And a recipe popped up!!
Whether you are new or not to the WW realm; you'll notice that a lot of people look for ways to make low point comfort foods. One of the big deals is a recipe for banana pancakes. What you do is mash a very ripe banana into mush and add an egg, mix well and cook like you would a pancake and TA-DA - you have a 0 point pancake on the blue or purple plan (2 pts for green). Don't expect it to taste like a regular pancake, but many like it. I'm of the group that doesn't.....I even took advice of others and added some self-rising flour to give it more of a pancake feel....but no, it wasn't for me. This week I happened to remember a pancake I use to make when I did the classic points and points plus plans and I made it yesterday for breakfast and again this morning:
Sorry I took a bite before taking the photo and yes I was having breakfast in bed!
I'm not very good when it come to flipping things, but this pancake is thick enough that even an idiot like me can flip it, lol!! I don't remember where I originally got the recipe, whether it was from a meeting, a blog, or some random website; but it was a staple for breakfast for quite a while. Recipe?
1/4 cup of uncooked oatmeal (I use quick oats)
1 egg
1 tbsp skim milk
1 pack of sweetener of choice
Mix it together and cook like you would a pancake.
I'm going to give some advice here. When you pour it in the pan, the oatmeal will kind of sit in one spot while the liquid will spread out. Spread the oatmeal out with the liquid. Also, you are definitely going to have an oatmeal texture when eating, if that's not your thing...put your quarter cup of oats in a blender and blend it to a powder. I have never done that, but certainly you can; as a matter of fact if you plan on doing that I would think you could just put all ingredients in the blender to mix it together. ***UPDATE*** This morning I mixed the ingredients together and let it sit while I dried my hair and put my make-up on (approximately 10 minutes). This gave the oats time to absorb in some of the liquid, making the oatmeal texture after cooking not as textury (is that a word, lol?). So that could be an option also if you're bothered by the texture. It also stayed with the liquid when I poured it into the pan and there was no need to spread the oatmeal out. ALSO- I forgot to put the sweetener in, and it tasted just fine with the syrup!
I eat mine with 1/4 cup sugar free syrup and a banana; but you can have yours with whatever you like! The oatcake itself comes to 2 pts on Blue, 4 pts on green, and 0 pts on purple.
