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Home » Chocolate Zoats | Chocolate Zucchini Oatmeal Recipe

Chocolate Zoats | Chocolate Zucchini Oatmeal Recipe

By Kristina LaRue, RDN 21 Comments

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Have you tried Chocolate Zoats aka Zucchini Oatmeal yet? It’s like zucchini bread in a bowl and a yummy way to eat up your veggies for breakfast! 

Have you tried Chocolate Zoats aka Zucchini Oatmeal yet? It's like zucchini bread in a bowl and a yummy way to eat up your veggies for breakfast!

One of my #lifegoals is to have a big garden. Like big enough to feed our family. A garden that is more than a side hobby. One where my littles can play in the dirt, explore, learn about planting and harvesting, and experience how food is grown.

Have you tried Chocolate Zoats aka Zucchini Oatmeal yet? It's like zucchini bread in a bowl and a yummy way to eat up your veggies for breakfast!

You see I don’t want just a garden but a gardener. I want to be a better gardener myself, but a dream of mine is to have a garden consultant and someone to tend to my garden for me… ya know like when I just don’t feel like gardening or if I’m traveling or on vacation. Someone that can help with the soil pH, and where to plant this and that and when and all those details that I just seem to get wrong because I don’t have a green thumb. Do those people exist?

Have you tried Chocolate Zoats aka Zucchini Oatmeal yet? It's like zucchini bread in a bowl and a yummy way to eat up your veggies for breakfast!

Right now I have lots of problems with gardening.

  1. Florida. We have weird growing seasons here. It’s hot year around and all the gardening books and planting instructions on the back of the seed packet don’t make sense for our weather. We can’t plant after first frost because we don’t get frost, I mean we really don’t get spring or fall or winter. It’s HOT 75% of the year. #confusedgardener
  2. I’m all in and then I abandon it. I get super pumped about planting and watering and then I forget about it for days straight. It’s sad. And who wants to pull weeds? I don’t get those people that actually like to pull weeds. I’m not one of them.
  3. Bugs. They love the heat. I try my hand at organic gardening year after year and then it gets attacked by pests.
  4. We’re renting. Since we got married, we’ve lived in three rentals and I’ve planted container gardens on our balcony in the first apartment and raised beds in the rental houses. While I do take herbs and plants with me when we move, I know that garden is temporary.

Have you tried Chocolate Zoats aka Zucchini Oatmeal yet? It's like zucchini bread in a bowl and a yummy way to eat up your veggies for breakfast!

I planted zucchini this year and I think the squirrels ate all the zucchini flowers before any zucchini were able to grow from them ;( I’d see a pretty flower and then it was gone! SAD!

If you are a gardener and have successfully grown zucchini this year, you may be trying find way to use your bounty.  Or if you’re like me you’re buying it up all the zucchini from the grocery store because it’s super cheap right now!

Have you tried Chocolate Zoats aka Zucchini Oatmeal yet? It's like zucchini bread in a bowl and a yummy way to eat up your veggies for breakfast!

So I created thought… why not add zucchini to your morning bowl of oatmeal? We all love zucchini bread and muffins, so why not Chocolate Zoats aka Zucchini Oatmeal!!

This bowl of chocolate zoats is so so good and a great way to get in some veggies at breakfast! It’s simple…

stir shredded zucchini

+ cocoa powder

into your oats while cooking…

= Chocolate Zoats aka Zucchini Oatmeal

Have you tried Chocolate Zoats aka Zucchini Oatmeal yet? It's like zucchini bread in a bowl and a yummy way to eat up your veggies for breakfast!

I’m quite obsessed with this bowl topped with sliced bananas and coconut flakes and AB (duh) and chocolate shavings. Get it!

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Chocolate Zoats aka Zucchini Oatmeal


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  • Author: Kristina LaRue
  • Prep Time: 5 mins
  • Cook Time: 5 mins
  • Total Time: 10 mins
  • Yield: 2 servings 1x
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Have you tried Chocolate Zoats aka Zucchini Oatmeal yet? It’s like zucchini bread in a bowl and a yummy way to eat up your veggies for breakfast!


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Ingredients

  • 1 cup old fashioned oats
  • 2 cups water
  • 1/2 to 1 cup shredded zucchini
  • 1 tablespoon unsweetened cocoa powder
  • 1 banana
  • 2 tablespoons coconut flakes
  • 2 tablespoons almond butter
  • drizzle of honey
  • chocolate shavings, optional

Instructions

  1. Over medium high heat, bring oats, water, and zucchini to a bowl.
  2. Reduce heat to simmer; continue to cook stirring occasionally until water is absorbed and oats are thickened.
  3. Divide oatmeal into two bowls and top each with banana, coconut flakes, almond butter, honey, and chocolate shavings if desired.

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Have you tried Chocolate Zoats aka Zucchini Oatmeal yet? It's like zucchini bread in a bowl and a yummy way to eat up your veggies for breakfast!

 

Kristina LaRue, RDN

Hi I’m Kristina LaRue, RD (registered dietitian nutritionist), Peloton addict and mama to two active and hungry boys. On Love & Zest, you’ll find healthy-ish recipes that fuel the whole family. I’m all about veggie-filled breakfast, meal prep recipes, healthier sweets, and easy weeknight dinners made in the Instant Pot or sheet pan.

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Comments

  1. Katie Ray says

    April 8, 2018 at 11:32 am

    I’ve read recently the nutritional benefits of adding zucchini to oats. This is a really yummy combination of ingredients, so glad I tried! Thanks

    ★★★★★

    Reply
  2. Sonali- The Foodie Physician says

    September 12, 2016 at 7:13 pm

    I definitely need to get on board the zoats train! You’ve packed this amazing bowl with so many of my favorite things 🙂

    Reply
    • Kristina LaRue, RD, CSSD says

      September 13, 2016 at 12:03 am

      You won’t regret it!

      Reply
  3. Jamie @ Dishing Out Health says

    September 8, 2016 at 7:55 am

    Yum! I love the volume zucchini adds to oats. I’ll never turn down a bowl with almond butter, coconut and chocolate!

    Reply
    • Kristina LaRue, RD, CSSD says

      September 13, 2016 at 12:07 am

      🙂 You and me both!

      Reply
  4. honeywhatscooking says

    September 7, 2016 at 10:10 pm

    I have never seen a bowl of ZOats! This sounds really interesting. I’m going to give it a try. Thanks for sharing.

    Reply
    • Kristina LaRue, RD, CSSD says

      September 13, 2016 at 12:07 am

      Mind blown right? When I saw zucchini oatmeal for the first time I was like… where has that bowl of oats been all my life?

      Reply
  5. Lauren Harris-Pincus says

    September 7, 2016 at 5:36 pm

    THere is a lonely zucchini in my fridge just waiting for a home- I’m thinking this is it!

    Reply
    • Kristina LaRue, RD, CSSD says

      September 13, 2016 at 12:09 am

      YAY! Glad he found an oatmeal companion.

      Reply
  6. Krystal // The Krystal Diaries says

    September 7, 2016 at 1:49 pm

    Oatmeal is one of my favorite breakfast options but I have never thought to add zucchini to it. I can’t wait to try this!

    Reply
    • Kristina LaRue, RD, CSSD says

      September 13, 2016 at 12:10 am

      I sure hope you do! Oatmeal is so nice and filling. In fact, I think that’s what I will make for breakfast in the AM!

      Reply
  7. Bethany @ Athletic Avocado says

    September 7, 2016 at 8:15 am

    I LOVE zoats for breakfast! Sooooo good and filling! I’ve actually never tried the chocolate version, so this is on my to make list! I would top it with all the drippy almond butter!

    Reply
    • Kristina LaRue, RD, CSSD says

      September 7, 2016 at 11:44 am

      How do you usually eat them? Agree, AB is a must!!

      Reply

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