It’s hard to beat oatmeal for an easy, budget-friendly, and healthy breakfast. If you would like to try a new spin on an old favorite, you will love baked oatmeal. It doesn’t need to be watched over the stove, and I have yet to meet anyone who doesn’t enjoy it!
Baked Oatmeal Recipe
- 2 cups of oats
- 3 cups water
- 1 or 2 diced or shredded apples
- 1/2 cup dried fruit
- 1/3 cup sweetener of your choice (sugar, brown sugar, honey, maple syrup…)
- 1 tsp salt
Mix all the ingredients together in an oven-proof dish (I use a rectangular Pyrex dish). Cover with aluminum foil. Bake at 350 for 30 minutes if you use boiling water, or 1 hour if you use room temperature water.
Makes 4 servings.
Be creative! My kids prefer no dried fruits in it, while my husband loves it with prunes, so I place chopped prunes of half of it before baking. Sometimes I add some cinnamon, other times I replace the apples with pineapple. You can add chopped raw nuts as well. We like to eat ours served with milk and almond or peanut butter on top.
Mélissa Silva
Melissa Silva is the financial literacy class assistant at Birch and a proud wife and mom who loves to feed her family healthy, tasty meals on a budget.