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- 2 cups rolled oats
- 1 cup milk (any type)
- 1 cup greek yogurt
- 2 tablespoons pure maple syrup
- 2 tablespoons brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- In a bowl, combine all the ingredients until well mixed.
- Transfer to mason jars or other single serving containers.
- Refrigerate for at least 2 hours or overnight.
- Optional: Heat for 30 seconds before serving.
You can also wait until you put the oats into the single serving containers to add toppings. That way you can make them for the whole week and have different oats each morning.
So good and so easy. No more hangry mom in the mornings!
Do you eat breakfast every day? What are your favorite overnight oat combos?
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- Spray oil
- 6 hash browns (Trader Joe's brand are our favorite)
- 10 strips cooked bacon
- 8 eggs
- Salt & pepper to taste
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1 teaspoon everyday seasoning blend
- 1 cup shredded cheese
- 4 squares puff pastry
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
- Spray a 13x9 baking pan with oil.
- Arrange the hash browns in the bottom of the pan so that the whole bottom is covered, trimming if necessary.
- Arrange cooked bacon strips on top of hash browns.
- Whisk together eggs with salt, pepper and spices and pour over the bacon.
- Sprinkle half the cheese over the egg.
- Place puff pastry sheets over the cheese and brush with olive oil.
- Sprinkle remaining cheese over the top of puss pastry.
- Bake for 30 minutes or until the puff pastry turns golden brown.
- Let stand for 5 minutes before cutting.
Breakfast lasagna is comfort food at it’s best. You know you’ve got a winning recipe on your hands when your 6 year old tells you that he is going to want seconds, after taking his first bite.
Cheesy breakfast lasagna is also a great dish to serve for dinner instead of a traditional lasagna. And let’s be real – who doesn’t love breakfast for dinner?
It is also the perfect way to celebrate Nation Lasagna Day, which happens to be today – July 29th!
What’s your favorite breakfast food? Have you ever made a breakfast lasagna?
I was provided with a personalized lasagna pan from Personalized Creations for this post. Make your own here!
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I have never been a morning person. I can stay up all night, but I dread mornings, even when I get more than 8 hours of sleep. When I started my new job in December, I was forced to become a morning person. I went from having to be at work at 10 am to having to wake up at 6 to be at work by 7:30 am ready to interact with 3 and 4 year balls of energy all day long. Talk about a wake up call.
When I was waking up later, I had all the time in the world to mosey around and get creative with breakfast, but now I feel like I’m at a constant battle with the clock to make it out the door on time. I know that breakfast is important and I need to eat it everyday, but it is just way too easy to run out the door with an empty stomach.
Most mornings I was eating yogurt and a banana, but I was still ending up hungry (and hangry) before lunch. I really hit the breakfast jackpot when I paired my usual Dannon Oikos Greek yogurt with crunchy belVita Breakfast Biscuits. The 12 grams of protein in the yogurt help keep me full until lunch and the biscuits help keep my energy levels steady all morning long. The belVita Breakfast Biscuits come in 5 flavors, but my absolute favorite is the Apple Cinnamon. (I’ve also had the Golden Oat and Chocolate flavors so far.)
I really thing that the key to having your morning run smoothly is to put in a little prep the night before. Every night before bed, I lay out my banana, belvita and coffee mug on the counter. In the morning, I just grab my yogurt out of the fridge and I am ready to go, no missed breakfast, no excuses.
Most mornings, there is a hungry little monster who makes me share my belVita. Even after eating his breakfast at home, I’ll hear “Mama, do you have your biscuits?” from the backseat. Luckily, they come four to a pack, which is more than enough to split with this little man.
Thanks to belVita and Dannon Oikos, I have one less thing to worry about in the mornings. If you’ve ever had to get a four year old up, dressed and out the door in the morning, you know how much every minute counts. And hopefully, one day the little man will learn which shoe goes on which foot, so our mornings will run even more smoothly. 
If you want to learn more about Dannon Oikos and belVita, you can check them out on facebook (Dannon Oikos / belVita) and twitter (Dannon Oikos / belVita.)
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]]>It the last week and a half I’ve juiced every day but Saturday and I’ve only had one fail. It turns out that no matter what you read online, kohlrabi is not meant to be juiced, at least not by me.
I will admit that I have been playing it fairly safe using a lot of apples and carrots in my juices, but I am trying to incorporate the things that I already have at home, or that I get from CSA. I want to move toward more greens, which works out well because I just got a bunch last night in my CSA share.
Fresh pineapple juice is like nothing else. The juice was frothy and my favorite so far! If only the pineapple wasn’t such a pain in the butt to peel.
I also wanted to announce the winner of the Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead DVD! Congrats Ashley!
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Shoot me an email at frolicthroughlife@gmail.com, so I can get everything out to you ASAP!
What’s your favorite juice combo? Have you ever had a juice disaster?
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Speaking of Trader Joe’s, I’ve also been enjoying their pre-made sushi. I love that they use brown rice!
My number one new favorite thing in life is the Almond Coco Loco Chobani. If you can find these in your supermarket, jump on them. They are like dessert in Chobani form.
Another thing that I’ve been slightly obsessed with are English cucumbers. I have been eating these as a crispy treat with Chiptole Pepper Hummus. Delish!
This is Vegetarian Duck with Mushroom in Garlic Sauce from Chai Thai, where we went for dinner over the weekend. I’m not sure where vegetarian duck comes from, but it might just be heaven.
Lox are one of favorite things to get when we go out for bagels for breakfast, so I decided to recreate it at home. Not as great as it would be on a fresh bagel, but not too shabby either. 
Black Bean Veggie Meatball Pitas. When I told Tommy what I was making for dinner, he told me that he wasn’t looking forward to it until he tried them. They were very yummy. 
Soy Glazed Salmon. Only 15 minutes under the broiler and dinner was served.
So these are my meatless eats so far. I thought that I would miss eating meat, but it’s been a week and I haven’t had a single craving. I always had a feeling that I would do well as a vegetarian. I think that Lent will show me that I don’t really enjoy eating meat as much as I thought I did and that veggies are my BFFs.
What was the best thing you ate this week?
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- 1 cup rolled oats
- 1 cup quinoa, rinsed
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 2 cups almond milk
- 1 large egg
- 1½ tablespoon coconut oil
- 2 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 cup blueberries
- 1 cup strawberries, sliced
- Preheat oven to 375 and lightly grease your pan.
- Mix together oats, quinoa, baking powder and cinnamon.
- Pour melted coconut oil over the dry ingredient mixture.
- In a separate bowl lightly beat egg and add in milk and vanilla.
- Combine wet and dry ingredients and fold in berries.
- Bake for 40 minutes.
- Serve with a dollop of Greek yogurt and drizzle of maple syrup (for extra deliciousness)
I kept it covered in the fridge all week and just popped it into the microwave for a minute to reheat in the mornings. Easiest breakfast ever!
And if you need some more quinoa action, head over to Wish & Whimsy where I am guest posting today with more quinoa action!
What’s your favorite quick breakfast?
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]]>After many Facebook convos back and forth regarding whether it was right to go trick or treating, we decided it was a go. I had been hyping up Halloween for Alex for almost a month and I knew that he deserved to have fun and get some candy in the process. But before we set out to get sugar high, we ate a good breakfast – Blender Pumpkin Oat Pancakes. Pancakes are a breakfast that we love, so I always try to starts off exciting days with pancakes. Check out last year’s Halloween pancakes.
I had originally wanted to make Banana Oatmeal Pancakes that I saw in Fitness magazines, but after blending together my milk and oats I realized that we were out of bananas and pumpkin came to the rescue.
- 1½-C Skim Milk
- 1 C Rolled Oats
- ¾ C Pumpkin Puree
- ½-C Whole Wheat Flour
- 1 T + 1 t Baking Powder
- In a blender, puree milk and oats until smooth.
- Add pumpkin puree, flour, and baking powder and puree a few seconds more.
- Let batter rest for 10 minutes.
- Heat a griddle over medium heat. Mist with nonstick cooking spray, then scoop batter into pan in ¼-Cup increments.
- Reduce heat to medium low and cook pancakes until air bubbles appear and underside is golden brown, about 5 minutes.
- Flip and cook about 5 minutes more.
Later on that evening, we set out for trick or treating.
And at the end of the evening Buzz Lightyear was so tired that he couldn’t fly home…he had to be carried.
Do you have any special holiday breakfasts?
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]]>I threw together one of my favorite waffle combos from last fall – Pumpkin Cream Waffles. All you need is a tablespoon of pumpkin, tablespoon of Chobani, some pumpkin spice and some maple syrup and viola!
The next thing that I am dying to make are a healthier version of Starbucks’ pumpkin cream cheese muffins. Those babies were my BFFs when I was pregnant with Munchkin, but since then I’ve tried to stay away since they aren’t exactly the healthiest thing on the Starbucks menu. Every time I step foot into Starbucks, I swear that I hear them calling my name from the pastry case!
What pumpkin goodies do you want to try this season?
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]]>So anyway, my name is Cinnamon and I am the blog mastermind behind eatPRAYtri.com. And when I say blog mastermind, I really mean a wife and stepmother trying really hard yet failing miserably at most things (cooking and working out to name a few), buuuuut loving every minute of life anyway and talking about it all on the internet!
Sylvia guest posted for me a while back while I was away in Mexico and her post got rave reviews. When she asked me to return the favor, I jumped at the chance although I don’t think my post will get quite the reviews as hers did. But a girl can dream right?
I present to you one of my all time favorite recipes:
See what I mean?
I love blogging for lots of different reasons, but one of the biggest reasons BY FAR is the stuff I learn. Sometimes I seriously wonder how I got anything accomplished before I started reading blogs. That was only about a year ago, so honestly the fact that I have actually made it to 36 is probably a miracle. 
Seriously though, the things you pick up and learn just by reading other peoples perspectives and opinions is just fantastic. This little go-to breakfast of mine is a combination of two things I learned from reading blogs. I just put them together and viola! I have my new favorite (SUPER EASY) breakfast that I eat MOST days of the week.
The microwave egg sandwich
I had never really seen or heard of sandwich thins before blogging. Maybe I just didn’t pay attention in the grocery store (I have no idea how long they have been around) but I swear I had no idea these existed. Then I saw bloggers left and right throwing peanut butter, almond butter, cashew butter (bloggers love nut butter if you couldn’t tell) and banana or strawberry or whatever else on top of these sandwich thins and having (what seemed to me) the greatest breakfast ever.
I jumped on board right away. And what do you know? They are fantastic. Now we get them at Costco, stick them in the freezer and eat them until our little hearts are content.
THEN, I read about microwaving eggs. Probably doesn’t seem like rocket science to most people, and I guess it doesn’t really seem like that to me either, but I had never once before in my life considered microwaving eggs. I have no idea why. So of course, this idea was brilliant to me. And made me feel incredibly stupid all at the same time.
I love eggs and I think I pretty much always have, but I never wanted to make them because they were messy, dirtied a pan and took longer than a minute to prepare. This does not fly when you have to get out the door because you hit snooze too many times and now you are running late and you still have to drive an hour to work. Its also really hard to eat eggs in the car unless they are hardboiled or solidified in some way between two pieces of bread.
What a minute.
Stop the presses.
Hold on.
Idea time.
How about I microwave an egg in the exact same size dish as the sandwich thin? Slap it in the middle, wrap it up and take it in the car so that I could eat it on the way to work?
And the whole thing takes literally about 1 min 30 seconds to put together?
Yep, that just happened.
So this is what I do. I get all my stuff together
I put the sandwich thin in the toaster and then I crack the egg into the dish and put in some salt, pepper and a sprinkling of shredded chedda cheese
Then I scramble it all up and throw it in the microwave for 1 minute
This is what comes out
About this time my sandwich thin is done toasting so I slap the egg on there (fits PERFECTLY), wrap it up in a paper towel and put it on top of my coffee mug to take out to the car.
I mean seriously. It probably took longer to read this post than to make this breakfast. And its good for you.
This is also proof why reading blogs is good for you too! Especially mine.
What is your go-to breakfast?
Did you know about microwaving eggs before you were an adult? Please say no so I feel better.
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I shall start with my favorite thing of the week – Thai Peanut Spaghetti Squash. It was so good that I had seconds and ate it for breakfast the next day. No shame!
Numero dos on the list is this watermelon, arugula and Feta salad. Light, refreshing, tasty…the perfect summer salad.
Sushi is my year-round staple. I could eat it every day, but my wallet prevents that from happening. If I ever win the lottery, I’m hiring a personal sushi chef.
Dippy eggs are another S4L – staple for life! Luckily, I make a mean dippy egg so no personal egg chef required.
Let’s move on to the indulgent snackage. I couldn’t resist the Salted Caramel Sauce that I got in this month’s Foodie Pen Pals package. It was calling my name from the pantry, so I gave in. I had it with apple slices, so it basically cancelled out the caramel sauce, right?
And you can’t call it a good week if there is no fro yo involved. End.of.story. There were actually two fro yo trips this week, so you know it was a goooood one!
Lastly, I leave you with an inquiry…
Has anyone ever tried coconut milk yogurt? I only bought one on my last trip to Whole Foods and it took me about a week to try it, and when I did it was chunky and kind of weirdly textured. I wasn’t able to make out the date on the back, so I’m not sure if it’s just an acquired taste, or did I eat expired yogurt. Help?!
What’s the best thing you ate this week? What’s your favorite fro yo combo?
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