Oatmeal Snack (It’s Not Just for Breakfast)

You guys know I love oatmeal. I love it especially for breakfast, but I’ve also eaten it for lunch, dinner, and dessert.

And, today, I enjoyed some oatmeal as a….

S-N-A-C-K!!!

A pre-work-out snack that is.

After a pretty awesome day of eats, I wanted a really good afternoon snack.

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What to look for in a pre-workout snack: I always try to fuel up for a workout by eating a little extra food to give me energy and make up for some of my soon-to-be-burned calories. I look for carbs with a little protein. I shoot for between 100-250 calories for my exercise fuel, depending on what else I ate that day. If I already had a snack earlier in the day or a large breakfast/lunch, I stay to the lower end and visa versa.

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When to eat a pre-workout snack: I try to eat my snack about an hour to an hour and a half before my work out.

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I usually go for a meal bar, but mostly because they’re convenient and I can keep them at my desk at work.

Today, since I was WFH, I decided to make…OATMEAL! 🙂 Oatmeal is great for breakfast but also makes for a great pre-workut snack.

I went for AB+J (almond butter and jelly) Oatmeal. I think I would have been better off using dried fruit as my sweetener instead of jelly. I don’t think (though I’m not exactly sure) that jelly gives you energy (maybe a sugar high if anything?) but dried fruit gives you a good energy boost from what I understand. Today, I was more worried about getting some good carbs for energy.

AB+J Oatmeal

To the pot:

  • 1/4 cup organic skim milk
  • 1/4 cup water
  • 1/4 cup rolled oats
  • 1/2 tsp chia seeds
  • 1/2 tsp flaxseeds
  • (no sweetener)

Cooked stove top till thickened.

Toppings:

  • Barney Butter (about or just under 1 tbsp)
  • Earthfare Organic pomegranate jelly (about 1 tbsp – this was my sweetener)
  • Chopped raw almonds (about 2 – I mean, I already had plenty in the Barney Butter!)

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Not sure if it was the oatmeal or my good job with Project Hydrate today, but I had an awesome workout and plenty of energy! Yay!

1 amazing hour of dance fitness…I love starting my weekend out with a good exercise!

We worked on more of my choreography tonight: Meet Me Halfway (as a warm up song). We just need to polish that one off and finish Bad Romance. Oh yea! I love choreographing songs. Perhaps I should have been a figure skating instructor or something?

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Check out my friend Megan rocking out a song at class tonight. Get it Megan! 🙂

Reader question: Have you eaten oatmeal any time other than breakfast?

5 thoughts on “Oatmeal Snack (It’s Not Just for Breakfast)”

  1. Oh most definitely. Sometimes I’ll do the green monster thing for breakfast and save my oats in a jar for lunch. I think oatmeal is delicious anytime you want something warm to fill you up. Although… I will admit, I haven’t made the switch to savory oats. So when I have oatmeal it’s always with fruit.
    Rock it zumba style!!

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  2. I wish I could rate this post girl! I LOVE oats any time of day (even if I already had them at breakfast). For a while I was eating them as a nighttime snack LOL. Now that I’m limiting my nighttime snacking, I eat oatmeal for dinner about once a week. If I have food I can feed the family, and I can work it in, I’ll do a batch with 3/4 cup oatmeal! And this week I indulged and put a reeses egg on top. It was the perfect dinner/dessert and I couldn’t eat the whole bowl!

    I hadn’t considered making a smaller batch that I could have for an afternoon snack. Keeping that in mind 🙂

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