Most grow up eating Pop Tarts or Cinnamon Toast Crunch for breakfast. It isn\u2019t until we leave home that we realize the insanity of having dessert for breakfast. Even those cereals billed as healthy, like Cheerios and Granola, tend to be less than ideal options. Immersed in the norms of our convenience food society, we have to rethink how we design breakfast.<\/p>\n
Most grow up eating Pop Tarts or Cinnamon Toast Crunch for breakfast. It isn\u2019t until we leave home that we realize the insanity of having dessert for breakfast. Even those cereals billed as healthy, like Cheerios and Granola, tend to be less than ideal options. Immersed in the norms of our convenience food society, we have to rethink how we design breakfast.<\/p>\n
Prior to fatherhood, I\u2019d have a big spinach omelet every morning and had more than enough time to fit in all my other needs. When my wife and I adopted two children this past September, everything changed. It became a challenge to work out<\/a>, make breakfast, and attend to the many needs of two children under two. I had to use my time better and, even more, we had to be less wasteful with our food budget<\/strong>. Still, I couldn\u2019t allow these constraints to become excuses for eating less healthy.<\/p>\n This inspired the family to adopt steel cut oats as our staple breakfast. While I love the process of throwing these together on a Saturday morning, all that preparation is quite a burden on workdays. The sad reality is that to eat healthy without breaking the bank does require a little bit of time. I now batch that time to one easy Sunday morning. In less than 30 minutes I make a week\u2019s worth of delicious, nutritious breakfast for the whole family and all for less than $3. A week\u2019s worth of steel cut oats (I put in 5 cups of oats per week) is less than $1 per pound.<\/p>\n Making them is this simple:<\/p>\n You\u2019ll need:<\/p>\n And that\u2019s it! Other than, of course, the many other ingredients listed below which take this simple grain and turn it into a rockstar meal, you\u2019ll come to crave. Other suggested ingredients include:<\/p>\n The exact measurements are variable to your palate and desires. It is far more art than science.<\/p>\n Here is what mine looks like<\/strong>:<\/p>\nShane’s Steel Cut Oats Breakfast Solution<\/h2>\n
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