Some foods just taste better when they’re together. Almond butter and honey. Macaroni and cheese. Chocolate and… well… everything 😉 I’ve done a few posts where I’ve talked about some of my favourite foodie combos, but seeing as the last one was waaaaaay back in November, I figure it’s time for another. So for today’s What I Ate Wednesday, I give you this AND that… take 2.
Breakfast… [ oatmeal AND yogurt ]
If you’ve never stirred a couple spoonfuls of yogurt into cooked oats before, you need to get on that. Seriously. Do it right now. I’ll wait. What’s that you say? You’re not hungry? You’re not at home? Pft… fiiiiiiine… you can just listen to me ramble on about how much I love this combo instead. I’m not a huge fan of using yogurt in things like overnight oats, but cooked oats are a whole other story. I actually can’t even remember the last time I had oats without yogurt — I live for the creamy tanginess. Throw some ground flax, cinnamon, and almond butter on top, and I’m a happy camper.
Morning snack… [ dates AND almond butter ]
So simple, so good — nature sure does know her candy. This obsession is actually getting a little out of hand… I can literally polish off an entire bag of dried fruit in a day if I’m not careful… and we’re not even going to talk about the amount of almond butter that accompanies that. The supply I brought back from my trip to Cali? It’s now short two jars. Ahem. 😯
Lunch… [ sweet AND salty ]
Still snack plating, still loving it. I tend to vary what I toss on them from day to day (this one has: Dr. Kracker crispbread, deli chicken, kabocha, carrots, cherry tomatoes, almonds & raisins, and cottage cheese & jam), but one thing remains constant — there’s always something sweet, and there’s always something salty. I’m a huge fan of the combo in general, but I find that I always need to have a little something sweet with my lunch or I just don’t feel satisfied.
Afternoon snack… [ coffee AND chocolate ]
I realize this looks nothing like a typical cup of coffee with a side of chocolate, but if you caught the thick and creamy chocolate smoothie recipe I posted yesterday, you may have noticed that I sometimes toss a teaspoon of instant coffee granules into the mix. Not only does the coffee enhance the chocolate flavour, but it adds a nice little caffeine boost on the days when I feel myself dragging in the afternoon.
Dinner… [ noodles AND stir fry ]
I’d normally say noodles AND butter AND parmesan cheese (favourite combo since I was a kid), but these are leftovers from Sunday’s family dinner, and apparently my parents don’t think that eating plain buttered noodles is an acceptable meal. Pfffft. Whatever. Mom still makes a mean stir fry.
Evening snack… [ cereal AND milk ]
Unlike last week’s crazy late night soup snack (yeah I have no idea either), this week’s evening snack is a lot more Amanda-ish. Cereal and milk. I normally get all fancy with my cereal bowls and toss in things like yogurt, fruit, and nut butter, but I just wanted something simple last night, so I went with plain old milk… aaaaand 3 different cereals (Raisin Bran, cinnamon Puffins, Kashi Cinnamon Harvest) because I’m apparently incapable of keeping things that simple. I always forget how good cereal with milk is — have to write myself a sticky note to remember.
And that’s it for me today, friends! I’ll see you guys tomorrow for Thinking Out Loud! 😀
Your turn!!
a) Oatmeal AND _____.
b) Dates AND _____.
c) Coffee AND _____.
d) Noodles AND _____.
e) Cereal AND _____.
f) (do you prefer your cereal soggy or crunchy?)
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a) Oatmeal AND Brown Sugar. I am obsessed with this combo
b) Dates AND Peanut butter. My Grandma used to stuff the dates and roll them in sugar 🙂
c) Coffee AND a microwave muffin. <3
d) Noodles AND butter (duh) 😉
e) Cereal AND yogurt
f) I love crunchy cereal – good thing as I really don't like milk (at all)
Oh my goodness I loooove oatmeal with yogurt. I haven’t had oatmeal sans yogurt in so long… I love the creaminess of it. But I basically will add yogurt or cottage cheese to anything that stands still!
I will take up your order and try greek yogurt in my oatmeal tomorrow morning. I love creamy oats, so I think this will be perfect. 🙂
I can’t find dates anywhere. I am really missing out. *le sigh..*
I love jam and cottage cheese. I don’t know what it is, but it just gives off a salty sweet flavor to me. 🙂
I am obsessed with coffee and chocolate right now. 😀
Milk and cereal will forever be a favorite.
I am one of those people that always loves to try crazy combos! For the most part though I like to keep it pretty simple.
1 – Oatmeal AND salt! I grew up with my Scottish Dad making porridge with just oats, water and a pinch of salt. It tastes so good! I still love my oats like that, just these days I top them with sweet toppings like banana and nut butter. A perfect sweet/salty combo!
2 – Dates AND tahini with a pinch of salt. Again with the salt! I feel like the deep taste of the tahini and a little salt brings out the sweetness in the date and it tastes so goo! (even better if you microwave for 10 seconds (; )
3 – Coffee AND nothing because I’m allergic to caffeine )’:
4 – Noodles AND well this question confuses me, as in Australia noodles are strictly an Asian food that you have with stir frys, etc. but I think that you also call pasta noodles? Because I wouldn’t have Asian noodles with butter and cheese. Anyway, if it were the Asian type it would have to be ramen, and the pasta type would have to be a traditional spaghetti bolognaise.
5 – Cereal AND banana! I just love the combo!
6 – I can never decide how I like my cereal. It kind of changes everyday!
I adore adding a pinch of salt to my oats! I do it every morning, and I definitely noticed a huge difference in taste when I couldn’t do it while I was on vacation. Gonna have to start packing a cinnamon shaker AND a salt shaker when I travel…
Granola and yogurt.
Dates and blue cheese.
Coffee and cream.
Noodles and anything really.
Cereal and fruit. I love to add fresh berries to my cereal, along with my almond milk.
Your moms stir fry looks fantastic. I’d like a bowl of that.
Love coffee + chocolate
a) Oatmeal AND peanut butter – like everyone else in the world here
b) Dates – chopped and mixed in to make cookies/balls ?? 🙂
c) Coffee AND girl scout samoa creamer — obsessed
d) Noodles AND peanut butter.. again? Lol I love soba noodles and PB at sushi places so good..
e) Cereal AND yogurt
f) Crunchy !!!!!!
i’ve been putting dates and turkish apricots on everything… yogurt, smoothie, almond butter, and oatmeal. yep. but not coffee,. I’ll stop there
Dates… and coconut butter for me! But, I have to say, I may be swayed to the almond butter side too. Yum!! All of your eats look great as usual! 🙂
This is why we are twinning. So much similarities! Cooked oats and yogurt is my standard method and sweet and salty? Always have to be present. Snack plate lunches make me jelly…. I want to have that instead of my boring Tupperware.
Sea salt on ALL things sweet- legit!
You can always start a new trend with a snack Tupperware lunch 😉
oatmeal and almond butter!
dates & almond butter!
EVERYTHING with almond butter!
a) Oatmeal AND fruit and coconut
b) Dates AND _____. (Haven’t really ever had dates. I should probably change that)
c) Coffee AND nothing. Coffee is delicious just as it is.
d) Noodles AND tomato sauce.
e) Cereal AND anything! Fruit, raisans, coconut, cinnamon, nut butter.
f) I hate soggy cereal. SO gross. I am all about the crunchy foods. Today I had a scone that was super dry and the edges were crunchy, I LOVED it.
Dates AND chocolate!
My husband and I semi-argue about this all the time: I eat my cereal dry! Is that weird?? I think because when I was younger I didn’t like milk, and it just stuck!
Love all of those combinations, and especially the mason jar at the end 🙂
Definitely not weird — I love dry cereal! Just give me a box and I’m a happy camper. Actually… don’t give me a box… it’ll be gone before I know it 😆
I do love a bit of yoghurt with oats, its the hot and cold combo I love there!
Macaroni and cheese for the win! Also, butter and rice. Don’t knock it til you try it!
YES YES YES dates and almond butter. HOLY YES. I cannot put them down. Coffee always needs a cookie..always.
Definitely going to get on that oatmeal and yogurt, sounds good!
a) Oatmeal AND peanut butter.
b) Dates AND I dunno? Never been a huge date fan…
c) Coffee AND chocolate (I’m with you on that one!).
d) Noodles AND chicken – like chicken noodle soup but thick & creamy!
e) Cereal AND milk.
f) Crunchy! and i like the flavored milk at the end 🙂
Crunchy!
The best trick is to pour your milk before the cereal… don’t know how this works but it somehow makes the crunch last longer.
Fl0aters! 😆
Your actually the one who has turned me on to oatmeal and yogurt! Its becoming a problem. Especially when there is almond butter involved. Dates and strawberries! I like to stuff the strawberries with dates when Im not feeling lazy but if I am then I just take a bite of date and take a bite of strawberry. Coffee and cinnamon; on its own, in dessert seriously that combo rocks. Noodles and Im going to be boring and say spaghetti. Seriously can’t go wrong with that one. I actually haven’t had cereal in a while.. I used to love it and I think I kind of over did it; but I know I liked it with almond milk and banana and it HAS to be crunchy. Seriously the minute I pour the milk I am going to town on that sucker.
Lately I’ve been putting cottage cheese in my oats too. You HAVE to try it! I adds a ton of creaminess! Cottage cheese + jam is the BOMB. Especially with my grandma’s homemade jam… mmmm 🙂 and I guess I’m now obsessed with cottage cheese. Go figure. I also put it in my pasta. Trust me, it’s good.
Yes to coffee and chocolate! (and pb and chocolate, or strawberries and chocolate, or pretzels and chocolate, or wine and chocolate… okay – I’m done now. haha)
a) Oatmeal AND BERRIES
b) Dates AND GREEK YOGURT
c) Coffee AND CINNAMON
d) Noodles AND BRUSSEL SPROUTS
e) Cereal AND PEANUT BUTTER
f) (do you prefer your cereal soggy or crunchy?) Definitely prefer the crunch!
a) Oatmeal AND mustard.
b) Dates AND spaghetti sauce.
c) Coffee AND brown rice.
d) Noodles AND jelly.
e) Cereal AND tuna.
And I really hope you know I’m joking and kept your breakfast down. LOL 😉
😆 I didn’t catch on at first because I can -totally- see oatmeal and mustard working in something like savoury oats. And is it weird that I would actually consider eating noodles with jelly just to see what it’s like? I just so happen to have both in my fridge right now too. Oooohhh tempting.
a) Oatmeal AND banananananas 😀
b) Dates AND dried apricots! Sugar rush yummm!
c) Coffee AND creamer!
d) Noodles AND ricotta cheese! (If we’re talking about regular pasta noodles :P)
e) Cereal AND yogurt! Mmmm
f) do you prefer your cereal soggy or crunchy?: Crunchy all the way! My heart breaks a little bit if my shredded wheat starts to fall apart in my milk :'(
Oatmeal and peanut butter… or oatmeal with chocolate chips. I just love oatmeal in general…. so there’s no way to lose!
Tasty combos indeed! I just had dates and almond butter and chocolate for my morning snack when I ran home to let Bentley out. I go through almond butter way too quickly too, the thing I have the hardest time controlling myself around. Another, healthier favorite combo of mine recently has been eggs and spinach. In salads, cooked, smoothies have all been including the combo.
Sooo with you on the oats and yoghurt – but for me that also has to be partnered with banana and almond butter!
As you know, dates and almond butter is the most fantastic winning combo in my book – I hope my tweet didn’t end up in the loss of another bag! :-S
Also dates stuffed with blue cheese and a pecan nut, oh my goodness!
Wellllll, since you brought it up, I should probably admit that I kind of made a beeline for my pantry after seeing your tweet this morning 😛
Mmm everything looks so yummy! I love the sweet and salty combo too!
a) Oatmeal AND whipped in egg whites, topped with peanut butta, cinnamon, and pure maple syrup. Or shall I say imposter maple syrup since only the good stuff is in your neck of the woods? 😉
b) Dates AND Merp O___O I have never tried a date…..! I’ll predict you might be doing a face-palm right now.
c) Coffee AND cinnamon. Oh my sweet, sweet, cinnamon. How I love thee. (erm, sorry for my awkward Shakespeare ramble….)
d) Noodles AND cheese. To be specific, Annie’s whole grain shells, cheese, peas, cracked black pepper and a few chunks of avocado on top. Just for good measure 😉
e) Cereal AND almond milk. Maybe raisins if I am feelin’ sassy. And if I am eating raisin bran or something similar. Otherwise I can’t get down.
f) (do you prefer your cereal soggy or crunchy?) Soggy. Like mushy soggy. Feel free to gag, I think I just did too when I actually wrote the description. I digress.
I agree wholeheartedly, I don’t like yogurt in my overnight oats but love it on cooked oats! It’s so good mixed with some PB2 and dolloped onto hot oats, then topped with sliced banana and dry roasted peanuts. SERIOUSLY good.
a) Oatmeal AND runny egg. I miss savory oats… time to make them!
b) Dates AND nothing, really. I should try them!
c) Coffee AND half & half. I’m a purist
d) Noodles AND spinach. (LOTS of things and spinach.)
e) Cereal AND fruit (and milk). Just had Kashi Heart to Heart Oat Flakes and Blueberry Clusters with fresh blueberries and 2% milk for today’s breakfast. Yum.
f) (do you prefer your cereal soggy or crunchy?) Crunchy. But it’s good either way.
You don’t stick the yogurt in the oatmeal while you’re cooking it, right? Just afterwards to eat it? (I think the idea of cooking it with yogurt is a little weird, but you are the one who introduced me to egg whites in oatmeal so I should probably trust your judgment…)
😆 No, I always scoop it in afterwards.
I think chocolate and cherries are one of the best recipes that go well together personally. That is so foodie of me I guess. I think a lot of foods just taste better in combination. i don’t know where I’m going with this LOL.
K so don’t mind me, just drooling over your food. NBD 😉
a) Oatmeal AND banana.
b) Dates AND (I don’t know- I’ve never tried dates!).
c) Coffee AND caramel.
d) Noodles AND tomato sauce.
e) Cereal AND almond milk.
f) (do you prefer your cereal soggy or crunchy?) Crunchy!
I love the idea of adding instant coffee to certain things. I plan on making a version of your smoothie later today after my run. Love the idea of adding a little yogurt to oatmeal. It’s like adding sour cream to chili.
Yes whenever I happen to have cooked oatmeal I always add yogurt..thanks to you! Your photos are verrry persuasive you know 😉
Oatmeal and nut butter/yogurt <- is that cheating?
Dates and errrm..I haven't had dates in too long to decide.
Coffee and CHOCOLATE!
Noodles and tomato chutney
Cereal and yogurt
I'm quite particular with my cereal..I like it partially crispy..sorta slighty softened yet still crispy!
Thanks to you, I discovered the wonderful combo of oats and yogurt! 🙂
a) Oatmeal AND banana. (tryin’ to make it a liiiittle different from yours)
b) I’m changing this to dried figs AND Greek yogurt.
c) Coffee AND …. I don’t like coffee…
d) Noodles AND peanut sauce. (sorry)
e) Cereal AND greek yogurt or smoothies!
f) crunchy!
I read your post after I finished my breakfast this morning and seeing your oats totally made me crave more. Oats for lunch is highly possible today 😆
I love your this and that posts. ..combos are so fun to play around with and are always a great way to get creative with old favorites. I’m not a fan of sweet and salty mixed in the same dish…but snack plates are a total different story! Oatmeal and yogurt is a sure combo for me!
Dates and almond butter are literally one of my favorite combinations. I don’t know how anyone could *not* like it! It’s the perfect pre-workout fuel too. I keep a few of those individual packs of nut butter in my gym bag and pack a few dates in the morning. After work I snack on them on my way to Pure Barre and I’m ready to go!
Mhmm I’m totally with you on the yogurt and oatmeal combo!! I tried it a while back and it adds such a great tang to your oats :D. And YES to the sweet and salt combo. Will forever have a special place in my heart <3
I have been ALL about new food combos lately, but just finished my oatmeal (sans yogurt). My greatest apologies. 😉
Oatmeal AND chocolate AND peanut butter AND pumpkin. Because heaven. 🙂