Although I tend to eat the same foods I always try and at least mix up the way it’s served. Take my oats.

I thought I was actually over oats for awhile.  I got on a huge cereal and kefir kick and was REALLY enjoying them.  What can I say, I’m simple and love cereal.  Thankfully when my friends came to visit and requested pumpkin oats, I realized that I did in fact miss my dear oats.  Oats are just so much more fun to dress up.  You can’t really dress up cereal.

this little temptress is the first pumpkin i had since my "strike" against pumpkin. i was being silly really, i don't know why i would ever strike pumpkin. this was also the first time i've had coconut butter. oh. my. goodness. is that stuff good in pumpkin oats.

So once my love for pumpkin and oats were re-ignited it was of course oats again for breakfast the next morning.  This time I added some chocolate protein and a bit of unsweetened cocoa as well to make chocolate pumpkin oats.

chocolate protein pumpkin oats topped with creamy peanut butter, coconut butter and some lovely banana slices. a little pumpkin spice sprinkle and this bowl was ah-mazing!

I’m really glad I came back to my oats, I mean, they are just so much more fun to photograph.

beautiful. just beautiful.

seriously too much goodness for one picture.

I actually had all intentions of having oats again this morning, but thanks to miss Katie at Healthy Diva Eats posted an amazing picture of a pumpkin spice pancake and just like that my breakfast plans had changed.  I didn’t have oat bran so I just used oatmeal instead, but it still came out pretty tasty.  Here is her recipe.

and i finally figured out how to make protein frosting and omg did it make the difference. I used Spiru-Tein in chocolate. I was nervous about not using nut butter because i typically ALWAYS use nut butter in my breakfast, but this was amazing. really hit the spot. topped with a bit of kashi go lean.

yummy yummy oat pancake in my tummy.

I was so excited about making it that I took a mid eating picture and tweeted it to Katie.  I just had to let her know how delicious my morning was.  Oh if I only had a pumpkin spice latte to go with it. -le sigh-

But there is always tomorrow for my latte, but I now have the dilemma of I have no idea of what I want for breakfast.  And I am one of those crazy people that I can not go to bed without knowing what I am going to have the next morning.  Is that weird?  Breakfast obsessed? Possibly. It is my favorite meal of the day.

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Do you plan out your breakfast the night before?

Do you tend to eat the same things for breakfast or do you try and have something different?