Vanilla Banana Breakfast Oats

Ingredients

1/4 cup of steel cut oats

3/4 cup of water

1/8 tsp salt

2 Tbls of vanilla coconut milk coffee creamer

1 banana-diced

Bring water and salt to a boil

Add oats, cover, and cook on low for 14 minutes. (Can cook 10-20 mins-depending on desired texture)-stir occasionally-especially towards the end of the cooking time

Add creamer and banana

Enjoy!

I bought steel cut oats awhile ago because I heard that they were good for you on the Oprah show. Dr. Oz said that the high fiber content made it a great breakfast option and Oprah even stated that she ate them every morning. Well, I made the oats according to the directions on the package and I thought they were a little boring. So I stuffed them back in my cupboard and forgot about them. So last week I decided to give them another try and I was pleasantly surprised! I had the vanilla coconut milk coffee creamer leftover and since I am trying to cutdown on coffee, I needed to use it up before it spoiled. I know that it may not be easy to find this creamer in every grocery store, but if you can I highly recommend it! In one tablespoon it only has 20 calories and 2 grams of sugar. If you can't find the creamer, I have use vanilla coconut milk and it tasted just as good! If you can't find that either you could put vanilla in regular milk. You can also doctor up this recipe in many different ways. For example, I added cinnamon when the oats were cooking and it was really good! You can also add ground flax, cardamon, honey, maple syrup, shredded coconut, frozen fruit (blueberries are awesome and then you have purple oats) walnuts, or dried fruits. You could make it different every morning!