Fig Pear Oatmeal

Fresh figs are one of my top ten favorite foods – right after mangoes. I can eat fresh figs by the bowlful. Unfortunately, fresh figs are hard to come by in the northern U.S.  I do have 3 fig trees in some pots thatI bring into the house in the winter, but they don’t produce very many figs. And when I forget to water them (which is often) they don’t produce any figs.

Note: If you want to be nice to me, please don’t tempt me to jealousy by leaving a comment about the beautiful fig tree growing in your back yard. Unless, of course, you want to overnight some to me. Then it would be fine.

Where was I? Oh, yes. You can’t easily grow fresh figs where I live. And you can’t find them in the grocery store because they are highly perishable. But that’s ok because dried figs still make my top 10. And dried figs can be found in just about any grocery store. And dried figs taste yummers in this delicious Fig Pear Oat Bake.

This Fig Pear Oat Bake is a very healthy breakfast because it’s high in fiber and other nutrients and it’s naturally sweetened with pears and figs.

Be sure to use Turkish figs in Fig Pear Oat Bake; black mission figs don’t taste very good in this recipe.

Fig Nutrition:

Figs are a good source of iron, calcium, phosphorous, and slimming fiber.