I have been blueberry picking a few times now over the summer and it has been fun making all my favorite blueberry recipes into gluten free baked goods. Recently I was looking through and old cookbook: "Jane Brody's Good Food Book, Living The High Carbohydrate Way" and came across a recipe for sugarless blueberry muffins that I have never tried before. I made them gluten free by substituting the flour with a gluten free all-purpose baking mix, otherwise I followed the recipe exactly. I was really impressed with the results. As you can see they are bursting with berries and have a natural sweet taste from the orange juice. I was also happy to calculate the calories in the muffin and figured out each one has only 150 calories for a good size muffin. Compared to the calories in a Dunkin Donut blueberry muffin with 460 calories and the reduce fat version with 410 for a similar size blueberry muffin. Even if you want a little extra sweetness with this muffin a tablespoon of regular jam is about 50 calories and this still keeps the calorie count at a reasonable level. So give them a try and enjoy a guilt free snack, that is also tasty.
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