WIAW: Oatmeal Obsessions

It’s hard to believe that it’s Wednesday already. The last of summer seems to be slipping away, quicker and quicker, each week. But, on a more positive note - Wednesday means another day of eats thanks to Jenn at Peas and Crayons. This week is a bit different, though.. because.. well..

I have a confession to make.
When I fall for a food, I eat it again and again. For days. Maybe weeks. Perhaps a month. Or two.
For a while it was blueberries. Gluten free pancakes. Then guacamole. And now, baked oatmeal.

Between my own grocery shopping, helping a friend who can’t drive, running out of dog food and lacking pantry staples, I end up at our local Albertson’s nearly every day. If you’ve been following along, you know that I’ve already been made fun of once by one of the cashiers. Imagine my surprise when, the next day, more jokes were being made.

Let’s just say that a conversation about my love of watermelon and oatmeal escalated to a metaphor involving the British girl who only ate chicken nuggets.

But really people, I just can’t help it. I seem to cling onto things and then do them over, and over, and over, again. Having food allergies and intolerances seems to only exacerbate the problem as I find foods that I’m comfortable eating and then, well, I just keep eating them.

I chose a different format for WIAW this week - a showcase of my whole week of eats. Between our busy schedules, plumbing catastrophes and Trevor’s impromptu trip to New Mexico, I couldn’t seem to photograph one singular day of eats from beginning to end. Plus, most days, I ate baked oatmeal twice. The one picture above? Peach and cherry - and the second one this week.

In between the obsessive oatmeal consumption, I did manage to enjoy a few other treats. Come summer, breakfast burritos with leftover steak, cheddar, tomato and avocado are a must. And one morning, Trevor treated to breakfast at the Montana Club. My choice of breakfast: an omelette topped with avocado. (Are we noticed an unhealthy habit, here?)

During summer months, I can’t seem to get enough fruit either. This week, I finished off that bag of cherries, enjoyed a handful of juicy sweet plums, chopped up peaches to bake oatmeal, ate one half of a cantaloupe with a spoon, and finished two personal sized watermelons. Like I said, fruit’s a summer staple in our house.

As a normally healthy eater, I’m a little embarrassed to throw a gluten-free pizza and soda into the mix but it made for two lunches this week. Somehow, Gallicano’s tops any gluten-free choices back east and when topped with sausage, canadian bacon, roasted red peppers and mushrooms.. I just can’t resist. I’m also a little embarrassed about all the strange snacking that took place over the past seven days. With hours each day spent running to the hardware store or running down the cellar stops to shut off water that was flooding the house, we had no time to cook lunches. Instead, we had slices of corn bread, those too-good-to-be-true chocolate chip oatmeal cookies, handfuls of M&M’s and a few cups of Chobani.

All that being said, we did manage to have dinner together each night. Even though it may have been at one or even two o’clock in the morning. On the nights that Trevor ate at work, I enjoyed a heaping pile of Jovial pasta with Trevor’s broccoli puree (I swear, it was alfredo without the fat!), grated parmesan and topped with sauteed tomatoes, garlic, onions and just a bit of bacon. Other dinners included left over steak with sweet potato fries and pork chops braised in apple cider with corn on the cob.

Hopefully the next week will feature some more normal eating habits. And, rumor has it, that my boyfriend will be bringing a cooler full of green chile with him when he returns home. Until then, I have two more days to survive on oatmeal and yogurt (I’m out of watermelon). Unfortunately though, they will be filled with towel rods to hang, DIY projects to finish and a paper to write.

Though, I was thinking of making granola...

Tell me, do you have a food that you just can’t stop eating? Has a cashier ever picked on your grocery choices?