One of my favorite ways to take care of breakfast for my family is to have it either prepped and ready to go by morning, or to have it completely done by morning. I especially like things like cinnamon rolls that can hang out in the fridge overnight before being put in the oven first thing in the morning, and I love doing oatmeal in my slow cooker during the night as well.

The most important thing to keep in mind when you’re leaving the slow cooker on when you’re sleeping is to make sure there is absolutely nothing around it …read more

During the cooler months I like to spend a bit more time on my kids’ breakfast. That’s not to say they don’t still get the “quicker” breakfasts like cereal or a bagel — especially on a school day — but on the mornings that I know I’ll have a few extra minutes I’ll fire up the oven and pull out a casserole dish.

Thankfully, my kids all like oatmeal, and though they’ll eat it with a little bit of brown sugar and milk, I like to surprise them every so often by adding fruit or baking it, like this baked apple …read more

Weekends always seem to be the perfect time for big breakfasts. Unfortunately, big breakfasts usually include big prep and a lot of time!

One of my favorite new food blog finds, The Bitten Word, has a recipe for overnight oatmeal using steel-cut oats. Something that would usually take from half an hour to 45 minutes to prepare comes out to only 15 minutes of prep time, thanks to some overnight soaking.
Overnight Oatmeal with Almonds and Dried Cranberries
originally from Food & Wine
1 1/2 cups steel-cut oats
6 cups water
1/4 cup chopped salted roasted almonds
1/4 cup dried cranberries
Brown sugar or pure maple syrup, for …read more

You know the saying “you don’t know what you have till it’s gone”? Those words came to mind when I read the latest scientific find studying oatmeal’s benefits in regard to cholesterol. I love oatmeal!!! Being diabetic, I really don’t eat much of it and it has to be the low sugar, low carb stuff, which quite frankly… just isn’t the same. But being that the benefits of cholesterol reduction are proven to be even stronger than when the FDA first approved the correlation back in the 80’s, I am gonna start enjoying my oats again!
The new findings suggest that …read more