The Truth About Banana Bread
Weight Watchers taught me that muffins aren’t the way to go when you are trying to lose weight. My high school biology teacher taught me that white bread has no nutritional value and that I’m much better off eating grain breads. Life has taught me that a bowl of nutritious cereal isn’t something I always have time for. Life has also taught me I have a bit of a sweet tooth.
Solution? Banana bread, of course!
I love banana bread. Good banana bread is soft, moist, sweet and good for you. Right? After all, it’s made with bananas.
I had a rude awakening reading the food section of the newspaper the other day. Banana bread, my preferred sweet treat on special occasions, wasn’t the great, healthier sweet treat that I thought it was.
As it turns out, according to the article I read (no link; it was in an actual paper newspaper), a single slice of banana bread at a café can have twenty to thirty grams of fat in it!
I was disappointed, to say the least.
Even the low-fat banana bread is said to have about the same amount of carbohydrates as three or four slices of regular bread.
So today I say goodbye to my beloved banana bread and go on the search for something else that’s healthier…
Has this ever happened to you? Have you ever had a treat or dish that you thought was healthy or ‘not so bad’ and it turned out that it was bad?
I would love to hear your story!
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