Hot Breakfast Apple Cinnamon Oatmeal

How is everyone’s weekend so far? Enjoy your weather? Where I live it was sunny and cold!
Also sitting in my garage at 8 in the morning wasn’t so fun either. I had an end of summer, beginning of fall garage sale today. Not a lot of sleep, up early in the morning, tons of coffee type of deal. While it was a success, it was not as big as my last one. I think the cold kept people away, but any money helps though.

Keeping with the fall I wanted to give you guys a recipe that was fast and used ingredients that are in season and man do I have a good one for you. The best thing yet is it can be made in a microwave! How cool right?

How does apples and cinnamon oatmeal sound? Good huh? It is a wonderful easy breakfast that will keep you full and going for hours. Remember breakfast is your most important meal so give this one a try. It’s almost like a warm apple pie, yum-o.

Apple Cinnamon Oatmeal

Ingredients

½ of an apple depending on the size, any type you like (a sweeter one is really good)

1 tsp of cinnamon (or to taste)

A dash of nutmeg

½ cup of oatmeal

1 ½ cups of water or milk

Sugar or any sweetener to taste

Cut apply in half, take out core and cut into small chunks. (I only need a half of apple). Put on your cinnamon and nutmeg and sweetener of choice. Stir. Place in microwave for 45 seconds. This is to give the apple some tenderness.

Take out and add your oatmeal and add your liquid of choice. Place back in the microwave and microwave for another 2 minutes.

Let cool. Add another pinch of cinnamon if desired and enjoy!

You have to cook the apple first so this way it will get tender, also cutting into smaller chunks helps, but remember not to cut too small because you want it slightly chunky. My apple still had a slight bite to it, but was nice and warm like an apple pie.

I hope you guys try this one, it was so good!!!

Breakfast for Champions Peanut Butter and Jelly Oatmeal

Happy Monday everyone! How was your weekend? Mine was very nice. I went to garage sales on Saturday and found these awesome books!!! 

I can’t wait to start making recipes from them to show you guys.

I also made a Breakfast for Champions! This is one of my favorite go to recipes for breakfast.  It’s healthy and so good.

I have always added extra liquid to my oatmeal and it always comes out creamy and looks like your getting more. Unfortunately I didn’t put two and two together to realize the liquid makes it expand more and that is why it looks like you are getting more.  

Hungry Girl did claim this on one of her shows so the credit goes to her.  

What you basically do is double the liquid. So if you are cooking on the stove top instead of one cup of water or milk for a half of cup of oatmeal you would add two cups.  Hungry Girl adds one cup of water and one cup of almond milk.  You can use normal milk too.  It takes about ten minutes. 

You can do this in the microwave if short on time.  This is how I do it. I add a few extra things to mine.  1 TBS of vanilla protein powder, 1 TBS of ground Flax Seed and a few pinches of cinnamon. These are all optional.  

The best part of it though comes from the topping.  Today I am making a Peanut Butter and Jelly oatmeal.

My camera was dying on these pictures so I didn’t get a good last picture of the swirl at the end.  I really hope you try this it is really good. 

Here is my recipe adapted from Hungry Girls Growing Oatmeal Bowl.

½ cup of Oatmeal (I add about ¼ cup more b/c I'm a hungry boy)

1 cup of water

¾ cup of Almond Milk (I know it is a little shy of the two cups, but it still comes out the same)

The next 3 you do not have to add if you don’t have on hand

1 TBS of Protein Powder

1 TBS of Ground Flax Seed (good for the heart)

A few pinches of cinnamon 

1 ½ TBS of Peanut Butter

1 TBS of any Jelly you like or have on hand (you can use fresh fruit instead if you have that on hand)

Add all your ingredients to a bowl. Add you liquids and stir well. Microwave on High for 3 minutes watching it after 1 minute.  This mixture will rise up and spill over if you do not watch so please make sure you are watching!  When it rises stop the cooking, stir and start heating again.  If after 3 minutes you still have quite a bit of liquid, at 30 seconds intervals heat then stir watching so it doesn’t spill over.  Do this until you get your desired consistency.  Top with Peanut Butter and Jelly, swirl in and let cool before eating. Enjoy!