My husband adored this bread. It comes out thick and moist. Raisins are a nice treat. For the bananas, I substituted 1/3 of the quantity with cinnamon applesauce.

This was the best banana bread I have ever had. I used 3 large bananas since thats what I had to use up. Very moist, Very tasty. The raisins add a little extra sweetness that was just right. I chopped them up in a mini food processor so they weren't too prominient. I also added a cup or so of chopped walnuts. Yum Yum!

We like the texture the oatmeal brings to this bread. My daughter doesn't like fruit, expecially bananas, but will eat this.

It's a sad thing to watch a 34 year old woman give herself a stomach ache from eating 6 mini muffins and a small slice of this bread when it came out the oven. MAN is this some good stuff! Hubby ate some and said it's one of my finest breads to date. I subbed 1/2 cup applesauce and 1/2 cup butter for the shortening, omitted the raisins and added some walnuts and a few chocolate chips. DIVINE! It doesn't rise much but who cares! I'm soooo making this again. Soon...like probably tomorrow!

"BOB" is great. I followed the advice of a previous comment to sub applesauce and butter and it turned out really well. It didn't rise as much as I would have liked, but the taste was good and hearty. Made a very good breakfast bread.

This is the best banana bread. It always goes quickly. I add 1/4 cup wheatgerm. For special mornings I add mini chocolate chips and make muffins.

Very tasty, I did everything just as instructed, though I did not measure the banana. I just mashed the 6 that I needed to use and added it to the bowl. Delicious and moist, a HUGE hit around here, even with my picky 3 year old. Thanks for a great recipe!

Just pulled this out of the oven and after cooling a short bit, sliced into our first piece. YUMMY! I stuck with the reviews and used 1/2c apple sauce and 1/2c butter. I only had 2 ripe bananas on hand so that's what I used. The flavor and texture is great, but I could see adding more bananas the next time around to give it more of a banana taste. Because I only had 2 bananas I added some extra milk to keep it moist. The consistency was perfect. The bread does come out looking dark, but it didn't affect the taste at all. Definitly a great recipe!

I had never made bread before this one! It was the best! I did the applesauce, butter and wheat flour subs. Thanks a million for this recipe!

Excellent banana bread recipe. I used 1/2 applesauce and 1/2 spread as suggested in other reviews. I also used whole wheat flour. It was absolutely delicious. Thank you for the recipe!!

Loved it. It tastes great, it uses up ripe banannas (which is wonderful since our banannas always seem to turn very quickly) and it adds a good boost of fiber.

I have made MANY banana breads, but this one is by far the BEST one EVER. It is so very moist, and delicious. The oats give it such a wonderful texture! It is a wonderful bread to have with tea, or coffee. My hubby LOVED it! It was a hit over here in my house!! Thanks so much for this wonderful recipe!

This is a good version of the typical Banana Bread. The oatmeal makes it much more hearty and dense, but it is not dry! My loaves did not rise much, but it was still good. I took other reviewers advice and used cinnamon applesauce in place of the shortening.

This recipie is T-E-R_riffic! Best of all my husband loves it, and I feel good about adding a few more oats to his diet. You can cut the sugar to about 3/4 cup and then add mini-chocolate chips. I add a whole tsp. of vanilla. Excellente'!

5 Stars. A wonderful, tasty bread. Used 1/2 Cup applesauce and 1/2 Cup butter in place of shortening, used 3 bananas for a moist bread, no raisins. The crust came out really well! Lovely.

I call this recipe 'BOB' (: Great bread, have made several times! I really like the addition of oatmeal to the traditional BB...However, I sub 1/2 applesauce, 1/2 butter to make it a bit healthier instead of the shortening. Turned out very nice! Thank you! Note: only use 2 small bananas in this in the posted pic. Only added a 'splash' of milk.

Loved this bread. Made it exactly as the recipe and it was good, but a little too sweet for me. I then made it again.Replaced the shortening with Earth Balance, used raw sugar and cut the qty in half and left out the raisins. It turned out pretty good. Nothing wrong with the original, but it is a health issue.