Friday, March 5, 2010

Home Sick :(

Hello there.  So last night I could tell that I was becoming more and more congested, then I went to bed and woke up in the middle of the night with a very painful sore throat.  One of those where it feels like it encompasses the whole throat and ear region.  When it was hurting just the same when I woke up this morning I thought I'd better call off sick today.  I went back to sleep for about 4 hours!  

So my breakfast today was at the time I usually eat lunch on most days.  I read Kath Eats Real Food regularly and she always talks about her whipped banana oats so I decided to make that today.  They were really great! Basically, I just broke the banana into a couple pieces and put it in bowl and hit it with the hand mixer until it was smooth (well actually I left a couple lumps- I'm very afraid of overmixing things and making them too thin).  I made stovetop oats today, as opposed to microwave oats, and about halfway through the 4-5 min of oats cooking time, I stirred in the banana.   

Here they are: 

In the bowl: 
  • 1/2 cup oats, skim milk, and water
  • 1 spoonful of ground flax (these are heaping and my guess would be close to 2 T)
  • 1 whipped banana
  • 1 spoonful of PB stirred in at the end
  • topped with a small handful of crumbled Kashi Cinnamon Harvest Shredded Wheat
I really like my oats this morning, not that I don't every other day :)  Maybe it's in my head, but I think the whipped banana adds more of a "baked good" taste, perhaps because by whipping it is really breaking down the sugars before mixing it in.  I'll definitely be whipping my bananas more often for oatmeal! 

I also tried a new peanut butter that I'm really liking.

 It's Wild Harvest Natural Peanut Butter, which is the generic natural brand at Jewel.  I chose it because it was the cheapest brand on the shelf and I loved the ingredient list: organic dry roasted peanuts. I can't remember the price and can't find the receipt, but I want to say it was $1.99.  It was not more than $2! I'll go look next time I'm at the store.  

Well I'm going to just rest the rest of the day! 

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