I love serving my family a warm breakfast on a cold morning. The last few mornings have been quite chilly here and I was in need of something other than a cold bowl of cereal to get my little ones up and out of bed. I love apples and since it’s apple season, I…
Stock Your Freezer Fridays {Week # 1}
This week is the first week of the Stock Your Freezer Fridays series here at Cozy Country Living. I’m so happy you are here! This is a 6 week long series that will focus on stocking our freezers with meals and snacks before the busy holiday season arrives. Sometimes November and December can go…
Strawberry Shortcake Baked Oatmeal
Good Morning! I am excited to be back on schedule today after a very busy week around my house. We are doing some renovating and things are not finished completely, but life must go on. I do really like following a schedule because it keeps me organized and I seem to get a lot more…
Nutella Smores Oatmeal Bars
If you aren’t making Smores over a camp fire this weekend, you might want to try this delicious alternative. These chewy oatmeal bars are made with Nutella, semi sweet chocolate, mini marshmallows and will definitely satisfy that sweet tooth. I was running a little behind schedule yesterday when I made these for my family, so…
Overnight Banana Bread Baked Oatmeal
I am always trying to come up with new recipes for those ripe bananas on my counter. I always have bananas in my kitchen because I have 4 growing monkeys running around who are always looking for a snack. I usually buy 3 or 4 bunches of bananas each time I go to the store…
Slow Cooker Banana Chocolate Steel Cut Oats
Eating a bowl of oatmeal in the morning is a wonderful way to start the day. It is packed with fiber and protein that will keep you full until lunch time. The weather forecast for our area the next few days is rain, rain, and more rain. Along with the rain, we are going…
No Bake Chocolate Peanut Butter M&M Cookies
This week my children were home for Spring Break and really wanted to whip up something fun in the kitchen by themselves. We decided on these simple no bake cookies, and boy were they good! With chocolate, peanut butter and mini M&M’s, you really can’t go wrong. I did help with the quick stove…
Slow Cooker Peaches & Cream Steel Cut Oats
It is so nice to wake up in the morning and have a warm breakfast waiting for you. Steel Cut Oats are a simple, filling breakfast that is so good for you, but preparing them on the stove sometimes takes up too much time in the morning. I try to make breakfast in my slow…
Nutella Energy Bites
When my children come home from school they are hungry! Today I wanted to make them a different type of after school snack. These No Bake Nutella Energy Bites were a treat. Yummy Nutella is mixed with old fashioned oats, coconut, ground flax seed, honey and chocolate chips for a snack that could also double as…
Oatmeal Meatloaf
Meatloaf and mashed potatoes… what a classic dinner combination! I think sometimes meatloaf gets a bad reputation for being dry and well, just not that great. This recipe always delivers a moist delicious meatloaf with a sweet sauce on top that my husband says we cannot go without! There are no breadcrumbs in this…
