Skinny pancakes? Yes, please! I?ll take a wheat-free, banana-packed, absolutely delicious breakfast ANYDAY?and so will your family! These yummy cakes are easy enough to make with your kiddos alongside you. Tomorrow?s breakfast dilemma is solved!
Skinny Pancakes
Serves 1 ? so double, triple, or quadruple for your family
What you?ll need:
2 egg whites
1/2 cup uncooked gluten-free oats
1/2 banana
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
A dash of cinnamon
How to make them:
1. Place all ingredients in a food processor or blender. Blend for 15-20 seconds or until mixed.
2. Spray hot griddle with non-fat cooking spray.
3. Pour batter onto griddle and cook until edges are golden brown. This should make about 3 small cakes.
4. Top with spray butter (if desired) and all natural syrup or agave nectar.
5. Enjoy!
What?s in them:
In one serving (3 small cakes): 246 calories, 2.9 g fat, 41.6 g. carbohydrate, 13.1 g protein.
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I have a quick question…I am a mom and have a full time job outside of the home so to ensure I can workout 5 days a week I get up at 4:30 to head to the gym. In the carb cycling plan it indicates to eat within 30 minutes of waking…however, that would be when I am already at the gym. Would it be a killer to the overall plan to eat after I get home from the gym or on my way to work? I just don’t want to start carb cycling off on the wrong foot and not get expected results because I am not working with the plan. Any advice would be well recieved. Love watching Extreme Weight Loss and how you help ordinary people transform their lives!
Hi Brandi: Welcome to carb cycling! Here’s a post from Heidi’s blog with some great info on eating and working out: https://heidipowell.net/9194/qa-with-the-powells-to-eat-or-not-to-eat/. Hope it helps!
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I found another banana pancake recipe that is super simple like this one, and my kids love it.
Whip one egg with one mashed banana. Cook with some cooking spray. They are a little tricky to flip, let them cook well on the first side. So easy?so good!!
Heidi, thanks for all the great tips and insight you share on your site!! I love your Vemma Strawberry Cheesecake Shake and your Chicken Chili. Yum!! and thank you!!
Jill LaFond
Vemma Platinum Leader
Tampa, FL
What catergory does flax seed and chia seed fall under? Fat?
Any type of seeds and nuts are fats. 🙂
Thank you!! Made these for breakfast and they were delicious!
I freeze my bananas all the time because I buy them and then of course don’t get through them and my one son decides he is over bananas. My question is have you used defrosted bananas in this recipe ever? Have you notice a difference in the pancake if you have? If not I will give it a try & let you know how they worked out.
Give it a try! 🙂
So since fruits are apart of the carb category I find that fruit ends up being my carb option with my meals on high carb days. My question is should I limit my carbs from fruit intake and stick more towards the other carbs like the whole wheat pasta, breads, brown rice, etc.?
Thanks
It’s good to eat a variety of carbs (although those tasty and sweet fruits are so yummy!), so try and spread different ones throughout your high carb days.
On the turbo cycle. Or really any cycle, is flavored water (zero calories and 0 sodium) or water with lime and cucumber okay to have rather than just drinking flat water?
Thanks 🙂 Team Powell is awesome
With flavored water, if it’s sweetened, make sure it’s sweetened with Stevia or xylitol. Other than that, you’re good to go! And thank you – we do our best! 🙂
Hi Heidi!
I am doing the carb cycle, so when I saw this it made me start wondering all over again. I have searched everywhere in yours and Chris’ web stuff (and read his book Choose to Loose) and no where can I find a number on how many carbs you can have on a low day and a high day. Is 41g of carbs ok for 1 meal doing this plan?
Thanks
In carb cycling, we don’t count grams of anything, we count portion sizes (and calories, if you’d like). Carb cycling is formulated so you get the number of grams of macros you need automatically, so when you follow the program, you’re good to go. There’s an awesome graphic in this post (as well as some other helpful info) that will outline for you how to put together every meal in carb cycling: https://heidipowell.net/4514/carb-confusion/.
Hi ,
My 12 year is type one diabetic. We keep her at 30/60 carbs or less per meal. Even meals with protein carb and fat. Do you have any low carb meals kids would love ? Or any “free” under 5 carb snacks ?
I do this almost exact recipe but 2 egg whites 1 whole egg, 1 banana, dash vanilla and treat then like crepes it usually makes 3! Then add whatever you want for me is either just sprinkled with cinnamon sugar or berries and whip cream! I love them and the only carbs are the banana!
New to plan. Is gluten free a must? Do I have to use it? Are the gluten free oats comparable in cost and availability?
No, you can use regular oats if you’d like to. Enjoy!