{"id":15513,"date":"2018-01-25T10:58:29","date_gmt":"2018-01-25T08:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/responsive.jozikids.co.za\/zaparents\/?p=15513"},"modified":"2022-08-11T18:36:47","modified_gmt":"2022-08-11T16:36:47","slug":"lunchbox-ideas-banana-muffins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/lifestyle\/food-lunchbox-ideas\/lunchbox-ideas-banana-muffins\/","title":{"rendered":"Lunchbox ideas: Banana muffins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These muffins are a firm favorite with my children.\u00a0 They&#8217;re super easy to make and are quite filling too. Muffins are great as snacks in between meals or if you&#8217;re pressed for time between school and extra activities, or even for on-the-run breakfasts.<\/p>\n<h2>Ingredients<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>3 large\u00a0bananas<\/li>\n<li><sup>1<\/sup>\u2044<sub>2 <\/sub>cup\u00a0white sugar<\/li>\n<li>1 egg<\/li>\n<li>1 teaspoon\u00a0baking soda<\/li>\n<li>1 teaspoon\u00a0baking powder<\/li>\n<li>1\u00a0<sup>1<\/sup>\u2044<sub>2<\/sub>cups\u00a0all-purpose flour<\/li>\n<li><sup>1<\/sup>\u2044<sub>3<\/sub>cup melted\u00a0butter<\/li>\n<li><sup>1<\/sup>\u2044<sub>2<\/sub>teaspoon\u00a0salt (optional)<\/li>\n<li>nuts (optional)<\/li>\n<li>chocolate chips(optional)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/banana-muffins-lunchbox-ideas.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-15524 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/banana-muffins-lunchbox-ideas-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"banana muffins\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/banana-muffins-lunchbox-ideas-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/banana-muffins-lunchbox-ideas-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/banana-muffins-lunchbox-ideas-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/banana-muffins-lunchbox-ideas-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/banana-muffins-lunchbox-ideas-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Directions<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Mash bananas, add sugar and the slightly beaten egg.<\/li>\n<li>Stir in melted butter.<\/li>\n<li>Stir in dry ingredients.<\/li>\n<li>Spoon into medium size muffin pan (I use the paper muffin cups inside pan).<\/li>\n<li>Bake 20 minutes at 180C degrees<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Click here to find cooking and baking classes for kids, teens and adults in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/extra-murals\/cooking-and-baking\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gauteng<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Note: If you enjoyed this article, and would like to stay updated with more, you can:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Subscribe to our free weekly Jozikids\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/member-registration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>newsletter<\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0 for parents in Gauteng<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Like us on <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jozikids.co.za\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Facebook<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li><em>Follow us on\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/jozikids\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Instagram<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These muffins are a firm favourite with my children.  They&#8217;re super easy to make and are quite filling too. Muffins are great as snacks in between meals or if you&#8217;re pressed for time between school and extra activities, or even for on-the-run breakfasts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":15523,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food-lunchbox-ideas"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15513"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":361382,"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15513\/revisions\/361382"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}