Whole Food Dessert RECIPE

I just learned something!!! When blogging, don't try and figure things out until you are done typing, or you will lose all you wrote down! It just happened to me.

 All this week, I have been feeding my family whole foods. It has been a wonderful journey to finally get to that place of really doing it. I sent my kids to school with vegetables and fruit in their lunches for school. Not to say my kids didn't have fruit and vegetables, it just wasn't a daily thing. I even used those Ziploc divider lunch boxes recommended by another blogger, who you can find at "100 days of Real Food." I love this blog. So informative. My son, when he came home said he loved eating his salad with nuts and his little jelly jar filled with his salad dressing. (I will talk about my mason jar discovery some other time.)

 But today, I was hankering for something sweet. I walked in the door of my home, after a long day working. Now mind you, I have had NO sugar all week. A thought of a crunchy sweet dessert overwhelmed me! So, here is my recipe I have had in my back pocket since my college days. My girlfriend who was from Switzerland made this for me in our college dorm. She told me this was their family dessert they had when she was growing up. I now use it at times like these.

 I know, it has sugar. But it is brown sugar. I am not a fan of sugar anymore. I am learning to love Agave, coconut sugar, maple syrup and the REAL Stevia. So, you can adapt this recipe to use these other sugar replacements.

 Whole Food Oatmeal Crunch with Whipped Cream

 Ingredients:

• 1 cup oatmeal
•  1/4 cup cashews (or you nut of choice) 
• 1/4 cup brown sugar (coconut sugar, Agave- not sure of the measurements yet) 
• 1/2 cube butter plus another dab 
• Cinnamon stick grated to desired taste 
• Homemade whipped cream 

How to make:

Take a medium sauce pan and heat it on medium heat on your stove top. Put in the butter and melt. Add the sugar until it is combined.






Grate the cinnamon stick into the mixture. This will cause the sugar and butter to foam up. Add the oatmeal. Stir it until oatmeal is covered. Add just a dab of butter to cause the oatmeal to stick together. The mixture will start to get golden brown. Take it off the heat and put it into a serving dish or container immediately. It will become hard after it cools down, so not a good idea to leave in the sauce pan. I know, I did it and had to soak my pan and lost most of the yummy sweetness.




When serving, top it off with homemade whipped cream. I have some pictures I took while in the process of making this. Thanks for checking me out!

This is fabulously good. Yum!!!