JUMP TO RECIPE These healthy gingerbread oatmeal muffins taste so cozy and festive! They’re really moist with soft oats and warm spices filling every bite.This easy muffin recipe comes together quickly and also works beautifully as a make-ahead breakfast option.It’s especially perfect for the holiday season — and even Christmas morning!     For Christmas one year, my brother and I flew to Arizona to visit our grandparents.

Mom headed out before us and booked us flights that allowed us to maximize every moment with family, which meant… Waking up at 4 am to leave for the airport.We effortlessly cruised along the barren freeways in the pitch-black darkness that morning, making it to the terminal in record time.However, that luck ended the moment we passed through the sliding glass doors into the building.

The chaos of the holiday season meant the security checkpoint line snaked through the walkways, wrapped around itself, and wound all the way around the baggage claim room too.It would’ve taken almost two hours to shuffle forward and finally pass through, at which point we would’ve missed our flight…     So with crossed fingers, we darted over to the second terminal.Bingo — only four families waited in line there! We quickly breezed through and rolled our carryon bags down the back hallway connecting the two terminals to reach our gate.

With zero nonstop flights to the small airport closest to our grandparents’ town, we disembarked in Las Vegas

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