Meatless Monday Lazy Win!

To me, Brinner pretty much always involves eggs. Sometimes they are in french toast form, sometimes an egg bake or omelet, sometimes just straight up classic-grandma's-cheesy-eggs. Tonight we did Brinner, sans the eggs.

Due to an extended "You have to go potty!" battle with Little Bear, I was running a little behind on dinner prep for the night. Actually, come 5 o'clock, I hadn't even decided what we would have apart from the fact that I was determined to stick to the Meatless Monday deal. Brinner is easy but we had all had eggs for breakfast and there is a limit to how many eggs one family should consume in a day. So what to do? Zero time, limited creativity flowing and must be meatless.

You know you miss having more Wilford Brimley in your life.

Oatmeal. 

Man, I love me some delicious oatmeal. Not the instant from a packet stuff (I'd demolish that too though), but from the stove oatmeal with delicious mix-ins. 

Oatmeal usually falls into the cereal category and as a cereal is always ruled out as a dinner food because, well, now we have a child. Our days of eating cereal for dinner went out the window when Little Bear started eating solids. Tonight, I reconsidered.

When we have oatmeal for breakfast, we usually have a variety of mix-ins to choose from. Milk, fruit, raisins, etc. So when I got to thinking about it, I realized it's a damn balanced meal. Cook it up!

10 minutes later, bam! Meatless Monday done and Brinner revamp! 

AND since I wrote this up, it's no longer a great example of me being lazy, just good blog fodder. Happy Monday, all!