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Instant Pot Steel Cut Oatmeal

On By JillIn Meal Prep, Recipes, Weight LossLeave a comment

Happy New Year! I’m trying to start this year off on the right foot and that includes making healthy, filling foods that are low in points/calories. This oatmeal recipe is super easy to make and is so good.

  • Add 1 cup of steel cut oats and 3 cups of low calorie unsweetened almond milk to your instant pot with a dash of salt.
  • Set to pressure cook on high for 10 minutes. 
  • When the time is up, carefully release the pressure and then stir. Let is sit for about five minutes after stirring with the lid on to thicken up a bit.
  • Serve and add cinnamon or whatever toppings you’d like.

This makes 4 one cup servings at 4 WW points each.
My husband loves this as well, so we’ll both have a bowl and I’ll save the other two portions in glass bowls in the fridge to quickly reheat the next day.

Recipe courtesy of Fit Foodie Finds: https://fitfoodiefinds.com/10-minute-instant-pot-steel-cut-oats-video/

Day 2 – Small Changes

On By JillIn Recipes, Weight Loss, Writing3 Comments

First things first – how did I do with my two baby step goals?  Not terrible, but not great.  I did drink at least 64 ounces of water if coffee counts.  I think coffee with no cream or sugar should definitely count.  I’m normally a “have a little coffee with my cream and sugar” kind of person.  So, the fact that I had two cups of coffee today, both with only Truvia to sweeten it and no cream at all is progress to me.  I only had two packs of Truvia in each coffee too, which some people think is way too much, but I quite like my two packets thank you very much.   Maybe I’ll work my way down to one packet in the future, but come on.  I normally have at least 4 Tbsp of creamer and a couple Truvia and maybe even a little sugar on top of that.   You know what was really cool about the coffee I had today, I could actually taste the coffee!  🙂

So, next baby step goal – FitBit steps – not as great.   As of right now I’m a little over 5,000 steps.  I’ll get in some more before bed, but I doubt I’ll hit the 7,000 mark.  Oh well, I won’t let it get me down.  Tomorrow is a new day to try again!

I did get a little bit of workout time in tonight.  I’m doing online personal training.  She posts videos each day and I’m supposed to follow along doing as much of it as I can.  I did almost half of it tonight.  I didn’t stop because I couldn’t finish.  I stopped because my five year wanted all of my attention and I was trying to check on the dinner that I was cooking at the same time.   My arms are already sore and tomorrow I probably won’t be able to wave at anyone.  But that’s good, right?

Now, on to dinner.  I know I’m trying to do a low carb and make healthier choices, but I had bought all of the stuff to make tonight’s dinner before the New Year and I wanted to go ahead and try it out.   It was actually really good!  It was definitely not low carb though.  It was a dish called Chicken & Noodles that was sort of a cross between chicken and dumplings and chicken noodle soup.  It had the consistency of chicken and dumplings, only with noodles instead.  I made it in the instant pot and it was a one dish, super easy meal.

Instant Pot Chicken & Noodles 

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Ingredients
  • 2 small cans cream of chicken soup
  • 2 small cans chicken broth
  • 1 stick of butter
  • 1 lb frozen chicken breasts
  • 1 24 ounce package of Rheams frozen egg noodles
Steps
  • Put chicken in Instant Pot first
  • Pour in the 2 cans of soup, chicken broth and butter on top
  • Put the lid on the Instant Pot and use poultry setting for 15 minutes
  • Natural Pressure release
  • Pull chicken out and shred
  • Put chicken back into broth and add the bag of frozen noodles
  • Stir and put lid back on pot
  • Set the Instant Pot to the Soup setting for 5 min.
  • When complete, use quick release, but very slowly to avoid starchy spray

This is the recipe that I used but I made a couple of changes.

After cooking the chicken, I left it out while I cooked the noodles.  After reading a few reviews I decided to cook the noodles for 9 minutes instead of 5 and they turned out great.  After cooking the noodles I added the shredded chicken back to the pot and mixed everything up.   My husband and my five year old LOVED it.  Both of them had a second helping.

Alright, that’s enough for today.  I need get a few more steps in before bed.  Goodnight, all!   See you tomorrow!