Super Protein Parfait

Alright, I'll admit it, this post is not a Pinterest copy.  This is a delicious meal that I decided to make one day as I wanted some protein after going to the gym.  What I really wanted was some of Blogilate's Banana Pancakes, but, after I chopped up the banana I realized I didn't have eggs.  So this left me with chopped up bananas and a grumbling tummy.  I thought I could make a parfait, with the greek yogurt, but I've got to be honest here.  I don't really like greek yogurt that much!  It's just so bitter!  I ussually put some stevia in it to make it a little tastier.  Then I was thinking that I wished Nutella was healthy and that I could put that on my bananas.  THEN IT HIT ME.  Chocolate protein powder... in my greek yogurt?!  So I did it.

Alright, so it doesn't look terribly appetizing, but I swear it was!  A quick and easy snack/meal with a whopping 39 g of protein.  That's 86% of my protein intake for the day (If not exercising my protein is 45g a day.  I use MyFitnessPal to figure out the changes when I do exercise - Add me! )  

But then the next day (Tuesday)  I had to do something even fancier.  I had to go to the next step.

Now that looks tasty!  Same thing, I put 1 scoop of chocolate flavoured protein powder in with 3/4 cup of greek yogurt.  Only this time I added a strawberry layer, a banana layer, and raspberry topping.  Yum!  

You don't have to do just chocolate either!  Today I switched it up and did raspberry protein powder, and put it in a mason jar to bring to school with me.  This may be a new staple in my diet!

Baked Oatmeal with Strawberries, Bananas, and Chocolate Chips

You know how sometimes you see something that just looks amazing, that makes you drool just looking at it?  Well, when I saw Inspired Taste's Baked Oatmeal with Strawberries, Bananas, and Chocolate Chips I knew I had to have it.  It just looks so scrumpcious.  

So I pulled out a bowl and went to work.

Lined everything up to be just as pretty as Inspired Taste's.

And set it in the oven while (im)patiently awaiting their finish.

And loaded it up in Mason Jars for my breakfasts.  In behind is breakfast quinoa, which is TO DIE FOR.  I'll make a post on it later!

Looks can be deceiving though.  Maybe I did something wrong, maybe it just doesn't taste great when not eaten right away.  I'm not sure.  But these tasted kind of bitter.  I'm going to try adding some stevia on top, in hopes that will help, perhaps with some milk too, but on it's own it just didn't live up to my hopes and dreams.  I do know I did one thing wrong though, which may account for the taste.  The recipe calls for MELTED butter, but I just threw in normal butter and tried to mix it as well as possible. I thought it looked kind of odd, but figured it was supposed to melt into the casserole while it was baking. 

Chunky bits of butter.  It's not supposed to look like this!

All in all I think I'd try this one again, but I'd do a couple things different.  First, I'd melt the butter, haha.  Secondly, I'd split the amount of brown sugar and use Stevia in place.  With the brown sugar 1/6 of the casserole has 18g of sugar, which is more than half of what I aim my daily sugar intake to be!

I have what I consider a very exciting post coming up soon!  I can't wait to share it with you :)