By Holly Sosa
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In our home, weekends are for breakfast-ing. We take our time to create breakfast, enjoying one another throughout the morning. Cartoons here, bacon sizzling there, we savor the morning and each other as a family. Typically, you can find Evelyn cozied up with her blanket on the couch as she watches Sofia or Minnie Mouse. She takes several minutes to wake up and much prefers to cuddle with her familiar characters while her body gets moving. Collin and Aiden are usually making much noise from one of the bedrooms as they build Legos or race their matchbox cars around their beds. Jacob takes his job as breakfast chef seriously and if I so much as pull the bacon out of the fridge, he gets territorial. I stay safe with a caffeine fix and email scan, replying to one or two as he gets things a-cookin’. We enjoy our weekend mornings so much, we’ve created the verb breakfast-ing to describe our lazy Saturday mornings.
Occasionally I manage to take over the sacred breakfast chef duties when my husband is feeling extra generous and when I do, I cook to impress, knowing I won’t get another chance for awhile. Last week, I stumbled upon an end cap at Target that featured tons of oatmeal mix in ideas. Somewhere in between scanning over the peanut butter and chocolate chips, I had an oatmeal epiphany that would do no less than demand my husband hand over his breakfast chef duties. Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Banana Oatmeal made with Old Fashioned Quaker® Oats because kids can’t so no to anything that has chocolate in it. It’s a cardinal kid rule. And my husband has a weak spot for anything chocolate and peanut butter flavored. Before I even began, I was winning this whole breakfast chef gig.
To start, I prepared the Old Fashioned Quaker® Oats as directed on the box.
Smoothie bowls are all the rage right now, but I’m just a mom trying to get her kids to eat (and love!) oatmeal, so I stole the smoothie bowl idea and instead created an oatmeal bar filled with mix-ins to create your own oatmeal bowl. But the focus was on chocolate. And peanut butter. And bananas. To create our oatmeal bowl bar, I simply added several toppings into small bowls. Oatmeal can be served buffet style as the kiddos add the toppings they so desire.
Once the oatmeal was ready, I added in some diced bananas, walnuts, and cinnamon.
Then I transferred the oatmeal into bowls and started my toppings.
Chopped walnuts.
Sliced bananas.
Chocolate chips.
And a hefty spoonful of peanut butter.
Tell me that doesn’t just look like glorious oatmeal perfection. My kids thought so. And they ate it all. I’m talking every last morsel, which in the parent world is all but a myth. What I’m trying to say here friends, is that I think I’m onto something with this Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Banana Oatmeal. And I think you should definitely try it.
Quaker® Oats is asking you to Bring Your Best Bowl and create an oatmeal bowl that you believe is prize-winning! Bring Your Best Bowl entries should have two to five ingredients. You don’t have to look very far if you shop at Target where they have end cap displays featuring tons of great mix-in ideas to inspire you to bring your best bowl. Be sure to head over to the national sweepstakes site to enter for a chance to inspire the next Quaker Oatmeal flavor and win $250,000. Plus top recipe entries will be created and sold in stores for a limited time in Fall 2016. Contest starts January 2016 and ends March 12, 2016.
What’s your favorite Quaker® Oats mix-in or topping? Are you a chocolate lover or do you prefer adding fruit? Whatever your choice, don’t forget to share it for a chance to win the Bring Your Best Bowl sweepstakes.
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