Lunch: Slow Cooker Cinnamon Apple Steel Cut Oats

Recipe by DebbieKat Another yummy way to eat oatmeal. The house smells wonderful while this is cooking.

This recipe includes superfoods such as:

Cinnamon, Apples

Health benefits of Slow Cooker Cinnamon Apple Steel Cut Oats

Cinnamon is one of the best ingredients that someone with insulin sensitivity can eat. Half a teaspoon of cinnamon per day has been shown to be very effective at normalizing blood sugar levels. Cinnamon contains hydroxychalcone, which is thought to enhance the effects of insulin. It has also been suggested that Cinnamon prevents post-meal blood sugar spikes by slowing the gastric emptying rate - meaning that food digests slowly. (Reference: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11506060). Apples will improve your body's sensitivity to insulin (Reference: http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/27/1/281.full)

Ingredients

cooking spray
8 cups water
23 ounces unsweetened applesauce
1 1/2 cups steel cut oats
2 Granny Smith apples - peeled, cored, and diced
1/4 cup ground cinnamon, or to taste
1/3 cup granular no-calorie sucralose sweetener (such as Splenda®) (optional)

Instructions

Lightly spray a 5-quart or larger slow cooker crock with cooking spray.
Combine water, applesauce, oats, diced apple, cinnamon, and sweetener in prepared slow cooker.
Cook on Low for 6 hours.

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