Are you an emotional eater?  I am.

I came back from Kansas City with a big reality check.  Long story short I ate a muffin after lunch at work yesterday.  I ate my oatmeal for lunch and said, “Whatever” and bought a giant, moist chocolate muffin and a coffee at the starbucks at work.  Let me tell you IT WAS SO GOOD.  I don’t let myself buy snacks like that at work because I know myself well enough and don’t want to create a habit.  But, I NEEEEEEEEDED that muffin.  I saved some of it for today too.

To save money and my waist size I knew I couldn’t eat them every day.  After work I knew I would probably need a muffin tomorrow so I looked up a recipe from one of my favorite bloggers.  Banana and chocolate muffins.  I had most of the ingredients!

I used what I had on hand: All purpose flour vs whole wheat, honey, dark chocolate cocoa powder, and fat free greek yogurt.  It called for 3 ripe bananas.  There was a bunch of greenish bananas and one lone brown one on the counter.  I remembered the one I had in my work bag that I never got around to eating.  Ok, 2 ripe bananas.  Good enough.

Since these turned into chocolate and peanut butter I added some PB2.

Chocolate chips:  I couldn’t find chocolate chips anywhere.  I thought I remembered buying some and didn’t remember using them in anything.  Did I just eat them out of the bag?  Possibility.  I almost gave up, but REEEEEALLY wanted these muffins.  What’s a girl to do?  I could walk down the street to the dollar store, but I wanted to be resourceful.  I almost gave in when I looked the candy jar!  My aunt had just filled it up, but I didn’t want to use her candy either.  (Struggle bus)  I didn’t want to leave the house to buy ingredients and I didn’t want to use ingredients bought by other people.

I texted her: “Can I use Reese’s peanut butter cups for muffins?”
“Of course!”

Sometimes, good things happen when you are busy looking for something else. 🙂