Banana Oat Bread

Description

 * Makes 18 servings.
 * From files of Alice 2/03/93

Ingredients

 * 2¼ cup all-purpose flour
 * ⅔ cup honey-crunch wheat germ
 * ½ cup oats, uncooked
 * ¼ cup brown sugar, packed
 * 1 tbsp baking powder
 * ½ tsp salt
 * ¼ tsp baking soda
 * 10 tbsp light corn oil spread, 1½ sticks
 * 1½ cup mashed bananas, about 3 medium
 * 6 oz can frozen apple juice concentrate, thawed
 * ½ cup egg substitute, thawed
 * ⅓ cup walnuts, chopped
 * 1 tsp vanilla extract

Directions
About 2 hours before serving, or early in the day:
 * 1) Preheat oven to 350 °F. Grease 9"x5" loaf pan.
 * 2) In large bowl, mix first 7 ingredients. With pastry blender, cut in corn-oil spread until mixture resembles coarse crumbs.
 * 3) Stir in bananas, undiluted apple-juice concentrate, egg substitute, walnuts, and vanilla just until flour is moistened.
 * 4) Spoon batter into pan. Bake 60 minutes or until toothpick inserted into center of bread comes out clean.
 * 5) Cool bread in pan on wire rack 10 minutes; remove from pan and cool slightly.
 * 6) Serve warm, or cool completely to serve later.

Nutritional Information
Each serving: about 180 calories, 5 g. Fat, 0 mg cholesterol, 135 mg sodium. Diabetic exchanges: 1 starch, 1 fruit, 1 fat