Go ahead, have dessert for breakfast.
Healthy, tasty, nutritious, plant-strong dessert oatmeal! Oatmeal is a wonderful part of any plant-strong diet. It helps with weight loss, cholesterol and helps you to stay full longer. Sometimes people make the mistake of including more calorically dense foods with their oatmeal, but there is no need to do that! Oatmeal is very satisfying, and can be the base of some spectacular creations.
Here are some of our favorite dessert oatmeal combinations:
Key-Lime Pie Oatmeal
1 cup Oatmeal (cooked, any kind you like)
Splash of non-dairy milk
1 tsp coconut extract
2 tsp lime juice
1 tsp maple syrup (optional)
1 tsp ground flax or chia seeds
Pina Colada Oatmeal
1 cup cooked oatmeal
1 tsp coconut extract
1/4 cup pineapple chunks
1 tsp ground flax or chia seeds
Cherry-Chocolate Oatmeal
1 cup cooked oatmeal
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 tsp cocoa powder
1/2 cup pitted cherries
1 tsp ground flax or chia seeds
Banana-Walnut Oatmeal
1 cup oatmeal
1 banana sliced
a sprinkle of walnuts
1 tsp almond extract
1 tsp maple syrup (optional)
Orange-Cream-sickle Oatmeal
1 cup oatmeal
1 orange peeled and sliced * save a couple of slices and squeeze the juice into the bowl of oatmeal.
1 tsp vanilla extract
splash of almond milk (or other non-dairy milk)
1 tsp ground flax or chia seeds
Blueberry-Muffin Oatmeal
1 cup oats
1/2 cup blueberries
1 tsp ground flax seed
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 tsp maple syrup (optional)
Grape Oatmeal (Ann Esselstyn’s favorite!)
1 cup oatmeal
1/2 cup grapes, sliced in half
1 tsp chia seeds
Peaches and Cream Oatmeal
1 cup oatmeal
a few splashes of almond milk
1 tsp vanilla
1 peach, slices
1 tsp ground flax or chia seeds
What do you love putting in your oatmeal?
