These paleo and GAPS diet-friendly banana lemon chia seed muffins will brighten up any day with their perfect muffiny texture and delicious flavor!

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The most wonderful meal of the day.

Thereโ€™s no doubt about it, breakfast is the best meal of the day. Especially when you can have dessert for breakfastโ€ฆ Like mocha chia pudding, donuts, or brownies. But weโ€™re not talking about that wonderfulness today. No, today weโ€™re just talking about a normal breakfast food.ย 

You guessed it: muffins.

If youโ€™re not a fan of muffins, you probably should be. Theyโ€™re practically healthy little cakes without frosting. And how could you go wrong there?ย 

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Muffin love.

My family is a huge fan of muffins. Well, at least I am. So I convince the rest of my family to eat them. Theyโ€™d rather have rice cereal, but I think thatโ€™s rather boring (plus I canโ€™t eat rice).

If youโ€™re looking for muffin inspiration, youโ€™ve come to the right place! Here are a few of my grain, dairy, and refined-sugar free favorites:

Banana Lemon Chia Seed Muffins

Even though I obviously have some amazingly delicious muffin standbys, Iโ€™m always on the lookout for new ideas. The other day I was perusing Instagram and came across this post on The Big Manโ€™s Worldโ€™s feed. My brain started buzzing.ย 

After a few tweaks, some additions, and the leaving out of sugars, I was pleased with my new muffin creation. My husband was pleased too! He usually is not a fan of gluten-free muffins, but these were a hit. I even got the much-coveted โ€œThese almost taste like real muffinsโ€ from him.ย 

Thatโ€™s how you know youโ€™ve got a winner.

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A few notes.

Now, when I came up with this muffin, I was hankerinโ€™ for a lemon poppyseed muffin. Unfortunately, I never ever ever have poppyseeds in my house. But thankfully I usually do have a little wonderful thing called chia seeds. And they are the perfect stand-in! If you happen to have poppyseeds around, you can feel free to use those.

In Armanโ€™s recipe, he says that flax eggs will work instead of regular eggs. I personally have not tried this, but I do trust that he has. With his recipe, anyhow. I did add in coconut flour, which normally doesnโ€™t work with flax eggs. But since itโ€™s not a lot of coconut flour, you could probably get away with using flax eggs if you need to be egg-free.

Last note, I did use my homemade baking powder in this recipe. Baking powder is NOT on the GAPS diet, but you can use it if you are just looking for a paleo muffin. If youโ€™re on GAPS, just use baking soda. The muffins wonโ€™t be so fluffy, but theyโ€™ll still be delicious!

These paleo and GAPS diet-friendly banana lemon chia seed muffins will brighten up any day with their perfect muffiny texture and delicious flavor! #banana #lemon #chiaseed #muffins #paleo #fullgapsdiet #breakfast #glutenfree

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Banana Lemon Chia Seed Muffins

Free from grain, gluten, dairy, and refined sugar.

Ingredients

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 and grease/line 12 muffin cups.

In a large bowl, mash bananas. Add in remaining wet ingredients and mix together.

Dump dry ingredients on top of wet ones and mix well.

Pour 1/4 cupfuls into prepared pan and bake for 15-20 minutes.

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