These Oatmeal Recipes Are Worth Waking Up For

When it comes to breakfast rankings, oatmeal is pretty much at the bottom of the totem pole. Very few people actually want to eat oatmeal — especially when pancakes and bacon are an option. It’s just boring. But we eat it since it’s good for our health. Lucky for your health and palate, this is one problem you can easily fix with some creative oatmeal recipes. Put a fried egg on your oats and double up on protein. Or add a little bit of dark chocolate to satisfy your sweet tooth (and it’s good for us too). Make it with quinoa to get in your daily dose of protein. Check out the oatmeal recipes below, and never eat a boring bowl again. Click here for some great recipes.

Grain Free, Dairy Free Banana Blueberry Coffee Cake

Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cooking Time 30 minutes – Serves: 4-6

Ingredients:

4 eggs (soy free here)

1/2 cup coconut oil, melted

3 tbsp raw honey

1/2 cup coconut flour, sifted

2 very ripe bananas

1/2 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp sea salt

1/2 tsp cinnamon

1/2 tsp nutmeg

1 cup blueberries

Directions: Preheat the oven to 350. Mix the dry ingredients. Mix the wet ingredients. Combine the two mixtures and stir well. Next carefully fold in the blueberries with a spatula. Pour the the dough into a greased round cake pan and bake for 30-35 minutes.

How the American Diet has Evolved

American Dietary Report Card Shows Yogurt, Oil Consumption Way Up Since 2000. The American diet, as a whole, changes at a glacial pace. Most individuals eat more or less the same thing, week in, week out, adding new staples and retiring old favorites only on very rare occasions. And zooming out to a scale of hundreds of millions, these individual shifts mostly cancel each other out. (One family might stop buying sour cream because they want to cut back on calories the same day that another family starts buying sour cream after tasting Paula Deen’s recipe for spinach-artichoke dip.) But of course, glaciers move — their pace may be slow, but it’s not stasis. Over the course of thousands of years, the movement of glaciers carved out the Great Lakes. And so it is with changes in the American diet. If you step back and look at progress over many years, you see real change. Click here for more information.

Strawberry Chocolate Basil muffins with ‘Food, Fitness, Fresh air’

Sometimes you’ve just gotta take a leap of faith. And sometimes you’ve gotta throw the basil in your strawberry muffin batter. When the results turn out well, then here you are, on Earth, to tell about them. Basil and strawberries are a combination in which I’ve grown quite fond. I know their sweetness and mintiness compliment one another and that I generally enjoy them when they’re hanging out in the same space. Pairing them with chocolate, however, and packaging it all in a muffin was an upshot I couldn’t predict. But as I said, taking chances can be fun, especially in the kitchen. So that’s what I did. I took a chance and threw the basil into the batter. Fortunately, I loved the results. Click here for more delicious recipes!