Turning ripe bananas into a delicious and healthy baked oatmeal. Plus meal prep for my family with an enchilada casserole and banana oatmeal with extra protein.
Hello! How’s it going? It’s been a little challenging over here with running and life and eating and everything in between. But I’m alive and well and distracting myself with Sister Wives (random) and using emojis every waking hour.
Last night I went out to enjoy a few adult beverages. I feel like my favorite part of going out is talking to best friend on speaker while I get ready. Ha! That’s like the highlight so I should just do that and then stay home. I’ll consider it.
But I did need this too:
Today I woke up bright and early to… RAIN?!!! It never rains here (hence the drought). It rains so rarely that I didn’t even recognize the sound of the rain coming down and thought I left the AC on blast or something. Ha!
Anyway I braved the rain for 15 miles and then hit the store for some post-long run essentials:
Chips.
These Harvest Pumpkin chips are a yes. Yes.
Then, I headed to my parent’s house to dog-sit for the day. They were out of town and the puppies and big dogs need love and food and stuff.
When I got there I was greeted with super super beyond ripe bananas. How are these people living? They just pass by these bananas and don’t grab one and slather PB on it 3 times a day??!?!?! Get it together family!!!
Anyway. I decided to… immediately eat one with PB. And then, I made baked banana oatmeal.
It’s gluten free (if you use gf oats) and has extra protein from cottage cheese. Plus it’s delicious and warm and comforting.
Baked Banana Oatmeal
- 3 super super ripe bananas
- 3 Tb brown sugar (packed)
- 1/4 cup cottage cheese
- 1 egg
- 1 & 1/4 cup quick cook oats
- 1 tsp each: baking soda, cinnamon, vanilla extract
- 1/2 tsp salt
- optional: raisins, nuts, dried cranberries, chocolate chips…
Directions: Heat oven to 350 degrees. Smash bananas. Combine with sugar, cottage cheese, egg and vanilla extract. Add dry ingredients. Mix thoroughly. Bake at 350 degrees for 30-45 minutes or until set.
Then, since I knew they would be coming home late I prepped dinner for my mom for tomorrow night. I made enchilada casserole with some leftover carnitas they had in the fridge. Just heat and eat tomorrow.
Meal prep done – just not for me, so I can eat Oreos all week 
When I wasn’t meal prepping, I was rolling around with the dogs. Actually it was kind of perfect – the internet wasn’t working well at the house so I couldn’t work like I originally intended and just sat in the grass with all the perros. It was really good for my soul.
They all took turns sitting on my lap. I loved it more than they did.
And now I’m cuddling with Vegas and talking to you nice people.
Question: What was the BEST thing you did or ate this weekend?
Me: cookies ‘n cream ice cream at my parents.
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