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| Oatmeal Bars |
Who doesn’t like a sweet
warm bowl of oatmeal on a cold morning?
It fills you up, warms you from the inside out and is usually a nutritionally sound
option (so long as you don’t add a lot of additional sugar). A favorite sweetener in our house is mashed
up bananas, or frozen berries, mixed into cooked oatmeal and topped with a
little cinnamon and chopped walnuts.
Unfortunately the most nutrient dense oatmeal choices are the ones that
take the longest to prepare (steel cut) and sometimes trying to cook even
regular oats quickly in the morning doesn’t turn out so well. And although I have tried the trick of par
boiling oats the night before, I also find that cumbersome, and to be honest,
oatmeal is always best when freshly cooked.
One simple solution? Oatmeal bars
and cookies made to go!! You can prepare
the dry mixture the day before, although these recipes literally take minutes
to throw together, and then bake them quickly in the morning. I even think they taste good the next day,
and the day after that, so long as they are stored tightly in the fridge and reheated
a bit before eating. The ingredients are interchangeable depending on what types of dried fruits and nuts you prefer or have on hand. The following are some of my favorites... and they are literally as healthy as a bowl of oatmeal... on the go!!
Happy Breakfast Baking!!
