HEALTHY BANANA CAKE RECIPES

This banana cake recipe will be your new favorite!  It's made with no refined sugar, or butter but has so much sweet banana flavor. It comes together so easily and is topped with a healthy and vegan whipped cream frosting. No one will believe how good for you it it!

Happy Monday to all my food loving friends! I woke up today feeling energized and refreshed! Anyone else excited for the what this week has in store? I was motivated and ready to tackle what it has to offer.

But to be completely honest, this is the first time I felt this way in a while. I've been in kind of a funk for the past three weeks. Life is so great. My work is going well, I'm feeling super passionate and fulfilled in this food blogging journey and I snagged myself a fiance. But day-to-day I've been missing the zest and excitement that typically empowers me daily.

I've been so stressed and worried about the little things that are associated with this here blog and my full time job that I've lost sight of the big picture. That's making a difference in your lives by giving you the best and most delicious recipes you can eat and share with your loved ones.

Ingredients
Cake:

• 2 cups all white whole wheat flour or all-purpose flour
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
• 3 bananas ripe
• 1/2 cup vanilla or plain greek yogurt
• 1/3 cup pure maple syrup
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 tablespoon coconut oil melted and slightly cooled
• 1 egg room temperature

Coconut whipped cream:

• 2 14 ounce cans full fat coconut milk
• 8 tablespoons honey agave or maple syrup
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Instructions

1. Preheat the oven to 350'F. Spray an 8 inch square baking pan with cooking spray and set aside.
2. In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, cinnamon, baking soda and salt. Set aside.
3. In a blender, combine the bananas, greek yogurt, maple syrup, vanilla, coconut oil and egg. Blend until smooth, about 1 minute. Pour the blended wet ingredients into the dry ingredients. Whisk well until incorporated.
4. ....................................

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The problem with today's guidelines are the plans are based on: age, geographic location, the ability to pay, the rising cost of medical technology and taxes. Notice there is nothing mentioned about your overall health conditions. Until the underwriting process is brought back into the equation, then insurers' will never be able to accurately measure their risk and set premium prices at affordable rates. The message to insurers' is the fact that no one should be denied health insurance due to their finances or health related conditions to help protect against their financial losses when and if they occurred.

During this era a majority of insurance companies especially those that specialize in the health sector jumped on the band wagon with lower premiums knowing financial assistance would be there to help pay for coverage. Plans were and are designed to basically take the American peoples' money first before paying any claims. Once the claims began to come from more than enough people, then insurers' realized their premiums were set too low and began experiencing financial losses. There is no coincidence today why as consumers we hear about large health carriers pulling out of the marketplace and are no longer willing to participate this coming 2018 season under the ACA format.

The solution for consumers, we have to educate ourselves and grasp a good understanding and not listen to all the rhetoric in the media. We need a suite of insurance products to benefit us in the event there are some types of loss. Whether its a loss of life, the inability to work for certain period of time, or failing health our money needs to be protected at reasonable rates. Do this now while you are still healthy with the right kind of life and health insurance plans; underwriting is the key.

There are more than enough life and health insurance companies who offer benefits to protect your money. They never moved into this whole affordable care dilemma. Insurance today is still being sold on the premise of an individual's risk factors. These type of plans whether they are: accident, cancer, critical illness, dread disease, hospitalization, preventive care and wellness, also known as MEC (minimum essential coverage) or life insurance policies are and will always be available.

The Affordable Care Act is a good law that needs to be revised and not replaced. In today's environment of government uncertainty, why listen to such chaos? "People perish because of a lack of knowledge." Hosea 4:6a. Now that you have been given this knowledge, perish not; be encouraged and do the right thing for your family and your finances.

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