Top o’ the mornin’ to ya!

Good morning guys! Man, it’s early here (6:20am) but I’ve already cooked up a great breakfast (which I will share…) and I’m getting ready for yet another day of school. I’m homeschooled, so I can start and finish whenever I want to really. Of course, I’m NOT a slacker, so I like to start as soon as I’m done with breakfast so that I can have the rest of my day work-free for the most part.

Today I decided to make *drum roll*  – CARROT CAKE OATS!

I was so excited to make these since I had already seen Mashed and Kath make them before and I loved the idea of carrot cake in a bowl… only much healthier. Heheh. I brought a picture too. =)

Kate’s Carrot Cake Oats

• 1/2 cup skim milk + 1/2 cup water
• 1/2 cup rolled oats
• 1/4 cup wheat bran (added for bulk and fiber)
• 2 tbsp milled flaxseed
• 1/2 tsp cinnamon
• About 3-4 tbsp shredded carrot
• 20g banana (maybe 1/4 of a medium?)
• 1 tbsp TJ’s “raw” almond butter
• 2 tbsp TJ’s Greek yogurt + 1/8 tsp vanilla (the “icing on the cake”)
• 1 tsp nice, plump raisins

Dee-lish! It was great to have something new today. I’ve been trying to do that a lot more latley, and writing the cookbook has helped since it’s sort of forced me to test out and think up new dishes. I don’t know if it was ED who was getting me into the food rut of “eating the same thing every day” or not, but it’s definatley more fun when you switch things up! It’s certainly a lot more fun to blog about too. I don’t see how some people can post the exact same picture of a bowl of oats every day – it’s just more exciting to make something different or at least have a “themed oats” day like this one.

Anyway, in a few hours there’s a good gym potential for me and my mom. We just joined our local YMCA and have been going almost every day since.  Well, we’ll either go there or I’ll use my treadmill at home. After about a 3-4 month break, I’ve gotten back into running and I LOVE it.  I think sometime I might try out the stair master or elliptical too though. I’ll update you guys on this later today and let you know how it goes!

See yall’ at lunch! Hopefully there will be some yummy recipe I can post to go along with it!

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