Ok, but this oatmeal…
So this blog post is about oatmeal but I’m going to take a minute and talk about gestational diabetes. It’s related, I promise.
I was diagnosed with gestational diabetes at 28 weeks of my pregnancy with our second child. This diagnosis was an instigator for me to do some slight changes to my diet and while I won’t go into much detail in this post, I’ll say this: pregnancy is not my favorite and gestational diabetes didn’t make me fonder of it. Gestational diabetes in my life goes a little like this: cut the sugars, cut the major carbs, veggies are freebies and its a good thing that I mostly like trailmix. I miss chocolate, cookies, and pasta so much right now…
BUT.
The silver lining of this particular bump in the pregnancy road looks like, smells like, tastes like oatmeal. I know, I know. I’m probably late to the oatmeal scene somehow, but humor me ok? It’s worth it.
The basic recipe for this oatmeal was suggested as a gestational diabetes approved breakfast food that would keep sugars low and be fairly filling. I wish I could give accurate credit to the person who came up with this, but I don’t know who it was… or maybe this is nothing revolutionary and everyone has been doing this or something similar for a WHILE and catch up, Liesel! Whatever the case, I’m just glad I know about this hearty little meal and I can’t resist sharing it with you guys too.
Ok, enough talking. Let’s get to it!
Oatmeal Mash Recipe
1/4 cup of minute oats
1/2 cup of water
2-ish Tbsp chia seeds (or sesame seeds)
1 heaping Tbsp of peanut butter
A handful of blueberries
Microwave the oats + water for a minute and a half.
Add the other things on top.
Mix together.
Eat.
That’s it! And it’s delicious!
The original recipe I based this off of suggested raisins, but raisins are a NO from me. I had blueberries in the fridge so I decided to try those instead. Worth it. Maybe other things could be substituted as well? Raspberries? Strawberries? Bananas? A combination of fruit? Hmmm…
Try this out, guys. It’s so YUM!
PS: So the presentation is less than pretty, but your tastebuds will only care about how good it tastes. Trust me.
PPS: For you observant individuals out there, YES these are different bowls... I eat this for breakfast at least 4 times a week…