I don’t know about you, but to me the combination of peanut butter and banana is about as perfect as things can get. Add oatmeal into that mixture, and you get something that I could eat every single day. That is what I was hoping to achieve with these bars. This was actually a new recipe that I was sort of making up as I went along. I generally knew what I wanted it to end up tasting like, and tried to create the recipe accordingly. …

A friend of mine, Lori, introduced me to muesli, a few weeks ago and I really like it as a quick, simple, healthy breakfast option. I love finding new ways to eat more oatmeal and this one has been great. Like yesterday, this one turned out to be another “un-recipe” in that there aren’t really any quantities. Honestly though, I think those types of recipes can be more fun! I love the creativity that I can put into cooking, tossing in a dash of this and …

I really like how filling oatmeal is for breakfast. With some other breakfasts I usually get hungry around 10:30, but with oatmeal, I can easily go to 12:00 or later.
I put the frozen blueberries on my oatmeal after I cooked it this morning. I like that better than cooking the blueberries with it. I also replaced the PB with a serving of dried tropical fruit mix.

The dried banana was a little strange when eaten along side a slice of the banana I sliced up to cook in …

I got my 3-pack of Barney Butter from Amazon! They have an incredible deal going on right now. A 3-pack is normally $30, but it is on sale for $19 with $.99 shipping (free if you spend $25). On top of that, there is a promo code you can enter at checkout “BARNEY22″ for another 20% off!

Note: this link is regularly updated by Amazon, so the price is current, and not necessarily what it was at the time of this posting.
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I saw probably a dozen deer off in the fields on my way home from class last night. I tried to stop and take a picture of them, but they didn’t think that was such a good idea and ran away.
Breakfast
I was running a little behind this morning and threw a serving of quick-cook oats in a Tupperware container with a sliced banana, a small handful of raisins. I noticed I had one more cupcake (unfrosted) left and wondered how it might taste as a topping in my …