £1.69 and thought that a bit steep :/
DeleteEggs are a bit cheaper in Sainsbury's here too, when it's open, but I prefer to buy organic and local eggs, so I'm happy to pay a little bit more. 🙂
DeleteI agree with your commenter e, the bananas I've eaten straight from the tree - especially there ones you can only get in a specific part of Kerala, have spoilt supermarket bananas for me! I do get through about three a week and as I get older I prefer them greener. I was impressed that they're 12p each in Aldi at the moment, no excuse for those parents who claim that fresh fruit is expensive and send their kids to school with a packet of crisps instead! xxx
ReplyDeleteOurs are currently 16p each in Aldi, so you have a bargain. I always choose the largest bananas and potatoes in Aldi, and the smallest in Sainsbury's where they are sold by weight. 😄
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