Faux Muffin Nutritional facts and concerns

I am determined to make a healthier snack for my son. I have mentioned several times how picky he is. So I have to find way to sneak in vegetables just to add the vitamins and minerals it offers. I cant say this is the healthiest muffin but I believe its healthier then many other things he can eat. I can also say before he wouldn't eat breakfast at all now he grabs one every morning with a small glass of milk before school. I entered all the ingredients on this website I found to get some of the nutritional fact. After reading I didn't think it was that bad. I know there are still some ingredients I can substitute to make it healthier. Slowly but surely I am making adjustments each time I make it. At the end of the day my family loves them and i see them grabbing on through out the day.. If they only knew they were eating vegetables, oats and flax seed.

After I compared it to normal breakfast gotos like pop tarts and granola bars, there are some areas where the muffins is a little better and there are some areas where it is not. In the areas where its not better I believe I can change to make things better. I know its the flour, butter, sugars, (white, brown and raw) and eggs. I have to be able to change those things to make it better but still not sacrifice on the taste. If I do then I will be back to square one of he not eating anything for breakfast. This batch is almost over and I have to make another batch. I would like to have a batch with more fiber, less cholesterol, less fat, and less carbs.

This recipe came from an oatmeal cake that I made awhile ago that was so good it was hard not to eat as much as you could while it was around. In the back of my mind I knew it was the worst thing to eat. The coconut topping along was a diabetic shock and a heart attack waiting to happen. I knew I had to change it. The first thing that came to mind was the cake part was great and would go well as a base for carrot cake with out the coconut top. Then I thought about a zucchini bread/muffins http://tastee1.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-path-to-my-craft.html. The nutritional facts was more because of all of the ingredients. After making it for a second time I took out a lot of things and added others, I feel like I'm getting there but I still have a long way to go. Going to go bake to original recipe and make adjustments again. Fingers crossed. After doing some research looks like this is going to be a lot harder to make all these changes. Baking with honey and whole wheat flour is going to be a bit tricky. I know I can use apple sauce to replace the eggs, 1/4 cp to 1 egg; maybe use both wheat and white flour. Baking is so tricky and precise any wrong moves and its garbage.