Groovy Mom | Baked Oatmeal (aka Oatmeal Pie)

March 15, 2006

Baked Oatmeal (aka Oatmeal Pie)

Here's a recipe for Baked Oatmeal, otherwise known as Oatmeal Pie. I found this recipe years ago when on Weight Watchers and loved it so much that it is a staple in our house. But now when I make it, I add flax seeds and if I have some Grape Nuts, I throw a handful of those in, too. You can get all kinds of crazy with this recipe. Since I'm more low-carb than Points now, I also just use whole eggs (so in recipe below I'd use probably 1 whole egg). You can sub some SF vanilla syrup for some of the milk and leave out the extract... like I said. Be creative.

Oh yeah, and here's the recipe:

Ingredients

2 cups uncooked oatmeal
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup of fat-free milk
3 egg whites (or 1/2 cup egg substitute)
1/2 cup canned pumpkin
5 packets of Splenda No Calorie Sweetener (or other no calorie sweetener)
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 tsp ground cinnamon
1/2 cup raisins

DIRECTIONS:
Oven 325

Combine dry ingredients and add wet ingredients. Pour into pie dish that has been sprayed with non-stick spray. Bake about 25 min. Let cool, eat or store in fridge/freezer.

NOTE: I have also made this recipe ahead by combining the dry stuff, putting it in a container and then doing the wet stuff in a seperate container, then combining it in the morning and baking it
quick for the kids to eat before school. It works great.

POINTS:
Points per serving: 5

Serves: 4

**You can also cut the pie into 8 pieces, yielding wedges that are 2.5 Points each. Also, if you omit the raisins,
you can take off 4 more points. But, as a whole, they don't add too many points.