Wednesday, February 29, 2012

No oat oatmeal

I had to start with the recipe for no oat oatmeal.  It's the one thing that I would say got me through the Whole30 plan and made the paleo diet livable at the beginning. I found this recipe after a few days into the diet.  Now, I know you will be skeptical because we certainly were, and the whole thing has a Dickensian air about it, but this is absolutely my favourite.  Sam and I eat it every morning and (like all breakfast foods) at other times of the day too.  It's largely the recipe that can be found here, but I make it in a larger quantity because it really is labour intensive.  I usually grind about 5 or 6 cups of nuts in my blender on a Sunday and they will keep me going for a week or so.  I use a walnut/pecan/ almond mixture, but I imagine that any combination of nuts would do.

I whisk 12 eggs with 1 cup of almond milk.  Then I blend 4 or 5 bananas and then add 2 large tablespoons of almond butter.  I add the blended mixture to the eggs/almond milk and mix with the whisk.  Then I add 2 cups of ground nuts, 1/2 cup Trader Joe's ground flax seed with blueberries, some vanilla, ground ginger, cinnamon and nutmeg.  Mix it all together and then cook in a pan until it's done.  I tend to leave it a little underdone so that it's not overcooked when we microwave it.  I make a batch on Sunday and put a portion into 5 containers.  I add some blueberries and strawberries to each one and I take them to work on Monday and put in the fridge.  Then I have my breakfast organized for the whole week.  Sam puts raisins with his and the same fruit that I do.  Please, Sir, can I have some more?????

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