We love oats.
I love them, my husband really loves them, and our little man is even starting to love them.
Our favorite way to eat oats is in one of their purest forms: Overnight Oats, like these:
If you’ve never tried them, Kath is a great resource for instructions and recipes. We do ours even more simply, though. Just oats and almond milk, soaked overnight, then topped with whatever we have around. Easy peasy!
When using a recipe where the oats are the star of the show, it’s important to start out with the best ones you can find. Our favorites are the certified organic thick rolled whole grain oats from Tropical Traditions.
(Yup, that Tropical Traditions. The company known for their coconut oil also carries oats, and a ton of other products, from whole grain cereals to deodorant!)
As you can see, TT oats have a great, old-fashioned rolled oat texture.
They hold up to the soaking without getting mushy, and they retain a dense, chewy bite. Plus, they’re organic! Tropical Traditions oats are by far the best quality oats we’ve found.
Breakfast is a hard meal for me, since I don’t eat eggs or sausage (and I reserve bacon for only the fudgiest occasions.) Empty carbs are easy to find in the morning, but eating them for breakfast is the quickest way to ruin my day. So I stick with what works: Add some fresh fruit, nut butter and a few shakes of cinnamon or cardamom to a cup of almond-milky oats, and you’ve got a satisfying, breakfast that beats any Rooty Tooty Fresh n’ Fruity or McHeart Attack sandwich.
I love having a big bag of Tropical Traditions oats around for savory recipes, too. I recently used them in my new favorite recipe: Quinoa Burgers. If you haven’t tried these, please, please do. I promise you – they are FAB (and easy!)
If you haven’t checked out Tropical Traditions yet, stop by their website and see all they have to offer, and make sure you don’t miss their impressive recipe page (it features more recipes than I could hope to make in a lifetime! 😯 )
Next up on the ABCGP “to-make” list?
Uh oh! It might be time to order more oats! 😉
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I love you. I get so stuck in a food rut sometimes. We are so going to try this.
And Quinoa Burgers – genius!! So going to do them for tomorrow nights dinner!
I love oats too, but haven;t ever made them this way. I will have to try 🙂
That looks really yummy!
Looks so yummy! Thanks for sharing the kind that you use and some recipes.