Chia-Walnut Oatmeal

I'm still eating oatmeal for breakfast but I keep changing it up. I started with blue apple-nut oatmeal, an oatmeal full of fruit, then I started eating apple cinnamon oats. I guess it just depends what kind of mood I am in the morning, but lately I've been eating my chia-walnut oatmeal with coconut milk.

Somewhere along the lines, I've started trying coconut milk on my oatmeal and now I love it! Using coconut milk has evolved into using SO Delicious Coconut Milk Creamer which I LOVE with only 10 calories per Tbsp. It's a miracle! Creamer, creamer on the wall, who's the healthiest of them all? I vote for SO Delicious Coconut Milk Creamer!

Makes 1 serving

1/2 cup water
1 tsp. cinnamon
1/4 cup oatmeal
1 tsp. chia seeds
2 Tbsp. chopped walnuts

1. Mix water and cinnamon in a small sauce pan.

2. Add oatmeal.

3. Add chia seeds.

4. Add walnuts.

3. Cook for 5 minutes.

After I cook the oatmeal I add some blueberries and a couple Tablespoons of SO Delicious creamer

and then add milk for the rest of it only I'm using Coconut Dream milk enriched with vitamins A, D, B12 and calcium, another delicious winner. Coconut milk is higher in MCTs (medium chain triglycerides) which are more easily absorbed than other types of fat and also high in lauric acid, a type of saturated fat that actually improves your lipid profile by increasing HDL.

I don't like my cereal dry. I like to add a lot of milk to make sure I get at least one serving of calcium for the day and now I can use coconut milk.

And this has been my breakfast for most the winter. Now, I'm about ready to switch to my fruit flavored overnight oats since the weather is getting warmer and I'm starting to feel like a cool, refreshing breakfast instead of a hot cereal. I'm looking so forward to warm weather again! And I'm not the only one around here…

Wake up every morning with a delicious oatmeal breakfast.

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