The Front Pocket: Eat Clean Whole Wheat Banana Bread

It's a rainy day out here on the East Coast as we all brace against Hurricane Sandy this weekend. This is the first hurricane season I've been through, ever in my life! It's a weird season in both life and weather that I am not used to. To take my mind off things and well the news, I decided to use up some of my frozen banana's to make some lovely banana bread!

Wasting food just makes me cringe, so I freeze everything I can before it goes bad and bananas are one of these items! I am one of those individuals that has such bad gag reflexes that when any brown on my bananas appear, it puts me over the edge. My family loves to eat them perfectly yellow too, so we buy them every time we go grocery shopping and I just pop them in the freezer when they are good and ripe! (Sometimes I want to gag putting them in the freezer, yup its that bad!) It's so nice to have them on hand on days like this!

My mom always made banana bread growing up, so its become a staple in my house especially in the colder months. However, as I continue to eat cleaner and healthier, I still love to bake yummy goodies! So I've been in the process of trying out different ingredients to get my perfect loaf of Eat Clean Banana Bread! Baking makes it a bit harder for me to steer away from "the bad" and replace with "the good", but every time I bake I at least try! I fell off the clean wagon a couple days ago as I found a yummy recipe in my parenting magazine for chocolate chip pumpkin cookie recipe with cream cheese frosting! I set off to make it "cleaner" but it didn't happen that way! Maybe next time, but my family was excited, especially my girls to get frosted cookies!

Back to the banana bread! I have found a couple different versions that I like and will probably always be experimenting for that perfect loaf, but here is the recipe that won the test today!

Here are the ingredients you will need: