A small bowl of oatmeal topped with grated pear in warm evening light.

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A Little Bedtime Oatmeal

Name: A Little Bedtime Oatmeal
Prep time: 2 min
Cook time: 5 min
Total time: 7 min
Yield: 1 servings
Ingredients: 30g rolled oats; 200ml milk of choice; Half a pear, grated; 1 tsp honey or maple syrup

Half a breakfast portion on purpose. When dinner was at six and bed is at eleven, a small bowl of slow carbohydrate stops the night running out of fuel at 3am.

2 min prep · 5 min cook · 7 min in total · serves 1

What you need

30g rolled oats
200ml milk of choice
Half a pear, grated
1 tsp honey or maple syrup

What to do

1Simmer the oats and milk gently for five minutes, stirring now and then.
2Stir through the grated pear.
3Finish with the honey and eat it warm, lights low.

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