Pumpkin Muffins

I don't just love pumpkin, I looooove all things pumpkin. I don't like cold or even cool temps outside, but I'll permit cool temperatures if that means I can incorporate pumpkin into my diet as much as possible. I've been trying to do more of our shopping at Aldi's to save dollar bills, and as soon as I saw canned pumpkin, I stocked up. I seriously bought 12 cans. I don't think we have 12 cans of anything else in our tiny pantry. That weekend, I made pumpkin oatmeal and these pumpkin muffins.

I loved them, as did my son. I made 18 muffins - and froze half of them. I tweaked the recipe as follows:

Ingredients

• 11/2 cups all-purpose flour (I used 1 cup)
• 2 cups whole wheat flour (I used 2.5 cups)
• 2/3 cup rolled oat
• 1/2 cup oat bran
• 4 tsps baking powder
• 2 tsps baking soda
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 4 tsps cinnamon
• 2 tsps ground ginger (omitted)
• 1 tsp nutmeg
• 3 mashed bananas (ripe)
• 1 cup applesauce
• 15 ozs canned pumpkin
• 4 eggs (lightly beaten) (I used 3)
• 1 cup granulated sugar (I used .5)
• 1 cup brown sugar (packed) (I used .5)
• 1 cup chopped walnuts (omitted)