Food Friday: Quick and Easy Breakfast

This really is a quick and easy breakfast.  It may seem slightly weird at first but it takes perhaps two days to get into it.

Jane (and Ann) Esselstyn have a YouTube channel with many healthy plant-based recipes.  I really enjoy watching them prepare food that I am confident will help heal my wretched body.  Well, not wretched, really, but the body I have not taken good care of for almost 70 years.

They have had several videos on oatmeal.  We have made some of those recipes.  Now we just use this quick and easy variation on their recipe.

This is what I do, and Dear One buys into it, too! 

Out comes the bowl.  Into it goes a big handful of dry old-fashioned rolled oats.  Next a few shedded mini wheats (NOT the sugary ones for me.  I cannot saw the same for everyone in the family...!) and a big spoonful of Grapenuts.  One small banana is chopped, or half a large banana, and thrown on top with a big handful of fresh blueberries...or frozen ones if we have no fresh ones.  Pour on unsweetened plant milk, stir and eat.  This took perhaps five minutes to prepare.

Yesterday I remembered I wanted to put on some cinnamon and flax meal.  The flax meal was readily at hand but the cinnamon was not...SO I put in some quickly visible homemade pumpkin pie spice.  NOT A BRILLIANT IDEA!!!  It made it very difficult to eat this otherwise healthy quick and easy breakfast.  I did manage to choke it down, but never again!  I think it was the cloves that made it so difficult to eat.