Exciting Breakfast

Oatmeal is a great food for breakfast- it offers fiber, protein and lots of other good nutrients. But sometimes it can get a little boring. Here's a quick and easy way to jazz it up and get an extra serving of fruit inside your kid.

Start off by cooking one serving of oatmeal. I recommend Kashi GoLean Creamy Truly Vanilla Instant Oatmeal. It has 9 grams of protein and 7 grams of fiber in one serving and it cooks in the microwave. Then get a few cubes of frozen homemade baby food that are any combination of fruit. My favorite to use is apple blueberry for the color and the antioxidants of the blueberries.
Plop the fruit cubes in and watch them melt.

Your child will love watching the colors swirl into the oatmeal.
The fruit cubes cool the oatmeal down so your child can eat sooner and it naturally sweetens the oatmeal.

A variation on this for an older child or one that is capable of eating different textures is to use a bag of frozen berries or frozen fruit. I recommend Trader Joe’s Frozen Organic blueberries or Trader Joe’s Frozen mixed berry blend. Simply sprinkle a serving of frozen fruit on top of the oatmeal and stir. The frozen berries will produce the same results as the fruit cubes both cooling and coloring the oatmeal.

-Posted By: Bethany Sebra