Chocolate Oatmeal

(Vernon Here)

 

Are you a chocolate lover but are choosing the unhealthiest of chocolate options?  Try this recipe to not only satisfy your chocolate cravings but also to reap the many health benefits of all these ingredients.

 

For breakfast today, I made a quick, healthy and tasty breakfast for the family.  Oatmeal, baking cocoa powder, almond milk, dates, flax seed, bananas and walnuts each have great nutritional benefits and I decided to combine them all together for this recipe:

 

I made enough for two adults and three children.  I used:

 

2 cups Old Fashioned Quaker Oats

4 cups Original Flavored Almond Milk

2 heaping teaspoons of baking cocoa powder

3 tablespoons of ground flax seed (found in grocer's baking aisle)

2 tablespoons of walnuts

3 pitted dates (for sweetness)

2 bananas

1 teaspoon chocolate flavored PB2 (optional, gives more intense chocolate/nut taste)

 

 

 

Make sure you adjust this recipe to meet YOUR tastes and preferences. 

 

 

I put the almond milk, walnuts and dates into a blender and blended this mixture for 30 seconds on high.  I put this mixture in a saucepan and heated the liquid for a couple of minutes on high heat.  I added the oatmeal, PB2 and flax seed and stirred this occasionally.  I added a bit more milk at times to maintain the consistency of choice.  After the oats softened, I distributed the mixture into the bowls and cut up the bananas into pieces and placed them on top of the oatmeal. 

 

 

 

 

Find out more about the benefits of cocoa HERE, HERE and HERE .

 

Find out more about the benefits of dates HERE .

 

Check out these videos for the benefits of flax seeds HERE .

 

 

 

 

 

PB2 can be found at Walmart, HyVee and Whole Foods near the peanut butter. 

There is chocolate and peanut butter flavored.