Midnight Muffins

It started early on in my first trimester, waking up in the middle of the night with a strange stomach pain that would only go away when I ate.  It wasn't hunger, just pain.
Now as I enter my third trimester I've come to expect that no matter what I eat, or when I eat it, I will wake up at 2:30am, walk to the kitchen and get a snack.  Most likely the first 3 months this night time eating was driven by the fact that I simply couldn't eat enough during the day due to food aversions, indigestion, and low appetite. Now that I can eat adequately during the  day I've have had several nights where I didn't need a snack. But many nights I still do.   
So what does one eat at 2:30am? I've settled on pumpkin or banana bread. Sometimes I'll have 1/2 banana with P.B., but most nights I have 1/2 of a midnight muffin with a little butter, nut butter, or cream cheese on it. My favorite recipe is the Chunky Monkey Muffins from Primal Cravings.  I make a few changes that better suit my tastes and needs. I replace the coconut sugar with Swerve or erythritol to lower the carb/sugar content. For a while I swapped the mashed banana with canned pumpkin. I always leave out the chocolate chips and walnuts for myself since they can get stuck in my teeth, but I'll make 1/2 the batch with them since Ryan likes the chocolate chips.
Why this works for me:
1. I can use the light from the fridge to find the muffin container on the counter and spread whatever fat I want onto it.
2. I don't make so much noise that I wake up Ryan.
3. Unlike munching on nuts, crackers, or cereal, the muffins don't get stuck in my teeth, leaving me to pick it out with my tongue as crawl back in bed.
4. It's just the right amount of food so I fall back asleep quickly, and stay asleep.
5. It's fast and I don't really have to think about it.
  

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