This post is in partnership with The Quaker Oats Company.
Oatmeal is hearty, filling, and there are so many ways to make it new again.
Get out of your boring oatmeal rut and get ready for a breakfast that’ll help prepare you to take on the day.
There’s texture and flavor galore including bananas drizzled with melted peanut butter and a touch of cinnamon, fresh and juicy pomegranate arils, and a diced Quaker® Chewy Granola Bar with chocolate and strawberries.
If you want to swap peanut butter for almond butter, use fresh blueberries or strawberries rather than pomegranate, or use your favorite dried fruit and nuts, go for it. Use what you have on had and whatever will get you excited to eat your oatmeal.
I partnered with Quaker and want to share their upcoming Bring Your Best Bowl contest. You’re encouraged to submit your most delicious oatmeal creation using 2 to 5 everyday ingredients for a chance to win $250,000 and for your oatmeal flavor to debut on store shelves. See the bottom of the post for the full contest details.
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Loaded Oatmeal Breakfast Bowl
Ingredients
- 1 ¾ cups water, or milk
- 1 cup Quaker Old-Fashioned Oats (Quick 1-Minute Oats
- pinch salt, optional and to taste
- 2 to 3 tablespoons brown sugar, optional and to taste
- ½ medium banana, peeled and sliced into thin rounds
- 2 to 3 tablespoons creamy peanut butter, melted if desired
- ½ cup pomegranate arils, strawberries, blueberries, or your favorite fruit may be substituted
- 1 Quaker Chewy Chocolate Strawberries Granola Bar, diced small
Instructions
- Add the water (or milk) to a medium pot and heat over medium-high heat until it boils.
- Add the oats, optional salt, and cook for about 5 minutes or until water is absorbed and oatmeal is tender; stir intermittently.
- Optionally add the brown sugar and stir to combine.
- Transfer oatmeal to a bowl and top with the banana, drizzle with peanut butter (heat peanut butter in a small, microwave-safe bowl for 8 to 10 seconds to melt it if desired), and add the pomegranate arils, granola bar pieces, and serve immediately. Oatmeal is best warm and fresh.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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Quaker is on the hunt to find America’s next great oatmeal flavor by launching the Bring Your Best Bowl contest. The contest celebrates the versatility of oatmeal and all the ways to enjoy it by inviting Americans to submit their most inspired oatmeal flavors using 2-5 ingredients for a chance to win $250,000, and have their combination brought to life as Quaker’s newest oatmeal flavor.
To enter the national contest, you’re encouraged to visit www.BringYourBestBowl.com and enter your oatmeal submission, along with the inspiration behind it, now through March 12, 2016. No Purchase Necessary. All entries will be judged on the following criteria: originality, creativity and inspiration; realistic execution and potential for a delicious flavor of Quaker Instant Oatmeal; and simplicity and appeal to mass audience.
It will then be up to America to decide which oatmeal flavors come out on top. Three finalists will be announced on www.BringYourBestBowl.com on or around National Oatmeal Day – October 29, 2016 – with the flavors hitting shelves in stores nationwide for consumers to try and vote on online through November 19, 2016.
Once votes are in and tallied, the grand prize winner will be announced and rewarded with $250,000 in February 2017 along with the chance for their oatmeal creation to debut on shelves nationwide.
Follow along with all the Bring Your Best Bowl fun and find recipe inspiration to enjoy the many delicious combinations of Quaker oatmeal as well as the official contest rules by visiting www.BringYourBestBowl.com. You can also follow @Quaker on Twitter, check out QuakerOats on Pinterest and visit Facebook.com/QuakerOats for more information.
Post is brought to you by Quaker. The recipe, images, text, and opinions expressed are my own. #BringYourBestBowl
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I could eat this every morning!! Â Love oatmeal bowls :)
Wow, that breakfast looks too good to eat! Love the bright pomegranite, I must start adding more toppings to my porridge :)
Ami x
I love pomegranate seeds, but I have never known how to use them in a recipe other than to top a salad. Thanks for this great idea!
So pretty and sounds super filling! Love that you loaded yours up with bananas and PB, I sure do love me some peanut butter!! Making this for breakfast tomorrow!Â
– Madeline<3
Hope you enjoy it!
Now this is what I call loaded. I don’t think I’ll be able to have lunch after a bowl of this oatmeal. Peanut butter and banana makes oatmeal awesome.
This oatmeal is GORGEOUS!! All those colors and textures – it’s the perfect breakfast!
Thanks for the compliments :)
What a gorgeous breakfast bowl! Â I love peanut butter & banana… Â and the addition of the granola bars is brilliant!
Peanut butter and banana is the best combo ever!
I made crockpot oatmeal for breakfast yesterday and my daughter said, “Why don’t people love oatmeal? It’s so yummy!”. I take a page out of your book and let them have add-ins–frozen blueberries cool down them temperature of the hot oatmeal and that’s the most requested around here, but spices and raisins and craisins are right up there, too. Thanks for the additional suggestions. I eat oatmeal as a snack … call me weird …
When I was in grade school and high school, I had oatmeal as a snack in the winter all the time! With a mountain of brown sugar, a big dollop of butter, raisins, and sometimes some heavy cream drizzled. Wish I still had that metabolism :)
I love that you made a crockpot full and great tip about just using frozen blueberries in it!
This is definitely a beautiful bowl of oatmeal! Â I have it every morning for breakfast and I’m always looking for a way to shake it up. Â I love the pomegranate seeds in there. Â And the pieces of granola bar look like they give it a great texture!
I love that you have oatmeal every morning!
Yum! This seriously looks DELICIOUS!m  I love oatmeal for breakfast!
Paige
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Looks delicious!Â
I love this bowl…peanut butter and bananas are the best combo…yum!!!
I will always love that combo!
This elevates oatmeal to gourmet status! I love your flavor combinations in this one and you’re right–the sky’s the limit for toppings. Toasted coconut and blueberries also popped into my head.
They would be awesome. I also wanted to do strawberries but when I went to the store for either blueberries or strawberries, being that they’re so out of season, they didn’t look so hot…but pomegranate to the rescue!
I’m coming to your house for breakfast! This looks AMAZZZZZZZZING! I am at a constant drool already! Get me some of this goodness!!!!I try to look away and I just can’t!
I know a lot of people are all about the almond butter, but I like it your way better. There’s just something about peanut butter that (for me, anyway) kicks every other nut butter’s behind!
This bowl looks amazing!
I wrote an entire cookbook about peanut butter! So for me, too, peanut butter will always reign supreme!