Carrot Cake Zucchini Bread Oatmeal, what could be nicer to wake up to on a Saturday morning? This was my first foray into eating oatmeal post-sleeve, despite having been told quite a few times that it was an option. Oatmeal, prior to surgery, was giving me stomach bubbles and pushing my blood sugar up and it's a grain, why eat a grain post-surgery? But it looked so good and I planned to boost the protein so I gave it a try. I measured four tablespoons into my bowl, added a little extra 5X protein almond milk and a couple of drops more vanilla stevia then mixed a half scoop of unflavored protein powder into it. I was able to eat two and a half tablespoons. It filled me up but didn't give me the uncomfortable feeling I sometimes get. Three hours later I took a little spoonful of it for a snack and did get that uncomfortable feeling so I know it was still in my stomach. It kept me pretty much full from 7am until 1pm when I had a low blood sugar and needed to have something to bring my number up. I think that a two and a half tablespoon serving that keeps me full for hours and hours, even if it is a grain is ok now and then and will plan to make this recipe again. Here is how I modified from 86 Lemons' recipe.
I did not oil my crockpot. There was a little bit crisped on the top edge on one side but I mixed things up before serving anyway and it mixed right in. I'll note that I made a double batch, not realizing how much the steel cut oats would puff up. Even feeding three of us full portions we have some left over. I plan to freeze two and a half tablespoon servings and hopefully they'll do ok defrosted and popped in the microwave.
1 cup organic steel cut oats
3 cups 5X protein almond milk
2 small farm carrots, grated
1 small farm zucchini, grated
1/2 teaspoon sea salt
pinch of nutmeg
pinch of ground clove
1 teaspoon cinnamon
splash of Grade B maple syrup
2 droppersful vanilla stevia
We like vanilla and I would have wanted to use the optional vanilla extract but at 9pm last night when I put it together I discovered my choices were whole vanilla beans, vanilla sugar or vanilla stevia. It was too late to get to Trader Joe's to get alcohol-free vanilla so I made do with what I had, reduced the maple syrup and subbed the vanilla stevia. Next time I plan to use vanilla extract and maple syrup. I used no nuts because I'm not at the stage where I can have whole nuts yet and I didn't think adding nut butter would work for this. If you try it with nut butter won't you please share your results with me?
I cooked this on low overnight and we were very happy to wake up to it.
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