Do you love a lazy weekend? My favorite thing to do when I don’t have to work is literally nothing. I briefly left my house to go to the bar, but mostly sat around, played silly games on my computer, did some baking, and watched Star Trek with a beer or two. Aside from the laundry I had to force myself into late Sunday, it was a perfectly relaxing weekend.
An integral part to my weekends is a delicious breakfast. I never have time on weekdays (read: I like sleeping as long as possible) to make a real breakfast and clean up after myself, so I try to do it up on Saturday and Sunday. I threw this all together after the bar on Friday, which should tell you how easy this is. I rolled out of bed on Saturday to the delicious smell of this cooking and breakfast was ready and waiting – perfection!
I topped with some extra slices of fresh banana and some unsweetened almond milk. I’m kicking myself now for not having whipped cream ready. This breakfast is already decadent (but healthy!) and that would make for one extra decadent breakfast! The pictures definitely do not do this dish justice. Brown, lumpy oatmeal apparently does not photograph well!
Tagged with: Cheap • Dairy Free • Egg Free • Gluten Free • Hidden Fruits • Nut Free • Slow Cooker • Soy Free • Vegan • Vegetarian
Do you think you could use pudding rice instead of steel oats
I’ll be honest — I have no idea what pudding rice is. This might be UK vs American English at work (when I tried to Google it, I could only find recipes for rice pudding). If you already have a slow cooker recipe you like with pudding rice, I would recommend just swapping in the brown sugar, cinnamon, and bananas for whatever other sweeteners/flavorings are added to that recipe.
Hi Kelly! I am a huge fan of your website and recipes! Especially this one! It’s so easy to prepare ahead of time and great to have on hand throughout the week. I was wondering if I could share this recipe in a newsletter for the West Virginia Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics? I will include your full name and blog address and can send you a copy of the newsletter when it is published. Just email me or comment back on your decision! Thank you!
Your breakfast recipes are so inspiring!!
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Can the recipe be doubled?
If you have a large slow cooker, yes feel free to double! Mine is one of the smaller sizes, so it would definitely overflow if I tried to add all of those ingredients.
This is going in the crock pot right now! I’ve been craving oatmeal which is highly unusual for me.
It must be the cold weather. I had a two week span of daily oatmeal when we had our first cold snap. let me know how breakfast turns out!
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Oh yum! This looks amazing. I wish I had a slow cooker!
I got mine online last year on Black Friday for $7 — a very worthwhile investment! You could still get all the flavors without the ease of the slow cooker if you cooked it on a stove top (just adjust fluid as necessary for cooking on the stove, follow package instructions for cook time and temp but throw in the bananas, etc from the get go)
This looks delicious! Could it work with another type of oatmeal? I don’t have steel cut but want to make this (& I have 3 containers of quick cook oats) 🙂
steel cut oats take much longer to cook than quick oats., so I’m unsure how long they would take in a slow cookers. I’d suggest cooking the quick oats according to package instructions (for the time and amount of water/milk), but throwing in the extra ingredients.
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I need to try this! I love oatmeal.
What would be a good alternative for the almond milk?
Any kind of nondairy milk will work (I haven’t tried cows milk, but it’d probably be okay too). If you’d rather, you can sub it out for more water, but you will lose a little of the creaminess.
What a beautiful idea to use oatmeal in a slowcooker !
It looks heavenly good 🙂
Thanks! It’s so so convenient!
It’s hard to get excited about oatmeal, but this is one that I would definitely look forward to eating in the morning! 😀
If you weren’t excited yet, the smell in the morning would definitely get you interested. My whole house smelled fantastic!
I have to say, I love doing nothing also. And I love fun weekend breakfasts! This bananas foster sounds awesome!
Ooohh this oatmeal looks so good! It’s perfect for a cold Saturday morning.
It definitely made my chilly Saturday all the better!
This recipe is awesome! Great photography too Kelly!
I wish I could take credit for the pictures… any time they look nice, it’s because Josh took them
This looks delicious! I’m always looking for new ways to dress up oatmeal!
I need to try this! It sounds yummy. I must add steel cut oats to my list!
Let me know if you try it out!
Oatmeal perfection!! I want that for my next breakfast!!
Yum! I needed this breakfast this morning. I guess there’s always tomorrow!
Tomorrow is the perfect day to have this for breakfast 😉 I polished off my left overs this morning, so I might need to make more tonight
This sounds so easy and delicious!! Definitely need to try this for breakfast soon. Yummy!
Bananas and oatmeal happen to be two of my favorite breakfast foods, so I’m loving this recipe! The photos are mouthwatering – – great little twist to make a healthy breakfast taste more like a dessert! 🙂
I’m glad you like the photos (though, I’m not the one who can take credit for them!) I was afraid brown mush pile wouldnt translate well across the interwebs.
I’ve never had oatmeal from my slow cooker, but it looks like time to start! I love lazy weekends too and making delicious breakfasts…yum 🙂
I love making oatmeal in the slow cooker! I hardly have the chance to do it anymore, but when I do have some time – there is quite nothing like it. 🙂 And I love bananas foster! This is a must try breakfast girl!
So yummy! I can’t believe I haven’t made oatmeal in my slow cooker yet!
You should definitely try it! It’s so little effort but definitely tastes like a lot of work.
Making oatmeal in a slow cooker sounds really awesome and convenient, especially since I am always in a rush in the morning! This would certainly same me a little extra time in the a.m. Plus, any breakfast that focuses on bananas is a major win in my book :).
I think you can tell from my last several posts being very banana heavy (plus at least one more on the way) that I’m obsessed with banana breakfasts 😀
I never thought about slow cooking my oatmeal! Such a good idea. I think the photos look great. I can tell the texture of the steel cut oatmeal. It looks awesome 🙂 I make overnight brown rice porriage like this all the time!