Choco-Berry Baked Oatmeal

I wanted to share this recipe that I have been eating for breakfast since Audrey was born.  It’s quick, delicious, and really nourishing.  The original recipe was from Good (Cheap) Eats, and I doubled it and made a few modifications.

This recipe is really easy to modify to your tastes.  Use flavoured yogurt, almond or other nut milk, different sweeteners, and whatever berries you prefer.  I cut it into 12 portions and freeze it to have breakfast for the week.  It reheats really well!

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Yummy berries!

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PC Greek yogurt – cheap, and delicious

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Costco is the best place to get vanilla

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Dry goods – Oats, sugar, salt, baking powder

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Wet goods – Eggs, milk, oil, yogurt

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Combine with raspberries and chocolate chips

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Bake! It doesn’t come out this green, I’m not sure what happened to this picture.

Ingredients

  • 6 cups old-fashioned oats
  • 1/4 cup brown sugar
  • 4 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1 1/2 cups chocolate chips
  • 2 cups Greek yogurt
  • 1 cup milk
  • 1/4 cup oil
  • 2 teaspoon vanilla
  • 4 eggs
  • 4 cups raspberries
    Instructions
  1. Preheat the oven to 350°.
  2. Grease a 9×13 inch glass baking dish
  3. In a large mixing bowl, combine the oats, sugar, baking powder, chocolate chips, and salt.
  4. In a second mixing bowl, whisk together the Greek yogurt, milk, oil, vanilla, and eggs.
  5. Pour the wet ingredients onto the dry, and add the raspberries.
  6. Fold gently to combine.
  7. Spoon the mixture into the prepared pan.
  8. Bake for 45 minutes or until golden.

Nutritional tidbits

  1. The oats and Greek yogurt provide a good dose of protein
  2. Raspberries are a great source of vitamin C, Folate, and Fibre
  3. Oats are great for nursing moms – they promote milk production

Hoppin’ on the Oatmeal train!

I’ve finally done it!  Yesterday, for the first time I made oatmeal for breakfast.

Oatmeal Picture from Quaker Oats Website – I gobbled mine too quickly to take a picture!

I got the recipe from Kath’s blog, and It was just too easy not to try! I read the recipe as making 2 servings, but maybe I did it wrong, cause there was only enough for 1! This morning I doubled the recipe, and it made enough for me and hubby to share. I added some yummy toppings at the end to make it:

Banana Bread Oats!

Recipe: (Based off of Kath’s basic whipped-banana recipe)
2/3 cup oats
2/3 cup almond milk
2/3 cup water
1/2 banana
splash vanilla

Toppings: spoonful of PB, handful of chocolate chips, and a 1/2 handful of pecan pieces.

These oats are creamy and delicious. One thing I discovered was that yesterday when I ate less oats, I wasn’t hungry for lunch until about 12:30. Today when I ate a full serving, I was super-hungry by about 10:30! What is up with that?

What is your favourite thing to eat for breakfast?  What keeps you full until lunch?  Post your favourite oatmeal toppings, and I will try them out this week!!