This is my entry for Fight Back Fridays!

Those of you who read my blog regularly know I love breakfast – scones, french toast. But I don’t have time to eat that every day. So what do I eat every day?

Raw oatmeal, with a myriad of additions.

This is not for everyone, trust me. The taste of raw oats takes a little getting used to. But it is loaded with fiber, probiotics, and antioxidants. It’s low-fat, low glycemic index, and gluten-free. I’ve got the routine down and can have it ready to walk out the door within 5 minutes flat. I keep all the non-refrigerated ingredients in a drawer together, so I don’t have to go looking for them.

You can mix it up with other fibers, other nuts, other fruit, skip the Coconut Butter, however you want it. Use a non-dairy kefir or non-dairy yogurt. I’ve used both soy and coconut milk yogurt.

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My mother says this is her last meal. If she could pick anything at all, she’d pick lobster salad, lettuce, tomato, and bacon on toast. It’s hard to disagree with her. This was really, really good. And easy. I got home at 8 o’clock last night, and had dinner on the table at 8:30. I did, I admit, make the lobster salad ahead of time. It’s a great leftover from grilled lobster tail. Just steam an extra one.

I got the idea for the herb-caper mayonnaise from Wine Bar Food: Mediterranean Flavors to Crave with Wines to Match by Cathy and Tony Mantuano. If you don’t own this book, it has to be because you don’t know about it. I swear, I may never eat a real dinner again after reading it.

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Chocolate-cherry whole wheat scones. I could eat these every day. One of these days, I will share with you what I really do eat every morning. But these are my special treat. In my freezer, there is a bag of frozen raw scones, so I can always have melty, tender, warm scones right out of the oven. A cappuccino on the side. Now that’s breakfast. Also try the Blueberry-Meyer Lemon scones!

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