Favorite Oatmeal (with Kale) - Recipe

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Have you made kale for your kids yet? Here's what I do with our stash of kale cubes: Little Sweets eats this and no other oatmeal.

This oatmeal is so amazing for little ones because if they eat nothing else that is good for them the rest of the day, at least you know they had whole grains, green vegetables and fruit in their breakfast!

While we were traveling once, I tried to make her the microwaveable, sugared-up, flavored kind and she wouldn't touch it. She's 2 1/2 and she's been eating this several times a week for more than a year now.

(In case you're wondering, I don't like any kind of oatmeal. Except for my friend Susan's Amish Baked Oatmeal, which may get its own post one day.)

Ingredients for Favorite Oatmeal (with Kale):
adapted from the Super Baby Food book

3 cups water
2 cups old-fashioned rolled oats

1 frozen kale cube

1/2 cup natural applesauce

1/4 teaspoon cinnamon

A note on the applesauce: Check the ingredient list on the applesauce that you buy. Unless it's the "natural" applesauce, it probably has some extra ingredients that are definitely not necessary. Natural applesauce will be made of just apples and is obviously preferable if you're the kind of person that puts kale into your oatmeal. =)

Bring water to a boil. Add the oats and lower the heat to medium. Cook for 5 minutes, stirring occasionally and watching to make sure it doesn't boil over. In the last 2 minutes of cooking, add a frozen kale cube.

Remove from heat; add applesauce and cinnamon. Stir to combine.

This is a double-batch of oatmeal that lasts for several meals so I only make it once a week or so. Store in an air-tight container in the refrigerator.

If you make it, I'd love to hear what you and your kids think!