February is American Heart Health Month. Oats and oatmeal are one of best ways to add a little heart health to your day. Oatmeal is full of fiber, omega-3 fatty acids, folate, and potassium. Oatmeal can help lower your LDL cholesterol (or bad cholesterol) levels. Here is 25 great recipes including oats to add some wonderful …
Morning are very hectic in our house. The boys have gotten to the point they whine when we wake them for school. Once they get going they are fine. I am hoping that these fun, yummy chocolate peanut butter cup overnight oats may encourage them out of beds in the morning. Overnight oats have been …
I got 3 reusable pouches from EZsqueezees to try out in our Back to School lunches. But I found a even better use! Back to School breakfasts. I know it will be really hectic in the mornings getting used to our school routine again. One thing that I want to make sure I have available …
We are starting to build our morning routine for getting Zane off to school. Getting him off by 7:30 each morning is going to be a struggle. But one of the things I’m trying help get him a good start on his day is making sure he gets his breakfast in before leaving. I’m starting to …
I’ve been craving baked items like cake and sweets. This Carrot Cake Oatmeal hit the spot. It was really like eating a piece of carrot cake for breakfast. As for my boys it was a split vote on who liked it. But strangely it was my picky eater who ate his all up! This is …
We are going to be trying to eat more oatmeal this year. It’s filling, inexpensive and you can still make it fun.
Reading Kari’s post really encouraged me in going the oatmeal breakfast morning. I won’t be going full blown into the non-quick oats, just because I have lots of oatmeal packets I have gotten very cheap on clearance and well I’m good at burning everything. The microwave is my friend!
Now I did make sure and find the lowest sugar content possible on the packets. I was happy to find Quacker Weight Control oatmeal. I looked through the ingredients and the only difference on these is lower sugar and more fiber! They have lower sugar than the Quacker Low Sugar oatmeal. I was able to find them at the grocery discount store for a $1 a box. I know not quite as good as 45 cents a pound but for me this is a start.
I am probably switching to bulk quick oats when I run out of packets, but I haven’t decided if I will make my own packets with snack baggies or just scoop it out. We will see how domestic I am at that point.
Now on to how to make oatmeal fun! I love making food fun and cute, remember my bento phase? I don’t make the oatmeal fun everyday, but for special days like holidays I do go all out.
One fun way to add a little pizazz to your oatmeal is color sugar. You can make all kinds of shapes. I did this special bowl on Valentine’s Day. This does add sugar to your breakfast one reason I only do it on special occasions.
Step 1: Make your oatmeal
Step 2: Cut out a shape from paper, I made a heart.
Step 3: Place paper on oatmeal, as close to the oatmeal as possible.
Step 4: Sprinkle with colored sugar
St. Patrick’s Day is coming up and cutting a shamrock out of paper isn’t that hard.
What are some ways you dress up your oatmeal? What is your favorite oatmeal?
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