What's For Breakfast?

Stove-Top Steelcut Oats With Bluberries & Walnuts

Breakfast is indeed the most important meal of the day.  After a long night of fasting, your body is craving nutrients.  I always like to start my breakfast off with a 16 ounce glass of water to hydrate my body.  This morning I made stove-top steelcut oats topped with cinnamon, blueberries, and walnuts, accompanied with egg whites for my lean protein.

The health benefits of steelcut oats, blueberries, and walnuts make this an excellent breakfast combination.  Steelcut oats are an excellent source of fiber (5g 1/2C dry), protein (7g 1/2C), and iron (20% RDI 1/2C dry).  Blueberries have the highest antioxidant capacity of all fresh fruit, they neutralize free radicals which can affect disease and aging in the body, they aid in reducing belly fat, they help promote urinary tract health, they help to strengthen cardiac muscles, and help promote brain health.  Walnuts are a rich source of energy.  They are rich in monounsaturated fatty acids, 25g of walnuts provide 90% RDI of omega-3 fatty acids, and they are an excellent source of vitamin E.  What an excellent way to start the day!

I prefer to make steelcut oats in my crockpot (I love my crockpot!).  It's so convenient to wake up to a hot breakfast, especially on busy mornings.  However, movie watching last night with my husband threw me off schedule, and the steelcut oats never made it to the crockpot.  Luckily I had an extra 20 minutes this morning to throw them on the stove!

1/2C steelcut oats
1 1/2C water
pinch of salt

Add oats, water, and salt into a small pot.  Bring to a boil.  Reduce heat to low and simmer, stirring frequently, for about 20 minutes.  Top with cinnamon, blueberries, and walnuts.  Yummy!!!