Breakfast - Easy Oats and Yogurt

Breakfast, breakfast, breakfast. Like it. Love it. Gotta have it. My new favorite fix-n-go breakfast is so easy, so filling, and so full of possibilities! Here's what it might look like:

Yogurt'n'Oats

• 1/2 Cup-ish of organic yogurt
• 1/4 - 1/2 C organic regular oats
• Flaxseeds
• Spoonful of organic peanut butter
• Organic raisins
• Drizzle of local honey

This one had some frozen organic blueberries, too!

Seriously, I cannot rave enough about this bowl of yum-o. Yes, I am typically running late in the morning. I do the best I can, but when a little voice says "I need Momma", who wouldn't snuggle in a bit longer with a toasty warm toddler? I can toss this or that or those into a bowl, snap a lid on it, and by the time I get to work, the oats have softened perfectly and all is well. I do recommend Wallaby Organic yogurt - it's quite a bit runnier than some other brands, but the extra liquid is a perfect match for the uncooked oats. I haven't tried making it the night before but am thinking that might eliminate one more step from the morning craze.

As long as I have your ear... how about a few A & E snippets???

• As we're walking through the store passing valentine shirts and frilly tutus, Abby says "Gran, you think this cute?" and "So cute!" (to herself) and "Momma, you think this cute?"
• While riding in the car and trying to read Frosty the Snowman aloud (for the 675th time this winter), Elise says to Abby "Shhhhh... Abby, be quiet. I busy trying to read".
• Elise spelling her name: "E-L-S-E"
• Abby spelling her name: "A-B-B-B-B-B-Y"
• After being told that we'd drive somewhere and see cows, the trip from Olathe to Lawrence went something like this: "I WANT SEE COWS!"... "I WANT SEE COWS!"... "I WANT SEE COWS!"
• And after detouring off the highway in search of a cow, which was found, Abby says "I like big brown daddy cow eating hay" and Elise says "I want see more cows!"

And who doesn't love a good ol' self-portrait? Ahhhh... snow days. How I love you...

Apple cinnamon oatmeal

It's fall! It's fall! It's fall! The long sleeves and long pants jammies are on. The windows are open and it gets chilly at night. As you saw on a previous post, the s'mores are being eaten.  And hot breakfasts really do taste good! Don't get me wrong, we eat porridge (yes, Zach, we call it porridge) all year-round. I love how Elise says "porr-gie". But this time of year, that hot breakfast on a chilly morning really does a body good.  This morning I concocted a pot of Apple Cinnamon Oatmeal:

• 2 organic apples (peeled and chunked)
• Juice from 1/2 lemon
• 1 tsp. cinnamon
• 1 cup water
• 2 T. agave nectar

Put above ingredients into blender and puree. Combine pureed apple mixture with 1 C. milk (2 cups liquid total); bring to a boil.  Add 1 C. oatmeal and cook as you would typically cook oatmeal. Serve with blueberries.

The other highlight of this fine fall week was a visit from Uncle Zach. On his cross-country journey from the sunshine state to the deep south, we spent a day playing, laughing, eating, and drinking because... well.... that's what we do. We love you, big Z!