Food Friday: Fresh Fruit and Dry Oatmeal. Amazingly Good!

 One of my favorite breakfasts is a bowl of dry oatmeal with a few fresh blueberries and some sliced fresh grapes. It sounds nasty but is really good.  Refreshing, and good for the body.  It is said to assist in cleaning cholesterol from the body. Sadly, I have not eaten it enough times in a row to verify.  If I start again today, and eat it every day until my next blood work,  then I will be able to actually verify.  I think.

Here is a small bowl of oatmeals, green grapes, and blueberries.  Good stuff.  Even Dear One eats it but he prefers to add milk...

Monday Again!

 Things have been slumping along lately but now seem to be looking up.  Resolving to eat more oatmeal has been a plus.

This is dry oatmeal (1-minute oatmeal instead of 5-minute oatmeal since I was not paying attention when I picked it up at the store...) with chopped seedless grapes.  You would not think it was any good, but it really is.  It is purported to improve blood lipids/cholesterol plus blood sugar.  I don't know about the lipids since I have not had lab work recently but it does seem to improve blood sugar.

Munchie Monday: Cereal Mixture

 Oatmeal has become a constant in our diet/breakfast.  I have already talked about eating dry oatmeal with chopped grapes mixed in.  The other week we did not have any grapes so I put oatmeal in the bottom of the bowl then dumped in a small amount of the mixed lightly sugared cereals that Dear One favors.  With a little homemade almond milk on top, it was pretty good.

Today I did the same but added some fresh from the field strawberries.  Quick. Easy. Tasty!

This is one of those meals where I could say, "Try it.  You will like it!"  Some things lately I have not been so happy with but this is definitely healthier than many cereals and tastes so good.

Food Friday: Boring Quick and EASY Breakfast

 Today was more oatmeal.  

1/3 cup dry old-fashioned oatmeal
1/2 cup seedless grapes, chopped very fine (in Ninja Express)
1/4 cup blueberries
1 heaping teaspoon Inulin (a pre-biotic that is very low glycemic and quite sweet, if you like that kind of thing...Dear One does)

Mix all these together, except the Inulin which you sprinkle on top.  Dear One pours milk over the cereal. I eat it dry.  It is not that dry since the grapes are pretty well ground up!

Yummy.  Good for you. Quick and easy.

Quick Baked Banana Bites

 Last week I was watching an interview on Chef AJ's channel on YouTube.  She often has another chef on the interview show.   This recipe came from Vicki Brett-Gagh. Vicki gave us three different recipes which were virtually the same.

Monkey Bites from Chef AJ’s interview with VICKI BRETT-GACH

3 ripe bananas

1/3 cup almond butter ( We had almonds so I made the butter in our food processor.  It took FOREVER but turned out really good.)

1/4 cup pitted dates

1 tsp. Vanilla

1 teaspoon cinnamon

3/4 cup rolled oats

2 teaspoons baking powder

Set oven preheating at 350 degrees F.  Get out a silicon mini cupcake cups pan.

Mix all ingredients well in food processor, scraping down the sides a couple of times, then portion into mini silicon cupcake cups. This works best with a portion scoop but a spoon will work.

 Bake 14 minutes at 350 degrees F.  Let cool ten minutes on a cooling rack then remove bites from pan by pushing up from the bottom.

There were 24 when I pulled them out of the oven.  This occurred just before Dear One returned from giving blood.  He has given many gallons of blood by this time, and continues every two months to give another pint.

Before I left to go swimming, I ate two of these bites.  You will notice that I put a chocolate wafer on top (when they were hot, thinking they would melt.  They did not.  A purist would not have put those wafers on top...), thinking Dear One would be more drawn to them with chocolate.  Well, you see there were only sixteen left when I came home from swimming, so I guess they must have been okay! 

These really are bites,  just pop them into the mouth.  They are pretty good.

Banana Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Pancakes

How can you go wrong with pancakes when some of the ingredients include bananas, oatmeal, and dark chocolate chips?  Well, think again!  Dear One said, and I quote, "You can scratch that recipe from our repertoire!"  Well, he was pretty much correct.


Banana Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Pancakes

2 ripe bananas
3/4 cup unsweetened almond milk
1 cup oat flour (made by blending 1 cup old-fashioned rolled oats into flour)
1/2 cup rolled oats
3/4 teaspoon baking powder
Pinch salt
1/4 cup dark chocolate chips


In a medium bowl mash the bananas with a fork then stir in the milk.  In another bowl stir together everything else except the chocolate chips.  Stir the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients then add the chocolate chips and stir well.

Using a portion scoop, scoop 1/2 cup "batter" onto a greased griddle and let cook for at least 2-3 minutes then flip and cook another 2-3 minutes on the second side.

That is how I did it.  This is what they looked like:

• It looks rather nasty but it really did taste pretty good.  At least, to me they tasted good.  Dear One decided I could finish his.  He put some french fries in the air fryer for his main breakfast!  No problem.

So I put the leftovers into the refrigerator.  The next day I ate a piece.  It was really good the next day!  Sort of like chocolate bananas.  

When I looked at the recipe later to see if I could figure out what went wrong, I realized I had put 3/4 cup of chocolate chips in the batter instead of 1/4 cup.  Also, since the batter  was so thick, I think I would add more almond milk another time.  If there is another time...

Munchie Monday: Quick and Easy "Ann's Breakfast" Oats

Not too long ago I think I mentioned this breakfast but here is a photo.  Probably I told you that I learned of it in Jane and Ann Essetstyn's YouTube channel one day but these oats are not in this particular oat video.  Another one of their oat YouTube videos is fabulous with Essy teaching us the value of oatmeal.  Oats are really important to our health.  I eat them most mornings.  I am thinking of eating them for supper, too, especially on days when I am worn to a frazzle.  So quick and easy.

Quick and Easy Oatmeal

This is 1/4 cup dry old-fashioned rolled oats, 1 Tablespoon ground flax seed, 2-3 Tablespoons Grapenuts, and sliced grapes.  Probably 10-15 grapes.  That was a lot of grapes.  Plus a few blueberries.  Next time I will put in fewer grapes.

After stirring this up in great shape, I took a bite.  It was really good.  Not at all objectionable.  Dear One still likes almond milk on his rolled oats.  He does not eat the rolled oats dry!  It took about two bites to get used to the "dry" oatmeal.  So good.  I bet it would be even better if I added ground cinnamon...!

Munchie Monday: Oatmeal Waffle Reprise

Today I was up early, finished my morning devotions and got caught up in YouTube (Ann and Jane Esselstyn, this time) and found something different for breakfast.

Quick and Easy Oatmeal Waffles, nothing bad-for-you in them

1 ripe banana
1 cup oatmeal
2 Tablespoon ground flax seed meal
1/2 cup water

Put the banana in a food processor and process until pretty smooth.  Add remaining ingredients and blend until the oatmeal is not longer flakes.  Scrape down sides several times.

Cook about 8 minutes in a waffle iron, or until your waffle iron thinks they are cooked.  This made one Belgian waffle maker of waffles.  There was no overflow with this batter.  The waffles were pretty darn good.  Dear One thought they were extra sturdy but that did not stop him from eating three of them!

We will have these again.  Probably tomorrow!

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.

Munchie Monday: Apple Cider Oatmeal!

We seem to have two half-gallons of apple cider in the refrigerator.  Before the cider turns hard I decided to use up some of it.

This was an easy cooked oatmeal which we had for breakfast yesterday.  Dear One really loved it! That made me happy.

In a three-quart sauce pan, place 2 cups apple cider, 1 cup uncooked old-fashioned oatmeal, 1/2 cup golden raisins, 1/2 cup pumpkin seeds, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, and 1/4 teaspoon salt.

Stir over medium heat until the cereal is cooked as much as you like. I cooked it almost five minutes.

Serve in bowls with a few chopped walnuts on top.

Dear One asked if I could duplicate the recipe.  Well, yes. I can.  I just wrote it down so I could do that!  And thought I would share with family and friends here on the blog.  I hope you like it, too.

Munchie Monday: Dr. Praeger Veggie Burger and Oatmeal Pancake Bun

Well, doesn't this sound interesting!  In the interests of getting away from bread which has a bad effect on our scales, and probably our inwards as well, I thought of using #Life is NOYOKE's oatmeal pancakes for buns for a Dr. Praeger veggie burger.

This is what we had for lunch this weekend!  It was not bad.  Dear One did say that if he had a choice, he likes hamburger buns...but then, he is not a very adventuresome eater!

He did manage to choke down two of them, though!  I thought that was pretty good.

You can find the recipe for the oatmeal pancakes here.

The only things I did differently were:

1. I left out the dried dates because I did not want this to be sweet, and

2. Our aquafaba had been in the refrigerator a little too long so I mixed 1 Tablespoon of ground flax seed with 4 Tablespoons of water and let it sit while I put the other ingredients into the blender jar. That is more water than you usually use to make a "flax egg" but I wanted the batter to be a little wetter than Lenny's recipe turns out.

This worked great.

Food Friday: Homemade Oat Milk

Because all the smart plant foods people are adamant about how dangerous dairy products are for our longterm health, they suggest using plant milks when we want a white liquid for a recipe or to drink. 

Recently I saw a YouTube video, well, quite a few, actually, but one that seemed to make sense, on how to make Oat Milk, just like Oatly...which is not something I have tried.  And, after this fiasco, don't think I will try it.

To make this oat milk, put 1 cup old-fashioned oatmeal and 3 cups water in your blender.  I think there was also a quarter cup of raw cashews to help with separation. Blend on HIGH SPEED for 20 seconds.  No more, or it will turn slimy according to all reports.

Well, I did just as this YouTuber directed: blended, filtered, drank.  I had found some "flour sack" dish towels at Walmart which seemed like they would be sturdier for the filtering process than cheesecloth or a nut bag.  I used a clean flour sack and filtered/strained the solids out of the oat milk.

The next thing I did was make some "chocolate oat milk" which was supposedly "fabulous".  The YouTuber called for 2 cups milk, 1/4 teaspoon Hershey's cocoa, and one pitted medjool date.  I ask you...!!!

Well, 1/4 teaspoon of cocoa was NOT going to make chocolate milk "just like Nestle's Quik" which this woman said it would...so I put in a heaping teaspoon.  I did put in just one date for the sweetening.  And blended the tar out of it hoping that I could blend the date to bits and not have to strain again.

So the results:  I gave Dear One a glass of chocolate oat milk.  One swallow and he put the cup down.  He thought it was a mean bait and switch.  It looked just like chocolate milk but it just was not.  AND if you look at the jar of plain oat milk, you see that the milk itself is rather slimy looking...not just the leftover oat bits.

You can see that the milk separated some.  The lighting makes the milk look rather brown. It isn't.  It really is white and looks like milk, if it is shaken up.

My assessment:  do not spend one moment thinking about making this stuff.  Too bad since it seemed like a good idea.

Easy Oatmeal Pancakes in the Blender

Easy Oatmeal Pancakes in a Blender

#LifeIsNOYOKE has a pretty good oatmeal pancake recipe.    This is just one of many good recipes Lenny and Shalva have on their channel.

Put all ingredients in a blender jar and blend them up.

1 1/2 cups oatmeal (I used old-fashioned)
1 ripe banana
1/2 cup almond milk
1/4 cup aquafaba (this is the liquid you get when you drain a can of chick peas.  It has lots of interesting uses so don't throw it away.  Just put it in a glass jar in the refrigerator.)
1 pitted date
1/4 teaspoon baking soda

Heat a heavy skillet over medium heat. I used our cast iron skillet.  When the pan is hot, give it a quick spray of vegetable oil.  Did I say to make sure the pan is HOT?  You just do not have a good result with pancakes unless the pan in hot when you put in the batter. At least, that is my experience.

When hot, and lightly misted with oil, put pancake batter on the pan in 1/4 cup blobs.   Spread it out a bit with a spoon and let it cook until there are little bubbles and the bottom seems to be browning.

Flip over and let cook another minute or two.  The next flip is onto your plate.

Serve with your favorite topping.  We used maple syrup one day but raspberry syrup the first time because we did not at that point have maple syrup. Pancakes are really better with actual from-maple-trees maple syrup.

We will make these again.  Especially until we get some more sourdough made. 

We had an accident with a glass that shattered on the counter and (apparently!) some of the dust got into the lightly covered sourdough container.  When I made another batch of this time REALLY GOOD sourdough bread/rolls (I let them rise 7 1/2 hours), we each found a little bit of grit in them.  That made me think it was glass shards so we dumped the sourdough and the remaining rolls just in case.  The thought of chewing glass rather turned my stomach.  If such a thing is possible.

Probably we will start more sourdough in a day or two.  The rolls seemed to have a good effect on blood sugar.  Maybe there really is something to the suggestion that sprouted wheat flour bread is better for us.  And not that hard to do.

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Munchie Monday: No-Bake Chocolate Peanut Butter Bars

We have an Emergency Preparedness Fair coming up next week.  In Relief Society we were asked to donate cookies.  Since I am lazy I wanted to make bar cookies.  I asked if we could.  No problem!

 Tonight we had a potluck to get some of the final things together for the Fair.  I made these bars as a trial run.  They were well-received.

Sarah Kozowski at Sugar Apron created these bars.  She has other recipes!

No Bake Chocolate Oatmeal Bars

1 cup butter

1/2 cup brown sugar, packed

1 teaspoon  vanilla extract

3 cups rolled oats

1 cup chocolate chips

1/2 cup peanut butter

Line an 8 or 9 inch square baking pan with parchment paper and set aside.  Use a 9 by 13 pan if you want thinner bars.

Melt butter and brown sugar in a large saucepan over medium heat.  When the butter has melted and the sugar has dissolved stir in the vanilla and the oatmeal.  Cook over low heat 3-4 minutes or until the ingredients are well blended.

Pour half  of the oat mixture into the prepared baking pan.  Spread the mixture evenly and press down.

Melt the chocolate chips and the peanut butter in a small microwave-safe bowl for about 1 minute, or 1 1/2 minutes until you can stir them to a lovely smoothness.

Pour the chocolate mixture over the pan, reserving about 1/4 cup to drizzle over the top.

Sprinkle on the remaining half to the oatmeal mixture and tamp down with the back of a spoon.  Drizzle the remainder of the chocolate over the top.

Refrigerate 2-3 hours or overnight.

Bring to room temperature before cutting into bars.

This is Sarah's recipe, more or less the way she recorded it.

What I did differently:  I used a quarter sheet pan (more or less 9 by 13) with a Silpat liner.  After the bars had chilled for 5-6 hours, I put them on the cutting board and with the stainless dough scraper I went around the edges of the pan. I was able to then pull them out of the pan and put them naked on the nice Boos cutting board where, after they had set out for about ten minutes, I cut them into squares...about 24 pieces.  I used dark chocolate mini-chocolate chips that were just dying to be used up.  They were left over from the hot chocolate bar at the Christmas Zone Conference last year, so you know they wanted to be used up!

Food Friday: Quick and Easy Best Hot Oatmeal Ever

Sometimes when you are researching something you need to know, other things catch your eye that you should really stop everything and review.  This is such a case.

This really is Quick and Easy!  And so good for you.  And it even tastes good.  This morning I was looking at ways to improve health through food.  Diet-food-health-they should go together, right?  So that is what I was researching.  Yet again trying to make changes for the better. I saw many testimonials by medical scientists indicating that if we just added oatmeal to our diets every day so many health improvements would take place.  Okay. I believe it.  And there, just below all those other presentations was an advertisement for the best oatmeal ever.  Maybe yes, maybe no, but it was worth trying.

This is the trick that makes this so good:  find a 2-cup storage container that has a lid. Add all the ingredients to it.  Put on the cover and shake then set aside until you want to use it...at home, in the office, on the job, in an airplane--any place you can get boiling water.


The mixture:

1/2 cup old-fashioned rolled oats
a handful of dried fruit like raisins, cranberries, whatever you like
1 Tablespoon ground flax meal or chia seeds
1 Tablespoon or less  brown sugar
1-2 Tablespoons chopped nuts or seeds (more if you are not using the flax or chia)
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon

Put on the cover and shake well.

Boil water.  Fifteen to twenty minutes before you want to eat the oatmeal pour the hot water over it.  I put about 1 cup onto the oatmeal, covered tightly, then, holding the cover on with both hands, gave it a shake or two then set on the table with a spoon so we could eat it when we were ready.

This was our first bowl.  It was good.  We did not pour on any milk and it was still lovely.

Works like a charm!  So good.  And if a bowl of oatmeal can repair a fatty liver, diabetes, bad sleep, what have you, then it is an easy pill to swallow.

Munchie Monday: Overnight Raspberry Chia Oatmeal

Here is another quick and easy breakfast!

In a one-cup widemouth jar place,

1/4 cup old fashioned oatmeal flakes
1 Tablespoon raspberry preserves
1 Tablespoon chia seeds
2/3 cup unsweetened almond milk


Stir well.  Add up to 10 fresh raspberries or as many as you can get into the jar.  Cover and put into the refrigerator overnight.  If you cannot get the raspberries in, just leave them out until morning when you give the cereal a stir, pour into a bowl, and top with raspberries.

Really good!

Munchie Monday: Old-Fashioned Oatmeal in the Microwave

A new anything is a good time to make improvements in one's life:  a new year, a new month, a new week, a new day, a new job, anything is a good excuse to get it together.

In any case, I decided to get more serious about eating good food.  Well, just about EVERYTHING I eat is good,  just not necessarily  good FOR me!  So today, since I had started a stove-top cleaning project and could not use that triple apple oatmeal cake that I told you about for cereal that I have in the freezer waiting for just such a morning as this, I decided to try oatmeal in the microwave.

This is what I did:

1. In a very large glass bowl I put 2 cups unsweetened almond milk, 1 cup old-fashioned rolled oats, and a pinch of salt. I stirred it, put on the plastic keep-the-microwave-clean cover that I discovered here in Oregon (why aren't there any of these covers in New England?  Or why did I not see them before?  They are a wonderful gadget that was in the apartment when we arrived.  I immediately got a new one and put it in my closet to wait until we get home. I hope I don't find too many other things to store until we go home or we will have to trade in our car for a truck.  Not a bad idea, actually...!)

2. Let the microwave cook for 2 minutes, then stirred. Nowhere near ready.

3.  Let cook for 2 more minutes.  Stirred.  Added 1/2 cup raisins and stirred again.

4.  Let cook for 2 more minutes.  Stirred. STILL not ready.

5.  Let cook for 2 MORE minutes.  FINALLY it was ready.

After stirring well, I put 1 cup or a tad more into each of two bowls.  I broke up about 2 Tablespoons walnuts onto the top of the cereal the added 1 Tablespoon ground flax seed.  At this point I got out the  jar of cinnamon honey paste I made last week. I put a small teaspoon on mine and stirred it it.  I won't say how much Dear One stirred into his bowl!  But it was enough.

This was really good.  If you have a higher-grade microwave, it probably won't take your oatmeal 8 minutes to cook.  Also if you are only making one serving, it won't take as long, but I would check every 2 minutes.

Food Friday: Homemade Veggie Burger Sandwich!

We eat veggie burgers around here.  I am still trying to make one that works as far as flavor, texture, ease of construction, and enjoyment.

This is the one I made this week.

This picture was an open-faced sandwich that I had to start eating with a fork.  It was delicious!  The layers were: toasted one hundred percent whole wheat bread, smear of Homemade Balsamic Mayonnaise, one Roma tomato sliced sort of thin, slice of sweet onion, Homemade Veggie Burger, sauerkraut on top then sprinkled with Montreal Steak Seasoning.  It was so good and stuck with me for hours.

Here is how I made the veggie burger.  I am sorry I don't have a really specific recipe just the method, but the method worked.

We had some leftover squash soup, some leftover rice glop (my term for rice and other ingredients that have become a more or less solid mass since I failed to stop the cooking in time), some leftover cooked pinto beans.

Started heating our cast iron skillet on the stove over medium heat then made the veggie burger mixture.

In a large bowl I placed the very flavorful squash soup--about 2 cups of it, 1 1/2 cups of the cooked rice, and 2 cups of cooked pinto beans. I used a potato masher to smush them up until I was satisfied with the texture.  Some of the beans were still mostly whole.  At this point I added about 3 Tablespoons of leftover thick pizza sauce, about a teaspoon of Montreal Steak Seasoning, and a good big glug of Worcestershire sauce. Then I threw in about 2 cups of old-fashioned rolled oats. I mixed these all together very well.

By this time the cast iron frying pan was hot so I added a Tablespoon of coconut oil and let it melt.  Using a 1/2 cup portion scoop, I scooped four mounds of the veggie burger mixture into the pan, pushing down on each mound with the back of the scoop to make a nice neat round burger about one-half inch thick.  I let them cook, still over medium heat, for 2-3 minutes or until I thought they were solid on the bottom. I then flipped them, cooked them longer on the second side then served to Dear One along with French fries. I had some mashed potatoes and salad with mine.

The upshot:  these taste really good.  When they came off the frying pan they were too soft for my Dear One's palate but he did think they tasted good.  This was for lunch.  At supper time I got the two leftover ones out of the refrigerator and found that they had become much more firm. Yay!  When I warmed up one for my own supper (Dear One did not want a repeat...usual story there...) it softened up again but still worked as you can see on the sandwich photo.

There was enough of the "batter" to make four more veggie burgers the next day using a smaller scoop, which was quite large enough.  I felt justified in eating two of them!  After all, what could be wrong with beans, rice, oatmeal, and squash?!

This is still not the perfect veggie burger (especially since I don't have an accurate list of all the ingredients in all the components) but is on the way to getting there. Something about the oatmeal firms them up, I think.

Munchie Monday: Meatless Loaf

A few days ago Jill McKeever had a recipe video on YouTube that I just HAD to try. I always liked meatloaf when my mother made it and when my mother-in-law made it.  I made it a few times, too, and liked it.  Since trying to eat a more plant-based diet, I thought I would try this one.

This one tasted fine to me.  Jill says it is even better the next day because it becomes more solid as opposed to rather soft when you eat it hot out of the oven and is thus great on sandwiches. I am looking forward to a meatloaf sandwich for breakfast...!

Even the gravy tasted wonderful on the real mashed potatoes.

Sadly, this meal did NOT sell well at our house.  I probably will not make it again unless Dear One is away for a few days...something I do not anticipate happening any time soon.  Well, even then, I probably won't make it unless a freezer trial comes out well.

The next day was no more successful than the first time.  It still tasted good but the texture was too soft for me.  Sad. I wanted it to work.  Maybe it is time to make a nut loaf...

Munchie Monday: A Good Breakfast

In an effort to have healthier breakfasts, we have started having oatmeal sometimes.  Well, at least once a week.  To make this humble breakfast not only palatable, but tasty we make some additions.

For the two of us I use:

1/2 cup old-fashioned rolled oats (though I am sure 1-minutes oatmeal would work)
1 apple grated on a box grater, peels and all (except the hard stuff in the middle of the apple)
1/2 cup blueberries
2 Tablespoons ground flax seed (flax seed meal)
1/4 cup chopped walnuts
Almond milk or coconut milk, even soy milk

Place 1 cup water in a small saucepan.  Stir in the oatmeal and grated apple and bring to a boil, stirring constantly. I use a long-handled wooden spoon so as not to get singed.  When that has come to the boil, lower the heat and simmer 2-3 minutes or until the oatmeal and apple are cooked.  Stir in the blueberries, flax meal, and walnuts.  Serve in two bowls and cover with your favorite nut or soy milk.  I always use unsweetened milks.  If you feel sweetener is needed,  mash half a ripe banana and stir in.

This makes a tasty healthy easy and pretty quick breakfast.  I am thinking of trying to make it in the crockpot overnight but would have to make up maybe four times this size batch and then refrigerate or even freeze individual servings.  If I do that, I will update this post to report how it went the second time eating it.  Thinking about the company would will eat it, I have in mind that it might not be an improvement...