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    7 Ways to Use an Old Banana

    Photo by: Family Kitchen
    Add Them to Avocado
    Combine avocado with old bananas for a moist, healthy take on banana bread. The flavor of the avocado bakes out, so all you have left is a beautiful bread ... more 
    Photo by: Family Kitchen
    Add Them to Avocado
    Combine avocado with old bananas for a moist, healthy take on banana bread. The flavor of the avocado bakes out, so all you have left is a beautiful bread that you'll want to enjoy for breakfast, lunch, and midnight snacking!
    Make avocado banana bread
    Ingredients
    2 cups whole wheat flour
    1 Tbsp baking powder
    ½ tsp sea salt
    2 avocados from Mexico, pureed
    2 ripe bananas, mashed
    3/4 cup honey
    1 tsp vanilla
    Directions
    Preheat oven to 350F. In a medium bowl, combine flour, baking powder and salt. In a large bowl, combine avocado, banana, honey and vanilla. Fold dry mixture into the avocado-banana mixture. Once combined, spoon into greased mini loaf pans, spreading evenly. Bake for 25 to 30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into middle of loaf comes out clean. Let cool, then run a knife along the edges and invert to release. less 
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    Mon, Nov 12, 2012 11:13 PM EST
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    I tend to get a little ambitious about my banana buying. Everytime I buy a bunch of bananas, I'm sure we'll gnaw our way through them once they hit their four-hour peak of perfection…that ideal moment in time when they are neither green nor bruised, perfectly and ever-so-barely yellow. Apparently, however, that four-hour window happens in three seconds flat, and I'm left with a bin of overly-ripe bananas before I even remember I'd purchased them in the first place. Luckily, there are more than a few incredible recipes that require a good, overripe banana. Here are 7 recipes that will use up those old bananas in no time at all! - By Brooke McLay



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