The avocado is a fantastically healthy and simple-to-digest first food for babies. Your infant really needs the healthy fats!
| Prep Time: | 10 mins |
| Cook Time: | 5 hrs 30 mins |
| Total Time: | 5 hrs 40 mins |
| Servings: | 14 |
| Yield: | 14 servings |
Ingredients
- cooking spray
- 32 ounces vanilla-flavored almond milk
- 1 ½ cups water
- 1 (15 ounce) can pumpkin puree
- 2 tablespoons pure maple syrup
- 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 2 cups steel-cut oats
- 1 cup dried cranberries
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 1 ½ cups diced apple, or more to taste
- 1 cup chopped pecans
Instructions
- Lightly spray a slow cooker with cooking spray.
- Combine the almond milk, water, pumpkin puree, maple syrup, cinnamon, and salt in the slow cooker. Whisk to combine thoroughly. Add oats, dried cranberries, and butter.
- Set your slow cooker to Low and cook for 3 1/2 hours. Stir in diced apples and pecans. Continue cooking on Low for 2 more hours.
- Use firm cooking apples. I prefer Jonagolds. I leave on the skin for fiber and texture, but you can peel them as well.
- At the end of cooking, I spread out the oatmeal on baking sheets to cool and portion into individual servings and freeze.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 190 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 27 g |
| Cholesterol | 4 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 4 g |
| Protein | 3 g |
| Saturated Fat | 2 g |
| Sodium | 201 mg |
| Sugars | 14 g |
| Fat | 9 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
Made this in the slow cooker on a rainy day at home. I only had unsweetened almond milk on hand. I added 2 Tbsp of vanilla extract and decided to add sugar to each bowl. Very good!