Nutritional Analysis of Baked Oatmeal.

[Clarity]

Okay, so thanks to KristenK I did the nutritional analysis of my version of the baked oatmeal. I'm glad I did, I learned a few things. For example, I will no longer be using canola oil or oil of any kind in my recipe! I'm swapping it all out with applesauce. Secondly, I reduced my sugar totals by adding applejuice for sweetner. The oatmeal isn't very sweet at all, but I find it still very good and I think I'll continue to reduce the amount of sugar. Finally, as you can see, my inclusion of wheat germ and flax meal packs a caloric punch.

5 cups oats 1500 15
2 cups fat free plain yog. 220 0
2 cup warm water
4 eggs 218 15
½ cup sugar free applesauce 50
½ cup canola blend oil 964 109
½ cup demerara sugar 387
½ cup 100% apple juice 58
1 tbsp baking powder
1 tbsp cinnamon
2 apples 210 1
¼ cup wheat germ 400 8
¼ cup flaxseed 480 36
1 tsp van
1 ½ cup blueberries 105
1 cup skim milk 80
Total 4672 184
Servings 14 14
Per Serving 333 13


ETA: my formatting didn't take. The first number is calories, the second is fat grams.
ETA: grams!

[o_mom]

Is the fat in grams?

[Clarity]

Yes! Should have mentioned that, thanks.

[Momof3Labs]

Another thing: I tried making it with steel cut oats last week. It's not as good, and steel cut oats have a lot more calories than rolled oats (though the recipe results in a few more servings)!

[sidmand]

I tried it with steel cut oats too (but I also didn't have any baking powder, so I wasn't sure what did what!). It was okay. Very dry though...it did come out much much better when I made it *right.*

Debbie
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[kristenk]

I made muffin versions of the oatmeal tonight. I used the regular recipe, but didn't add any berries. I made large "muffins" and they were a great serving size. They didn't puff up too much (but I didn't expect them to).

My absolute, very favorite thing about them, though, was that I could customize the fruit! For DD, I skipped the berries completely. For the others, I did blueberries, raspberries, or a mix of blueberries and raspberries. Totally fantastic!

I still have a bunch of the batter to work with so it looks like I'll be making lots of "muffins" tonight. Oh, and I used a silicone muffin pan. I thought it would be easier to get out of that.

I'm going to try to freeze them next. Has anyone done that?

[hellbennt]

call me dense but I have a coupla questions :9


>For example, I will no longer be using canola oil
>or oil of any kind in my recipe! I'm swapping it all out with
>applesauce.

so you will use 1 cup apple sauce?

>Secondly, I reduced my sugar totals by adding
>applejuice for sweetner.

so cut out demerara sugar altogether & use 1/2 cup of apple juice or, more apple juice?

Thanks :-)

Finally, as you can see, my
>inclusion of wheat germ and flax meal packs a caloric punch.
>
>
>5 cups oats 1500 15
>2 cups fat free plain yog. 220 0
>2 cup warm water
>4 eggs 218 15
>½ cup sugar free applesauce 50
>½ cup canola blend oil 964 109
>½ cup demerara sugar 387
>½ cup 100% apple juice 58
>1 tbsp baking powder
>1 tbsp cinnamon
>2 apples 210 1
>¼ cup wheat germ 400 8
>¼ cup flaxseed 480 36
>1 tsp van
>1 ½ cup blueberries 105
>1 cup skim milk 80
>Total 4672 184
>Servings 14 14
>Per Serving 333 13
>
>
>ETA: my formatting didn't take. The first number is
>calories, the second is fat grams.
>ETA: grams!
>


~laura in miami~
ds1 7/03
ds2 7/06

[Clarity]

Yes, I think I'm going to eliminate the 1/2 cup of oil and substitute it with applesauce. So, I'll use 1 cup of applesauce total.

As for the sugar, you're right, I was a bit confusing, wasn't I? I'm going to continue following the ingredients above in which I used 1/2 cup of sugar and 1/2 cup of apple juice. I think the 1/2 cup of sugar is necessary but the original recipe called for 1 cup (of some type of sweetner). I think it tastes fine, although not overly sweet without the full cup.