I had no trouble falling asleep last night – zonk, hit the pillow, zzzz.
But at 5:45 this morning I was wide awake and thinking about the bakery! I think for a week or maybe a month it’s going to take over my brain quite a bit. Just all the newness. But I will hopefully settle back into normal brain function soon.
I debated going for a run but even though I was wide awake, I was still pretty sleepy, so I decided not to. Instead, I made Great Harvest Cinnamon Raisin Oatmeal!
Our oatmeal mixes have something magical about them. This took longer than normal to cook (although I decided to put the banana on top instead of inside so that may have been the change) and the texture is so FLUFFY you just couldn’t believe it. Like silk!
I topped the bowl with half a super ripe banana, Grandma Candy’s Jam, Smucker’s Natural and ground flax
Cool coffee.
Matt’s still sound asleep and I’m leaving him there till noon at least.
Headed to Whole Foods for a 50% off sale – our BRAND NEW STORE LOCATION opens on Tuesday! Now that’s something to miss work for 
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Whoa I think I would die and go to heaven if the Whole Foods here had a 50% off sale!
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So excited to read about the opening and wish I lived closer! My kids have a 1/2 day of school on Wednesday and I have planned a little after-school lunch field trip to the Lexington, MA Great Harvest — it’s the closest location to us. I received 2 shipments from Open Sky this week — the Pestos and the Marinades. So excited to try them this week!! Keep the suggestions coming! Oh, and I noticed, since I started reading your blog, that I now look at my plate at every meal and consider how well it would photograph! You’ve inspired me to pull out some long-forgotten linens and eclectic bowls & plates. Fun departure from the standard white dinnerware.
Fun! Linens love to come out of drawers. So do the bowls and plates!
Grandma Candy = best company name ever.
WHole Food @ 50% off?! That’s almost worth a trip to Charlottesville. Haha!
Your Whole Foods is having a 50% off sale?! AWESOME!
(Yes, that is TOTALLY something to miss work for.)
50% off sale at WF??? I bet I know where your pay cheque is going this month!
Having some dakota now, its amazing! Is anything special happening at wf on Tuesday I should know about?
I think there’s just a ribbon cutting at 10am on Tues
What you said in your last post about being excited to work around food really hit home for me.
I love food too and I cant wait to share that same passion when i become a natural foods chef!
Enjoy your day off and have a great time at WF
I read about the Whole Food’s sale on Allie’s blog and was so jealous! I’d be out there majorly stocking on up all the non-perishables. Have a good Sunday! I hope your day off is very relaxing! Maybe you can let us see what you pick up at the Whole Foods sale?
Jealous about Whole Foods! Enjoy that day off of yours
I hate when I’m so tired but can’t sleep! I hope you can take a nap later today!
Wow 50% off! That is super exciting! Glad you fell asleep last night easily : )
I just wish we had a Whole Foods store closer than 100 miles!! Congrats for your first few days of bakery ownership. I’m hoping you’re closed today and can take a rest of sorts at least once a week.
Our Whole Foods did the SAME thing when a new location opened and there was literally a line almost 1/4 mile long outside of the store to get in for the 50% off sale! No joke, it was INSANITY – I am sooo curious to hear about your experience
Was the line over a mile?
Enjoy your morning!
50% off at WF? I’m jealous! Your oats look delicious as always! I’m enjoying a similar breakfast myself: rolled oats, banana, dried cherries, raspberry preserves and JIF natural (I’ll have to try the smuckers brand I keep reading good things).
I hope you get lots of goodies at the WF sale! But I hear the lines are ridiculous…
Haha I wish I could get my hands on that silky oatmeal recipe, but I guess I’ll have to wait to recreate it myself
Have a great rest day!
It looks like you are having so much fun!! If you decide you would like to ship items I would take a granola, the cinnamon raisin oatmeal, honey. Do you know if any of the other great harvest ships those items the oatmeal sounds great, is it made with all whole foods ingredients?
Have a great day!
Heather
I do think some of the others ship, but I’m not sure which ones.
That’s how I am with new things too – I agree it will probably take over your brain for a little bit but soon enough it will just be second nature! Yay for a Whole Foods sales! There’s nothing better
It is SO hard to sleep with so much on the mind. I know as soon as my head hits the pillow, if there’s a lot going on in my life, it all comes out then. Why, why?
Hope you get a nap in
50% off!! Wow! I’d be hoarding the entire store!
I would die if Whole Foods was having a sale! Have a good time buying the store- that’s what I would do
50% off whole foods?!? Holy crap that’s awesome… I gotta scope out if any are opening in my area!
Whole Foods + sale are words never seen in the same sentence here.
Ahhhh WOW a 50% off sale at Whole Foods — now THAT would save me some money
Glad you got some sleep, I’m the worst when it comes to sleeping when nervous/excited. Enjoy WF!
50 % off sale at whole foods?? goodness me I want that here in Chicago!
Hope you have a great day off!
A new WF is ALWAYS something to miss work for! I miss fluffy oats — I just wish the warm weather didn’t make me want overnight oats every morning!
enjoy your well deserved day off!!
A 50% off sale? That sounds like a dream come true!
Kath, my wife and I are going to ninja into your GH bakery one of these days, unannounced, and grace you with a few minutes of lovely Wood company. If we see you, we’ll strike up conversation but won’t tell you it’s us but we’ll be so cool and hip it will mystify you. Then I’ll blog about it and you see it and say “Hey!”
Noooo!!! Introduce yourself or otherwise I’ll be all nervous this week!!
Who said it would be THIS week
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Sitting in Harrisonburg wondering about the new store location. Now that your bakery is open, it looks like it’s time for a visit to C’ville!
Come visit!
You two deserve the rest, enjoy. And 50% at whole foods, I wish I had that.
I know that feeling of excitement that you can’t sleep. I couldn’t sleep the night before we flew out for our wedding in Mexico.
Have a fun baking day
that sounds like me when i was shooting the movie in SF a few weeks ago. no problems passing out but up at 4am, even on my days off!
Congrats on the bakery! So excited to stop by sometime. Saw you at Whole Foods today, in all the chaos, but decided not to say hello. Hope you had as much luck at WF as I did!
Oh how exciting!!
A WF sale is my version of heaven! Is it 50% off everything!?
50 percent off sale at Whole Foods?? That sounds awesome! Wish we had one nearby!
50% off at WF? That is awesome! Enjoy your day!
Hi Kath, longtime reader here, I don’t comment much, but I can totally relate to your “nightmares”…
If they are anything like the ones that I have whenever I start a new waitress job, you imagine that customers are surrounding your bed, and you are trying to serve them but are embarrassed that you are in your PJs (or less!) and trying to tell them “BUT TODAY IS MY DAY OFF!!”
It’s terrifying! But maybe yours were different
YAY for day off– enjoy it! You’ve worked hard
Oh, Whole Foods. How I miss thee . . . there’s no such thing in France, unfortunately, but there are a few small co-ops here and there. Haha, the first thing I’ve already planned to do upon my return: go to Whole Foods. Literally, I will step off the plane, retrieve my luggage, and then proceed to stock up on much missed staples!
I miss whole foods! How awesome about the sale!! I would LOVE to go to that!!
I hope you got some good stuff!!
Did you get anything good from WF? I went over there at 7:30 this morning to wait in the line & it was nuts. I got a lot of bars that I eat frequently, cereal (want some Kashi?) & a few frozen things. I got lucky & everyone was really nice but there were some rude people showing up when I left. Almost all the nut butters were gone too
Must have just missed you!
50% off sale!?!?!? I am jealous, incredibly. Good luck today!
It was great meeting you today even if it was because we happened to get on the slowest moving line possible at Whole Foods. I can’t wait to make peanut butter per your recipe with my daughter this week! She loves to help me cook and that is one of her favorite foods. We’ll look for you at the bakery someday soon! Best of luck!
So nice to meet you! Thanks SO much for sharing your cart!!
I’ve never heard of a 50% off sale at Whole Foods! There must have been a line out the door, just like there will be at your bakery on Tuesday! Best wishes for a smooth and successful opening!
I want this for breakfast, lunch, and dinner until the end of time
It looks like comfort in a bowl
I am so surprised to see a Speights mug!!!! I live in New Zealand so I get it all the time, and I’m actually going to the brewery next Wednesday. I am so excited!
50% off at Whole Foods?? AMAZING! Hope you get lots of goodies!
Yum, what a bowl of oats!
what a huge bowl of b-fast oats, looks yumm!
Holy crap – 50% off?! That’s amazing.
Skip work on Tuesday? As a food blogger, isn’t it your JOB to be at the grand opening of the new Whole Foods?!
(I know, you were referring to the bakery…)
HA!!!! Thanks for sticking up for KERF! She needs as much legitimacy as the bakery and has been feeling a little left out!
Pb and Jelly is the best topper ever. yummy…
Representing the south with your Speights Glass
you made my day. I live in Queenstown, New Zealand (the south) where that beer is from. where did this glass come from??
Nice New Zealand Beer mug!!! Dunedin is where I went to Uni:)
After four hours sleep night before last, I kinda know how you feel. Then again, that’s because I was at a party, so probably shouldn’t ask for sympathy
Your bowl of delicious-ness looks like a great way to start the morning!
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