On days you just don't have time to sit down for a bowl of oatmeal or whip up a veggie-filled omelette, it's nice to have healthy muffins on hand so you're not eating a high-fat breakfast on the go.

Try any of these healthy muffin recipes for your best breakfast on the run:

The winning flavours of apples and cheese and a not-too sweet batter make this muffin a good choice for breakfast, a snack or even dessert. 

Although this dessert muffin offers a certain amount of glamour and indulgence, it delivers a good dose of healthy fibre via the whole wheat flour and crushed pineapple. 

If you often grab a muffin at a bakery, you'll save hundreds of calories by choosing these light snacks. 

In Boston, a popular muffin with cranberries and blueberries is apparently called a Sweet-and-Sour Muffin. Although I’ve never sampled one, here is my version, inspired by the clever name and concept. 

As a quick and healthy breakfast or as a snack, these rye muffins make delicious use of this ancient grain that has been essential to the diet of northern Europeans for millennia.

These muffins make delicious use of whole spelt flour, a grain whose flavour goes especially well with walnuts.

Start your day off with these healthy and wonderfully tasty muffins. Use unhulled (natural brown) sesame seeds if you can find them; they are crunchier and often fresher tasting than their white hulled counterparts.

These nut-packed, apple-flavoured muffins are about as healthy as they can be without tasting earnest. Use dark, rich buckwheat honey for baking with whole grains and nuts; it’s almost as if you have added a touch of molasses.