Double Cherry Oatmeal Bowl & WIAW 17
You’ll love waking up to my creamy, warm, and naturally sweet double cherry oatmeal bowl studded with chia seeds and topped with warm cherries, nut/seed butter and more protein-packed seeds or nuts!
I get in ruts. Usually breakfast ruts, but ruts nonetheless. I go through phases where I eat the same exact thing for breakfast for about 2-3 weeks, and naturally, I’m obsessed with it…like can’t get enough, lick the bowl. If you’ve been a long-time reader you’ve seen me through my smoothie phase, then smoothie bowl phase, and now as the weather is warming, it’s become a chia oatmeal bowl phase.
Enter this lovely concoction:
In case you couldn’t tell thus far, breakfast was my Double Cherry Oatmeal Bowl…but cold after I finished taking some pics. Because when is my food NOT cold?! #foodbloggerlife
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You see, here’s what I love best about oatmeal…it’s a stick to your ribs type of morning meal. And for someone who wakes up hungry every.darn.day, I need that type of breakfast. And my smoothie bowls had been leaving me unsatisfied (#overkill) so I needed something a bit more winter-appropriate (AKA warm, gooey, sweet, and SATISFYING). But I also needed my brekkie to be healthy, nourishing, and energizing because, don’t we all???
This Double Cherry Oatmeal Bowl is…
- Warm
- Gooey and creamy
- Filling (I skipped my morning snack and wasn’t hungry until 1pm!)
- Vegan/Gluten Free/Nut Free = food allergy friendly!
- 350 calories per serving…with nearly 14 grams of fiber and 12 grams protein (stats include the added toppings!)
- Satisfying and satiating
- Sweet, but without added sugar
Get the recipe below!
So since I was so full and satisfied after breakfast, I skipped my morning snack and wasn’t hungry again until about 1pm (which is RARE for moi!)…
I made a big salad with everything AND the kitchen sink – spinach (I prooomise it’s under there somewhere!), cukes, sun dried tomatoes, fresh bell pepper, red onion, capers, about ¼ of an avo, a few hard boiled egg whites, a bit of feta, and some pepitas – with a side of brown rice crackers.
I spent the afternoon organizing a few closets in my apartment, finishing up Friday’s blog post (a sweet treat – perfect for Valentine’s Day OR your Super Bowl party!) and pushing back my workout each hour (guilty!)…So in between I snacked on an apple…
And a leftover cookie. Sorry I ate it too fast, but it looked like this…
I finally got my act together to workout after I plugged away a few more hours on my computer. I’m (still) on days 51-60 of Tracy Anderson’s Metamorphosis. I was feeling so sleepy (hence the cookie…trust me, it doesn’t work!) so I skipped my cardio today (listen to your body!).
I decided to tackle two of my closets tonight and then paused for dinner. I warmed up with leftover veggie soup (Did you check out my 1st Instagram video?!) and spaghetti squash with garlic and parmesan cheese (one of my favorites!).
I continued cleaning out closets and then caught up on my trashy TV. Ummm that last minute two-on-one date on this week’s Bachelor?! Oh em gee! Obviously I was munching on popcorn while I was watching!
Aaaand that was my day! Now for that recipe…
- ¾ cup rolled oats (gluten free, if needed)
- ½ cup water
- 1 ¼ cup milk of choice, divided
- ¼ teaspoon sea salt
- 1 tablespoon chia seeds
- ½ teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- ½ teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 tablespoon dried cherries, no added sugar
- 1 cup frozen whole cherries
- Optional toppings: 1 tablespoon nut/seed butter, whole nuts/seeds, additional dried cherries
- In a small saucepan over low-medium heat combine oats, water, 1 cup milk, sea salt and chia seeds and mix to combine and let cook for about 10 minutes, stirring occasionally.
- Once mixture begins to thicken and bubble, turn off heat, add vanilla, cinnamon, dried cherries, another ¼ cup milk and stir until additional milk is absorbed, about another 5 minutes.
- In the meantime, microwave frozen cherries for 30 seconds, mix, then microwave for another 30 seconds, until defrosted.
- Once oatmeal is completely cooked and all excess liquid is absorbed, divide mixture in 2 bowls. Mix in liquid from frozen cherries and top with whole cherries, nut/seed butter of choice and additional nuts/seeds of choice. Sprinkle with another pinch of sea salt before enjoying immediately!
Tell me: Do you get in food ruts? Love ’em or hate ’em?!
XO
Cherries are my life, so I need to make this!!! It looks delicious! 🙂
Cherry oatmeal is one of my favorites! Of course I make it overly chocolately too 😉