I don’t know how my family transitioned into a less processed diet without our family’s staple raw breakfast: raw oatmeal. Made from oat groats, apples and dates, I was inspired to create this porridge from my old Muesli recipe. It really is delicious and when first transitioning into a more unprocessed and raw based diet, my husband would lovingly say, “I don’t want the cooked oatmeal, I want to eat the RAW oatmeal”.
When Karen Ranzi, author of Creating Healthy Children through Attachment Parenting and Raw Foods, had breakfast at our house one day, she wrote down the recipe immediately after eating two bowls. She said it would be the first thing she would make for her family when she returned home.
Needless to say, we eat it at least once a week. I hope you and your family enjoy it too!
Soak overnight, rinse and drain well:
2 cups raw oat groats (if you can’t find whole oat groats, you can use steel cut or rolled oats but these are not raw)
Blend in food processor (chunkier) or high speed blender (smoother and creamier) with about 1 cup of water and the rest of the ingredients:
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tbspn lemon juice
1 cup dates, seeded
1 cup raw nuts, soaked overnight, rinsed and drained (optional)
3 apples, cored, no need to peel
Serve topped with other seasonal fruit (optional).
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o.k I’m going to make this. we love oatmeal in our home and this will be a good way to introduce some raw meals to our diet.
Damaris – Let me know if they like it. Your kids are so cute!
Made this this morning. My blender is pissed, it refused to work. So it turned out…. interesting
Oh Sara. Thank you for trying it out but I’m just so sorry to hear about your blender. Is it a high speed blender? I make it every week with my Vitamix. I also have done it with my food processor – it is chunkier and not as smooth, but it will still do the job.