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Weight Watchers Recipe of the Day: Healthy Blueberry Muffins
Do you have a weak spot for blueberry muffins?
I have loved them for as long as I can remember but I don’t indulge in them very often.
Blueberries are healthy but the blueberry muffins found in today’s bakery cases are not!
They are huge calorie and sugar bombs that my body really doesn’t appreciate. Sure, they taste good, but within an hour or two I’m shaky and ravenous. A feeling I try to avoid.
Not to mention the calories…
Did you know that muffins sold today in coffee shops, grocery stores, and vending machines are more than twice as big as those sold back in the 1950s, and are more than three times the size of one standard portion?
Making Lighter Blueberry Muffins
A little online research revealed that the blueberry muffins sold at Starbucks pack 450 calories, 22 grams of fat, and 31 grams of sugar, while those at Dunkin Donuts are even worse!
That’s more than twice the calories of a glazed donut and more than the typical chocolate croissant.
That’s where healthy blueberry muffins come in.
There are thousands of different blueberry muffin recipes – but how many of them are healthy muffin that also tastes great?
Not many!
You can boost the nutrition of your blueberry muffins in lots of different ways – use wholewheat flour instead of white, decrease the sugar and fat, and add more blueberries – for starters.
And by baking them in standard muffin tins, intend of the jumbo ones, you will have healthy blueberry muffins that are much closer to a realistic portion size.
Here is a great collection of healthy blueberry muffin recipes for you to try.
And heres a great video demonstrating how to make Healthy Honey Chobani Blueberry Muffins from the folks at Chobani yogurt…
Blueberry Oat Muffins Recipe
This healthy delicious healthy blueberry muffin recipe is adapted from 750 Best Muffin Recipes: Everything from breakfast classics to gluten-free, vegan and coffeehouse favorites, a great book by one of my all time favorite food writers and recipe developers, Camilla Saulsbury.
How Many Calories and WW Points in these Low Fat Blueberry Oat Muffins?
According to my calculations, each muffin has about 173 calories.
To see your WW Points for this recipe, track it in the WW App!
(You must be logged into WW on a smartphone or tablet.)
If you like these easy, healthy blueberry oat muffins, be sure to check out some of my other Weight Watchers friendly recipes including Strawberry Streusel Muffins, Low-Fat Apple Bran Muffins, Raspberry Oatmeal Muffins, Mini Banana Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Muffins and WW 2-Ingredient Chocolate Pumpkin Muffins
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Blueberry Oat Muffins Recipe
Ingredients
- 1-3/4 cups quick-cooking oats
- 1 cup whole wheat pastry flour
- 2 teaspoons cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup packed light brown sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 3 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 2 teaspoons finely grated lemon zest
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1-1/2 cups low-fat buttermilk
- 1-1/2 cups blueberries
Instructions
- Position an oven rack in the center of the oven and preheat oven to 400F degrees. Grease a standard 12-cup muffin pan.
- In a food processor (affiliate link) or blender (affiliate link), pulse the oats until they resemble coarse meal.
- In a large bowl, whisk together the oats, flour, cinnamon, baking soda, baking powder and salt until well combined and then set the bowl aside.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together the brown sugar, eggs, oil, lemon zest, vanilla, and buttermilk until well blended.
- Add the sugar/egg mixture to the flour mixture and stir until just blended and then gently stir in the blueberries.
- Divide the batter equally among the prepared muffin cups of the muffin pan.
- Bake in the preheated oven until the tops are golden and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, about 18 to 23 minutes.
- When they are done, remove pan from the oven and let muffins cool in the pan on a wire rack for 5 minutes, then transfer them out of the pan and onto a wire rack to cool completely.
Notes
(You must be logged into WW on a smartphone or tablet.) 5 PointsPlus (Old plan) You can boost the nutrition of your blueberry muffins in lots of different ways – use wholewheat flour instead of white, decrease the sugar and fat, and add more blueberries – for starters. And by baking them in standard muffin tins, intend of the jumbo ones, you will have healthy blueberry muffins that are much closer to a realistic portion size.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Recipe Source: 750 Best Muffin Recipes: Everything from breakfast classics to gluten-free, vegan and coffeehouse favorites by Camilla Saulsbury.
More Healthy Blueberry Muffin Recipes
Whole Wheat Blueberry Muffins – This is the ultra of blueberry muffins, the blue ribbon winner at the state fair, the top of the blueberry muffin heap with 202 calories, 7.1 g fat, 31 g carbs and 5 WW PointsPlus. Recipe from King Arthur Flour.
Healthier Blueberry Muffins – I think that sometimes muffins can be so sweet that they’re almost like a cupcake. To me, that’s fine for a snack, but I don’t usually like to eat an overly sweet breakfast. These muffins are just slightly sweetened, which really lets the flavor of the blueberries come through. Found at Sara’s Kitchen.
Blueberry Oat Bran Muffins – Cue in this blueberry oat bran muffin, which hits all four bases and, despite its good-for-you bran content, doesn’t taste like a punishment devised by some misguided flower-child baker. (But then I really like oat bran.) Recipe from Chocolate & Zucchini.
Vegan Blueberry Muffins – Here comes another amazing vegan recipe from The Joy of Vegan Baking. I’m pretty sure that this is the best eggless/vegan blueberry muffin one can bake. Found at Eggless Cooking.
Whole Wheat Low Fat Blueberry Muffins – with whole wheat pastry flour and applesauce and only 4 Weight Watchers PointsPlus, 5 SmartPoints found at SkinnyTaste.
Health Nut Blueberry Muffins – an awesome good-for-you blueberry muffin filled with whole wheat flour, oat bran, wheat germ and walnuts with 196 calories, 5.8 g fat, 33.4 g carbs and 5 Weight Watchers PointsPlus Values. Found at AllRecipes
Here’s another healthy recipes for blueberry oat chia seed muffins:
More Weight Watchers Friendly Healthy Muffin Recipes
12 Tips for Making Healthy Muffin Muffins from Scratch
Healthy Apple Pecan Muffins – with whole wheat flour, applesauce, apples and cinnamon
Old-Fashioned Healthy Muffin Recipes – several recipes along with muffin making ingredient suggestions and baking tips.
Healthy Breakfast Muffins – full of wholesome ingredients including oats, apples and carrots
Whole Wheat Muffins – whole wheat banana and whole wheat pumpkin chocolate chip
Skinny Banana Oatmeal Muffin & Quick Breads – a delicious way to enjoy bananas and oatmeal for breakfast
I saw you had a one point blueberry muffin made with four ingredients
And I cannot find the recipe anywhere Can you reprint it
Thanks
Roseann
I love these blueberry muffins & so does everyone I feed them to! Fantastic Recipe!
I assume the buttermilk should be included in step 4?? The instructions don’t include what to do with the buttermilk.
Yes, Holly, the buttermilk should be included in step 4. I’ve amended the instructions. Thanks!
Thank you, Martha, for including one of my recipes to your list. I dig your what you’re doing here. I’ll be and sure to share your blog with my facebook friends.
Keep having fun! Holler if I can ever do anything for you.
Your new friend,
Jill
Martha, after finding blueberries on sale this week, I decided it was time to find a healthier muffin recipe. These are simply delicious! After reading the various comments, I did make a few changes. So, here is the ingredient version I ended up using:
3/4 c fat free organic milk
1/2 c unsweetened applesauce
1 egg
1 t vanilla
1 c all purpose flour
1 c whole wheat flour
1/2 c brown sugar, packed
3 t baking powder
3/4 t salt
3/4 t cinnamon
1/4 t pumpkin pie spice
1 c blueberries
The Cranberry Chocolate Chip cookies sound so good — just MAY get an energy boost and try them! Perfect timing, too! And of course, all the blueberry muffins that you write about almost send the aroma right to the nostrils! Good job.
I have a ton of blueberries in my fridge right now just waiting to be turned into one of these muffin recipes! 🙂
I have one for ya.
1 cup blueberries
1 cup flour
1 1/2 oats
2 eggs
1 cup buttermilk
3/4 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup white sugar
1 small container of applesauce, the small individual size, the applesauce replaces oil.
Thanks, Kim! We can never have too many healthy blueberry muffin recipes and this sounds like a winner!!
May I have the directions please