5-Ingredient Protein Oatmeal Bowl

Welcome to our weekly Foodie Friday link up! I’m linking up with Annmarie from the Fit Foodie Mama, Emily from Whatever Floats Your Oats, Esther from Chocolate Runner Girl, and Cassandra from Powered By Bling, to create awesome healthy recipes each week!

Today’s theme = Dairy-Free! Make sure you hop around to check out all the amazing recipes in this link up and feel free to add your recipes as well!

In anticipation of the fact that I will likely be without an address and/or kitchen for the next year or so, please realize that most if not all my Foodie Friday posts from uh, now through December (yes, December 2015) were all made in April and May when I was attempting a kitchen cleanse (aka using up everything in my pantry/kitchen so moving wouldn’ t be such a pain)! The “schedule post” feature is a wonderful thing.

The base recipe only takes 5 ingredients, and is ready in 5 minutes or less! I didn’t use protein powder, although you can definitely throw some in (add more milk!) if you want to punched in the face with more protein!

But why am I calling it a protein bowl if there’s no protein powder?

I had some tofu I needed to use up, so I decided to throw it into the oatmeal!

Don’t give me that face! Hear me out!

Tofu is essentially flavorless, and takes on the flavor of whatever the hecks you throw in with it. I’ve used it in smoothies (e.g. Strawberry Pineapple Tofu Smoothie) and desserts before (Pumpkin Tofu Mousse) and they’ve always gone over really well with people! :O Hell, I’ve even thrown it into lasagna (Pumpkin Tofu Lasagna) before. :O

Adding tofu made this a lot fluffier and creamier than usual oatmeal. I’ve talked before about how I’ll sometimes throw in an egg for fluffier oatmeal (e.g. Kahlua & Cream Oatmeal)…this is essentially the same concept!

Obviously, if you have any kind of allergy to soy products…don’t try this. :O Or sub out what you can! If you want simple, I can give you simple…

But wait! What if you want to kick it up a notch!?

Simple! Just go to town on the toppings! :D Sky’s the limit!

I used Big Slice Cinnamon French Toast, sliced strawberries, dried cranberries, unsweetened coconut flakes and hemp hearts on mine! No extra sweeteners were used because I think the fruit does a great job on that. :O

Protein Oatmeal Bowl

Ingredients:

• 1/4 cup quick oats
• 1/2 ripe banana
• 2-3 oz. soft or silken tofu
• 1/2 cup vanilla soy milk
• sprinkle of cinnamon (to taste)

(Topping Ideas)

• unsweetened coconut flakes, hemp hearts, chia seeds, flax seeds
• fresh fruit (e.g. sliced strawberries, bananas, kiwis, blueberries, raspberries, etc.)
• dried fruit
• granola

Instructions:

1. Add banana, tofu and soy milk to a blender and blend until smooth.
2. Combine oats with tofu mixture and microwave for 1.5-2 minutes.
3. Add toppings of your choice and serve!

End-of-Week-ish Recap!

• Find out how to improve your Sleep Hygiene on this week’s installment of Medical Mondays!
• Check out my review of Janet Fletcher’s new cookbook, Yogurt, as well as a 3-ingredient recipe for Pineapple Lassi!
• I’m on my OB/GYN rotation right now, so seeing a whole lotta childbirth is working wonders as birth control and adding to the reasons as to why I don’t want kids. ._. Have you ever seen a baby blasting through the perineum and causing an epic tear and bloodshed? It is the stuff of nightmares. :[

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