Recipe: Homemade Oatmeal

My homemade oatmeal, at the moment is one of my favourite breakfasts during the week. It is quick, healthy, and can be made to your taste. These days I am making my oatmeal like this:

Yield: 1 bowl of oatmeal

Ingredients:

• 3/4 cup of jumbo oats 
• 2 cups almond milk 
• 2 tablespoons of currants
• 1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon of nutmeg
• 1 teaspoon of wheat germ (extra fibre)
• honey to sweeten
• sliced almonds to garnish

Directions:

• Put the oats, currants, cinnamon, nutmeg wheat germ, and almond milk into a bowl and stir together
• Cook in the microwave on high for 4 minutes
• Stir and then cook for a further 2 minutes
• Sweeten with honey and garnish with almonds

You can alter this recipe many ways to suit your taste. So go crazy and make yourself some oats.

As a side note, I looked up the top reasons to eat oatmeal for breakfast and the reasons that appealed to me are:

• Save money and time - Oatmeal is a quick, cheap, breakfast meal.
• Oatmeal is versatile - It can be hot/cold, add spice, add sweetness, add fruits, add nuts... and so on.
• Oatmeal can help control your weight - which is always a bonus!!
• Oatmeal may help lower cholesterol and reduce high blood pressure (none of which I suffer from but still a pretty big positive).
• Oatmeal contains many vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants. It is also a great source of protein, complex carbohydrates and iron.
• Oatmeal can reduce the risk for Type 2 Diabetes.
• It might also reduce certain types of cancers

GO OATS!!