This is your new favorite breakfast.
Or rather, my new favorite breakfast.
This delicious breakfast recipe is super–filling (and keeps you full for a long time), and it’s extremely easy and quick to prepare.
I don’t usually eat the same thing for breakfast more than two days in a row, because there are way too many delicious Healthy Breakfast Recipes out there (pancakes! oatmeal! waffles!). But this one’s so good that it’s all I’ve been craving the last four days.
Pumpkin Bread in a Bowl
(can be gluten-free)
Inspired by Banana Bread Cereal.
- 1/3 c canned pumpkin (or cooked pumpkin or sweet potato puree)
- 3/4 c milk of choice
- 1 cup flake cereal (I like spelt flakes, but bran, corn, etc will work. Some people have even used oatmeal!)
- 1/4 to 1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- 1/8 tsp salt
- sweetener (such as stevia, sugar, or even maple syrup)
- optional: chocolate chips, pecans
Blend all ingredients together. The cereal will have a thin consistency at first, but if you leave it in the fridge (after blending) for even just 10 minutes, it starts to get really thick! I usually make it before I run, and it’s the consistency of thick pudding by the time I return.
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If you’re using the optional pecans or chocolate chips, you can either blend them right in or sprinkle them on top after serving.
Above, swirled with Vegan Cool Whip.
I like to blend things: Any things. All things. When you blend a bunch of ingredients, the individual flavors fuse together, for one amazing new taste. By blending this recipe, you get pumpkin, vanilla, spice, and crunch all in one delicious spoonful. I swear, one of these days I’m going to try blending a pb&j sandwich…
You little pumpkin temptress…
On an unrelated note – I’ve had a horrible past 2 days…one of my birds (we have 3 – now 2 and a dog…) escaped when our smoke detector went off – it was my fault…a pan on the stove started smoking – the fire alarm went off – the 2 cockatiels were out of their cage – and in a panick – I opened the door to put the smoking pan outside and the male flew over my head.
There is more to the story – but it is too sad…and I have the heaviest heart.
I wanted to thank you for you and your site – today as my eyes are swollen from crying, and I feel like nothing can make me smile – you do.
Thank you Katie – for a ray of sunshine on a very cloudy day.
– Natasha
Aww Natasha, I am sending you HUGE hugs. I had a parrot once, and I was inconsolable when she died. I still miss her every day. Birds are amazing creatures, and I am so so sorry. 🙁
Oh Natasha! I am SO sorry about your bird! I hope he comes back- you never know- all manner of pets come back after time, its always in the news. Never give up hope though! Not to mention somehow, some way, pets always know their way back home! Hugs and more hugs
Katie – you are so sweet…
Thank you
I really need to try and find some canned pumpkin! Does anyone in the UK know where you can get it?
If you can’t find any, you could always buy a real pumpkin and cook it :). Then just puree the flesh… and you can even freeze it for later!
Hi Jenn, I’m living in the UK at the moment and the only canned pumpkin I have ever seen was from a package my mom sent me. I saw a while ago that Waitrose had some Libby’s canned pumpkin on their website, however as Katie said you could get yourself a sugar pumpkin and roast it yourself, or since I can’t find many pumpkins where I am here, I use butternut squash that I cut in half and roast and then scoop out the insides. Makes an acceptable stand-in!
But I’d check out Waitrose, however my mom said it’s been hard to find it back home this year again. Hope this helps!
I usually don’t prefer to blend things just because I love having the individual tastes and textures. For example I’d rather eat a big bowl of yogurt topped with berries, some cereal, peanut butter etc.. than take all those and blend it into a uniformed smoothie. Just my preference…. but this still looks totally delicious and gorgeous pictures of it, as always!
Since when are chocolate chips on this blog optional 🙂 ? I love blending. and cutting. and tearing. and smushing. and mashing. And anything that allows me to take chances, make mistakes, and get messy! No, i was NOT watching Magic School Bus while eating my breakfast and singing the theme song all day cuz that’s um… totally accurate. I would loooooooove me some blended nutella sandwich 🙂
yum! what an interesting, and quite frankly delicious looking, idea!!!
pumpkin bread is amazingggg. and cool whip would make an awesome addition 🙂
What a great idea! I love that you used cereal in it!
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I think you’ll find it tasty and yummy 🙂
This looks absolutely delicious, I mean wouldn’t anything with pumpkin be good? I can’t wait to try this! 🙂
YOU are wonderful! I love the things you come up with and your energy.
YUM!!! Pumpkin pie in a bowl. But heck, why just eat pumpkin pie for dessert? Pumpkin is healthy, right? Might as well eat pumpkin pie all day long…. 😀
P.S. you should definitely try the pb&j blended….tell me if it’s as good as it sounds. I’m too chicken to try first.
What a perfect, filling fall breakfast! Love it!
I LOVE your banana bread in a bowl so much, and I think I’ll love this EVEN MORE!! I am making a trip to get some pumpkin at the weekend so I can make this and your pumpkin bars! Mmm this would be SO GOOD with a crumbled one on top! 😀
I am also a huge fan of blending things! I think I can blend anything. Blended soups taste so much better than the unblended stuff. Blended oatmeal is something totally different than the old boring regular oats. We should start a blending club 😀
love the blending club idea. I’m a new convert to healthy smoothies (vs. the ones they sell at the frou frou shops) and I’m loving these ideas!
Looks great! I finally found pumpkin yesterday at Target (and had to walk 2 miles with 35 pounds of groceries, thanks in part to these large cans) and can’t wait to make this!
Clever! Yes, you may be right…new favorite breakfast! I will let you know. 🙂
Oh wow! I wish I could track down some canned pumpkin here in Ireland 🙁
When I was studying abroad in Dublin over the summer I found some canned pumpkin at the Donnybrook Fair grocery stores… do you have those near you? They might have some!
Do you have butternut squash? It might even be better (butternut has a similar but richer flavor to me).
Sweet potato pie with the right spices added tastes much like pumpkin pie. Maybe try a puree of sweet potatoes.
I read that in an Irish accent. c:
Try cooked sweet potato. I kinda like it more than the pumpkin.
You should use pumpkin pie spice instead of only cinnamon! Yum. It looks so decadent.
I try to call for the easiest ingredients whenever possible, because I want EVERYone to be able to make my recipes ;). I actually do use pumpkin pie spice for this lol!