HMR Recipes - Muffin Frosting

The HMR muffin recipe is pretty good by itself.  They are dense, moist, and chewy.

I miss putting butter on my muffins.  That's where making a pudding comes in handy.  A pudding is a good substitute for frosting and, to a lesser extent, butter.  I'm sure you all know how to make the vanilla or chocolate pudding using the HMR 70 shakes.  For those that don't, here's a link to the HMR 70 page.  Simple recipe as follows:

• 1 packet HMR 70
• +/- 1/4 cup water
• Flavorings (explained below)
• add packet and water into bowl and whisk.  add or subtract water for desired thickness.

That's it.  You can spread the pudding on top of the muffins OR you can dip the muffins in the pudding.  You can also dress up the frosting anyway you'd like, add sweetener, spices,  flavorings, etc.  My favorite flavoring to add is the Jello Sugar free cheesecake pudding.  Add 1 TB of this stuff and it makes for an excellent frosting.  AND by using the frosting, you get an extra shake in.

I've been plagiarized!

I was looking for other HMR blogs to follow or link too.  There are surprisingly few blogs chronicling the dieting endeavors of people on the HMR diet.  In my search I came across an older blog, HMR Girl.  It's old, the last post being Nov 20009, but I found an entry that looked familiar: http://www.blogtolose.com/profiles/blogs/hrm-recipe-cereal-muffins

Yup, that's my muffin recipe.  Nothing paraphrased, lifted with a few paragraphs and sentences removed, with no attributions.  On the one hand I'm not very pleased, someone posting my work as their own.  On the other, I think it is really cool.  I hope the recipe helped her and whoever else read her blog.  I would have just appreciated a track back link or something.  Well I'm not going to be too hard on her, it seems like she quit blogging after a week.  I hope she didn't quit the diet.

EDIT: While we're on the subject of recipes, here are a couple sites with some great ideas:

Hackley Health Management
http://www.hackleyhealthmanagement.com/recipes/

HMR Official page
http://www.hmrprogram.com/index.cfm/Recipes/FeaturedRecipe

Double EDIT:  HMR Girl commented on my recipe.   If you are still following HMR Girl, I hope your diet worked out for you.

HMR Recipes - HMR Muffins

I will be posting my favorite HMR recipes. The recipes will be for shakes, soups, and cereal for now. When I transition to entrees and vegetables, I will start posting recipes for those items. HMR recipes can be found all over the internet. The HMR site has a great section for recipes. I picked up this recipe in class last week. I tried it out and modified it some. it is great if you are looking for something you can chew when you get tired of drinking all your meal replacements:

HMR muffins: total calories: ~930 (8 muffins = 116.25/muffin, 6 muffins = 155/muffin)
3 packets HMR cereal
3 packets HMR 70 vanilla shakes
1 cup splenda (the splenda used for baking)
1 tbsp cinnamon (sub. pumpkin pie spice or apple pie spice)
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 cup water

Mix dry ingredients gently. Mix in liquids, combine until you have a thick 'batter.' Spray cupcake pan with Pam or other non-calorie, non-stick cooking spray. fill eight cups in the pan, 2/3's full. Bake at 375 for 15-30 minutes or until you can run a knife through and it comes out clean.

The muffins are quite dense and chewy, though may not have that filling feeling you get from shakes. When eaten with shakes it makes a great way to get a double meal replacement.

The original recipe calls for the baking to be done in a loaf pan for 45-60 minutes. I tried this and it produces a flat dense loafy thing. The cupcake pan did a better job giving it a more bready texture and it cooked faster. I'm going to try adding a pinch of baking powder to see if I can get it to rise more, giving it even more bready texture. I miss bread.