clean food for my messy life
Y’all want to know how this happened? Somebody told me pizza isn’t for breakfast and I was like… watch me.
But also, it happened because my friend Bridgett asked for it.
We absolutely love pizza and we absolutely love breakfast, so why not? The only thing I was set on was making it healthy. While I may enjoy a real quality pizza crust loaded with my favorite toppings, I always like to start my day with a clean and healthy breakfast.
Unless it’s Saturday. Then anything is fair game….
Blueberry. Oat. Muffins.
Three of my favorite things got married and became one. Something about that is wrong, but let’s just move on.
If am going to eat grains, it is almost always oats. And if I am going to eat baked goods, it’s almost always muffins. And blueberries are like little balls of blue candy full of nutrients.
When my friend Bridgett asked me for a gluten free blueberry muffin recipe, I instantly said yes. I always look for excuses to make muffins. And then when my husband comes home and sees more muffins, I’m like, “sorry babe, Bridgett made me do it.”…
Peanut butter cups are life.
Okay, maybe they are not life, but good grief they are delicious. Bonus points if they are the dark chocolate peanut butter cups from Trader Joe’s.
And honestly? Sometimes I want to eat them for breakfast. But that’s bad. So I don’t….
Y’all, let’s just talk about avocados for a minute.
First of all, they are ENTIRELY delicious. Second, they are super good for you- even more than people realize. Yes, they have all the great fats that your body needs and promote good healthy cholesterol, but did you know that they are also loaded with other benefits? “Like what,” you ask.
Well, they have even more potassium than a banana, they are loaded with fiber, and if that’s not enough for you, they are also extremely rich in vitamin K and folate….
If you’re anything like me, you might just absolutely love granola, but absolutely hate how much sugar and wheat is crammed into most of the store bought options.
For the last few weeks I have basically been avoiding greek yogurt (which used to be a breakfast staple for us) because I just really need granola with my greek yogurt, but I just couldn’t seem to find the right one. I finally decided that I was desperate enough to have my yogurt that I would make a granola.
I have worked on a few granolas in the past, but for some reason I just wasn’t quite sold on any of them. Some thing was missing. You know… that granola-y granola thing… the thing about granola that makes you want a little bit in every single bite of your yogurt or your smoothie bowl….
Okay y’all, I just need you to know that this one was a little bit of a stretch for me.
I have never been a “tangy” smoothie or candy or frozen yogurt kind of girl. I like my sweets… uhm, sweet. I like my smoothies sweet, creamy, and delicate- and sometimes with a bit of peanut butter.
But, desperate times call for what? Creativity. (I know that’s not how the saying goes, but that’s how it went for me the other day)….
Does anyone not love muffins?
How could you not? They’re little little fluffy nuggets of sweetness and texture with little treasures hidden on the inside. They’re just so delicious and completely satisfying.
If I am being honest, muffins are probably the one thing I truly struggle to have self control with. Luckily for me, most of the muffins in the shiny cases at cafes are not gluten free, so all I can do is look at them. But when a gluten free muffin crosses my path- Lord help me….
Okay, actually these are peanut butter oatmeal chocolate chip cookie pancakes.
But that’s a mouthful right?
EXACTLY. It was a mouthful….
I don’t normally like it when people say anything is the easiest because I’m usually like, “how do you know there isn’t something easier out there?”
But seriously, y’all.
This grain free granola really is the easiest granola I have come up with. AND it’s clean. Heck, technically it’s paleo. Or is it? I don’t really know if stevia is paleo or not, and if it’s not, I’ll probably (definitely) never be paleo….
You may or may not have picked up on this, but I just love oats.
I like them in traditional oatmeal form, cookies, muffins, cobblers, on my yogurt, and especially as baked oatmeal.
Sometimes I feel like I get stuck in a rut when it comes to my baked oatmeal. I have my few favorite things that I love- peanut butter baked oatmeal, peanut butter chocolate chip baked oatmeal, mixed berry baked oatmeal, and of course pumpkin baked oatmeal. Because I love these so much, I don’t often venture into the unknown.…
