Cooking at your office… Peanut Butter Brown Sugar Banana Oatmeal (Regular & Protein Packed)

Now look at this…

Seriously, doesn’t that look AMAZING?!!!  Like so full of comfort, love and just yummy goodness.  Makes you want to grab a big bowl, your blanket, pj’s and watch Christmas cartoons all night, right?!  But.. it looks complicated; probably time consuming.  Ugh… too much effort so you’ll just reach for that bag of chips and beef jerky, huh?

*Smacks your hand* Put that down…  Trust me on this.  It is a BAJILLION times better for you and 10 BAJILLION times yummier for you. ANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNDDDDD as fast as you can get up, grab those chips and beef jerky and head back to your bed, you could have this made.

However… you’re in the office now and you’re surrounded with vending machines chalked full of fat, carbs and sugar (Yum.. NOT!), soda, butt-nasty coffee and some semblance of a cafeteria.  Now I’m not knocking cafeteria food.. as long as it’s good.  However I’m a food snob.  You all know this.  I like to control how food is made and more importantly, want to know what is going into the food being made.  That being said I almost never get something in my work cafeteria.  One it’s expensive and since Oprah won’t adopt me and the Hilton’s won’t return my calls, I cook and take in my food (that RAWWWWWWWWWWKS!!!)

With it being cold now I need oatmeal to give me warmth and also sustain my hunger until lunch.  This morning, just like all other mornings, I got out my container of oatmeal (I buy in bulk and keep a 1 qrt container in my desk), put some in my gorgeous red bowl, went to put the oats away and saw my peanut butter.  I then got to thinking.. “Self, why not flavor it with some yummy goodness?  Maybe peanut butter?” Soooooooooo since I know our cafeteria sells oatmeal and has the fixins on the side (brown sugar, raisins, etc) I popped down and got 1 teaspoon of it to go. I came back up, tossed in some peanut butter, poured in my milk and microwaved it for about 2-3 minutes.  The peanut butter got all melty and stirred beautifully into the plumped up oats.  When I got back to my desk I spied my banana so I sliced that up and then sprinkled the 2 teaspoon of brown sugar over top.  For presentation (and also for me cause I ♥ peanut butter) I added a dollop in the middle.

That first bite people… OH DEAR LORD! If I could have crawled inside the bowl and pulled over the banana slices as covers I would have died happy.  It was so yummilicious.. just enough peanut butter to make it creamy dreamy good, then brown sugar melted into pools of sinfulness and those bananas covered in the melty peanut butter and brown sugar.

THIS, my dear TKW family, made me an OFFICE GENIUS!  LOL

Seriously, this took *MAYBE* 3 minutes tops to make in the office.  I had so many people come up to me asking where I got it from.  When I said I just made it and explained how I made it myself in a few minutes well… let’s just say I think they are building a shrine to me now 🙂  LOL  I did promise that I’d post this tonight so they could go shopping this weekend to buy the stuff and all make it Monday morning in the office.

So I don’t want to ever hear again that you can’t make fresh, healthy food in the office AND have it taste AMAZING!

Cooking at your office… Peanut Butter Brown Sugar Banana Oatmeal (Regular & Protein Packed)

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Ingredients

• 1/2 cup Quick Cook Oats
• 1 1/4 cup milk (to keep it healthy use fat free)
• 3 tablespoon creamy peanut butter (natural/low sugar for diabetics)
• 1/2 banana cut into 1/2” slices
• 2 teaspoon brown sugar (Splenda Brown sugar for diabetics)

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Instructions

1. In a microwave safe bowl, add in the oats, protein powder (if using), peanut butter and milk.
2. Microwave on high for 1 minute.
3. Stir gently and cook for 1 more minute.
4. If the oatmeal is still too thin for you, microwave in 20-30 increments for up to 1 additional minute. If you cook it too long and it’s too thick, just add a tablespoon or two of milk and stir.
5. Add the sliced bananas and sprinkle over the brown sugar OR dark chocolate chips.

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