Contributed by Courtney Horan, Author of the healthy living blog Sweet Tooth, Sweet Life.

Happy Thursday, friends! How’s life treatin’ ya this morning?

I woke up a little on the groggy side this morning, thanks to two glasses of wine last night at trivia. Yes, apparently I’ve become that girl. A two ~~beer~~ wine queer.

Ehh, that doesn’t really go well, now does it? Ahh well. You get the gist.

I decided to hold off on an early morning workout and get right to breakfast because it was all I could think of from the minute I got up. Not that that’s any different from any other day, but you know.

Check out all of those colorful berries!

Apparently, I had a craving for them during my last shopping trip, wouldn’t ya say? Either way, I’m glad I did because today’s bowl of mixed berry oats was super yummy. To make the oats, I used

1/3 cup Coach’s Oats
2/3 cup water
1/3 cup unsweetened almond milk
2 tsp chia seeds
1/2 scoop vanilla SunWarrior protein powder
1/2 tsp almond extract (<—YUM!)
cinnamon & nutmeg

I nixed my usual banana today, since mine aren’t nearly ripe enough…and if you’ve ever tried making whipped banana oats with a non-ripe banana, then you know what I’m talkin’ about. But with all the sweetness of these berries, I didn’t even miss it.

The mixed berries (both stirred in at the end of cooking and on top) were amazingly delicious, especially when paired with a sprinkling of Love Grown Foods granola. This bowl totally had me thinking spring & summer time…don’t I wish.