The Healthy Diabetic: Recipe: Awesome Double-Chocolate Proats

I do love carbs.

"Oh no a diabetic eating carbs.....!" Yeah, amazingly we can do that!

I like to workout first thing in the morning which means I need to fuel up before I do so! I have around 75 minutes from when I crawl out of bed to when I'm loading up the barbell with the first weighted plate.

I actually respond well to carbs, my body likes them. But porridge is dull and I'm not even going to get started on the lack of nutritional value in cereal.

So I wanted to introduce you guys to my favourite Proats recipe from the guys at Train Eat Gain. Proats = Protein + Oats. Simple. The wonderful dual chocolate bonanza comes from chocolate flavoured whey protein and 85% dark chocolate.

So you get a good healthy source of protein, carbs and fats all in one meal! I then top it with nut butter (usually Nuts N More...drool...) and some frozen berries!

Macros (approximately):
Calories: 790
Protein: 51g
Carbs: 73g
Fats: 32g

You can alter the recipe as you like to take away carbs, fats or calories. What you'll want to make sure is that for every 1 unit of oats you use you use 3-3.5 units of milk. Simple.

Ingredients (Serves 1 -2):

- 100g Rolled Oats.
- 300-350ml Unsweetened Almond Milk.
- 1 Scoop Chocolate Flavoured Protein Powder - I use this from Bulk Powders currently as it's fairly cheap and decent marcos. Usually I get my supplements from Genetic Supplements.
- 2 Squares (around 20g) 85% Dark Chocolate.
- 1 tbsp (around 15g) Nut Butter.
- Frozen Berries.

1) Put the oats and almond milk in a microwaveable bowl and throw it in the microwave for around 1 minute 30 seconds at 900W (around 2 minutes if your microwave only goes to 700W).

2) Get the bowl out, give it all a stir and chuck it back in for another minute.

3) Take it out again and then mix and stir in the whey protein. If the oats are a little dry - add a bit more milk. Too wet, put them back in the microwave a while longer.