Five Simple Oatmeal Recipes

Oatmeal is my breakfast of choice for cool weather months. It cooks up fast, keeps me full and can host a variety of yummy healthy ingredients. 

You could buy they pre-flavored, sugar-laden packets—but where's the fun in that? Save the cash, buy Old Fashioned Oats in bulk and make your own flavors!

Here are a few of my favorites recipes:

• 1/2 cup (40g) Old Fashioned Oats
• 6 ounces water
• 1 packet of sweetener
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/2 cup unsweetened applesauce

Place the oats, water, sweetener and cinnamon in a small pot over medium high heat. Cook and stir until water is absorbed, about 5 minutes.

Mix the cooked oatmeal with applesauce.

Sprinkle a bit more cinnamon on top to taste.

• ½ cup (40g) of quick oats
• 4 ounces boiling water
• ¼ cup non-fat yogurt
• 1 tablespoon honey
• ½ teaspoon raspberry or strawberry extract
• 4-5 strawberries cut in small pieces
• Handful of blueberries

Let the quick oats sit in the boiling water while you prepare everything else (about 3-4 minutes).

Mix the yogurt, honey and extract together. Add in the berries and cooked oatmeal.

• 1 packet of plain instant or quick oats oatmeal (just about an ounce or 28g)
• 2-4 ounces (1/4–1/2 cup) of boiling water, depending on how thick you like it (I used 3 ounces for the batch in the photo)
• 1 teaspoon (15g) brown or raw sugar
• 1/4 cup (60g) of plain canned pumpkin
• 1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
• 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg

Add boiling water to oatmeal and let it sit while you pull out all of the other ingredients (about 2 minutes). If you like it thick like I do, the water should just cover the oats.

Add the pumpkin, sugar, pumpkin pie spice, cinnamon and nutmeg. Stir together. If it's too thick, add a splash of the boiling water. This will bring the temperature back up as well.

• 5 ounces light chocolate milk
• 1/2 cup old fashioned rolled oats (40g)
• 1/2 ounce almonds (I used the chocolate kind (Cocoa Roast Almonds)—My favorite!)

Put the milk and oatmeal in a small pot and bring to a boil while stirring. Lower the heat to a simmer and cook until desired thickness. For me it was about 2-3 minutes.

Pour in bowl and top with almonds.

• 1/2 cup Old Fashioned Oats (40g)
• 6 ounces of water (I like my oatmeal thick, add more if you don't)
• pinch of salt
• 1/4 teaspoon raspberry extract (vanilla or almond would work too)
• 1 tangerine or mandarin orange peeled and separated into sections
• 5 chopped pecans
• Drizzle of honey (~1/4 tablespoon)

Put the oatmeal, water and salt in a small pot. Cook over medium heat until all the water is absorbed. Remove from heat and mix in the raspberry extract.

Put the cooked oatmeal a bowl and top with the tangerine, pecans and honey. It can't get any easier than that!

(All recipes are from GreenLiteBites.com)