5 things:
1. Make a bowlful of old-fashioned oats: maybe 1/2 cup of oats, and a generous cup of water....I don't measure oatmeal anymore. The real recipe for two cups of cooked oatmeal is 1 cup of oats and 2 cups of water, so one bowlful is half of that.
2. I put the oats into a saucepan, add cold water (it turns out creamier), then bring it to a boil, simmering and stirring until it looks done. Turn off the heat.
3. Stir in 1 tablespoon of peanut butter--for me, this is always organic and creamy, not crunchy, but to each her own.
4. Add 1 teaspoon of jelly--and here's the chance for me to use up the jelly that's hardly enough to serve on the table for guests but too good to throw out, so it sits in the fridge. This morning i used
the last spoonful of gooseberry jelly from El's Kitchen in Winterport, ME. Yowzah!!
5. I wish I had made a full recipe, but maybe this is built-in portion control. So....from the oatmeal part I get 3 grams of fat, .05g of which is saturated; NO SODIUM!!; 5 grams of dietary fiber; and 6 grams of protein. From the peanut butter part, I got 4 grams of saturated fat, 62.5mg of sodium; 0g cholesterol; 1g sugar; and 4g of protein. Not so bad, particularly compared with my usual breakfast these days of 2 fried eggs on toast with lots of butter.
No comments:
Post a Comment