Those muffins that are made out of flax seed and wheat bran (someone posted the recipe on this site) totally rock! It satsifies my need for a bread-like food, while containing only 1.5 "effective" carbs per muffin. I did all the math yesterday. There are 5 carbs in the wheat bran and 4 in the flax seed, for a total of 9 carbs in a muffin. But there are 4 grams of fiber in the flax seed and 3.5 grams of fiber in the wheat bran portions for one muffin, for a total of 7.5 grams of fiber. If we are allowed to subtract fiber count from carb count, that gives us 9 minus 7.5 or 1.5 grams of carbs. The less good news is that men under 50 need 38 grams of fiber a day! I get some from the few nuts I eat (about 2 grams), and veggies (strangely low-carb veggies seem to be low in fiber...spinach and brocoli in the amounts I eat it only give me a few grams). But that only accounts for about 5 or 6 grams. But now I can eat a few of those muffins a day and get kinda close (way closer than I have been) to getting the fiber I need. Let's see. I would need to eat 4 per day. Could it be that's a little extreme?

Ken

I just learned that there are 2.5 grams of fiber in 2 tsp of ground cinnamon. So if you put 1/4 tsp (optional in the in the recipe) in your muffin, you boost the total fiber count from 7.5 grams to 8.75 grams (adding the 1.25 grams from a single tsp). That takes the net carbs per muffin down to .25 grams!! Yay! Now I only have to eat 3.5 - 4 muffins per day to get 38 grams of fiber.

Ken

LOL @ Ken.

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Hi, would you be willing to share the recipe?? They sound terrific.

Thanks,

Hi Im*a*,
Welcome to LCE.
You can find the One Minute Muffin recipe in the cooking forum. It's been made into a *sticky note*, so it's the top thread when you click on Low Carb Cooking forum.

HTH

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Thank you so much. Looks like I gots to do some shoppin'. Sure are versatile are they not??

Ima

Hi Ima,
Yes...gotta love those OMM's.
Of note, they are pretty calorie and fat dense; some folks can get away with eating them twice a day, some of us cannot.(I happen to fall in the can NOT category )

I make a big batch of Maggie's cereal and use it as my base for my muffin. About 1/3C of cereal, 1 egg, 1 tsp of oil, scant 1/4 tsp baking powder, about 5 pecan halves, broken into pieces and whatever extract I chose. I sometimes stir in 2T of canned pumpkin. One of my favs though is to use 1tsp ground cinnamon and about 1/2 tsp orange extract. YUM-O!

So, play around with it and see what you like.

happy muffin making!

S

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Good point, Shelley.

There are so many variations on this theme, that it's a good idea to run the nutritionals on whatever version one's making.

... and keep in mind, for most of us, this is a MEAL, not a snack. Depending on your activity level, YMMV.

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