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New Flavours!

Happy Friday!

Just want to pass along a couple of kitchen experiments that have gone very well.  Of course I am talking about baked oatmeal, because it's my favourite thing!

First up...Chocolate Peanut Butter Oatmeal!


Start with the basic recipe...(can be found in the 'Pumpkin Pie Oatmeal' post) omit the pumpkin and coconut oil, and I used chocolate protein powder in place of the vanilla protein powder.

Mix all the wet ingredients, and protein powder, plus a scoop of PB2 Chocolate Peanut Butter Powder. (you can find it at www.lowcarbcanada.ca) It's OK if you don't have this...it's still delicious!


Add in the oats, mix, and transer to you greased (PAM or Coconut Oil) ramekin dish.  Now the best part.  A teaspoon of natural peanut butter dolloped right on the top.  Bake 15-17 min at 375.

Add a splash of milk (or not) and enjoy the gooey goodness!!


**Another delicious take on this, is to make the Pumpkin Pie Oatmeal...but instead of pumpkin use unsweetened apple sauce!  I added half of one of those single serving containers. Mmmm...with cinnamon and raisins it's delish!!**

Toby

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