Vegan Nutty Fruity Fun Oatmeal

I really don't consume enough oats so today I wanted to have it for breakfast instead of my usual breakfast which is whatever I would eat for dinner or lunch.

I wanted to prepare something quick but less boring than just the regular oatmeal that many people have. Since I don't consume very much sugar except for in some sauces and the occasional desert, the sweetness for this would come from dates. I blended some date puree with almond milk into a thick but still runny sauce which I kept warm while cooking the oatmeal. I added cinnamon, salt, and vanilla to the date mixture. The oatmeal was a simple mixture of plain water oats, ground flax, cooked with a little salt.

For another topping I made a peanut butter and banana mash with a little added cinnamon and vanilla.

The final sauce would be a simple puree of fresh strawberries and pineapple.

With the banana peanut butter mash on top and the sweet date sauce on the bottom along with the tart fruity sauce, it was the perfect sweetness. Plus the peanut butter has sugar in it. I would have used almond butter for a healthier dish but peanut butter was there on the counter so I used it.

It was sprinkled with ground almonds sunflower seeds and a few peanuts.