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Went to bed early. Slept well. Woke up at sunrise. Went running.
Straight to Great Harvest! Matt suggested I take home breakfast – Mondays we make my favorite muffin: the Oat Berry. Yum!
Total miles of exertion to get said muffin: about 4.75.
Oat Berry crumbled atop a cup of low-fat plain organic yogurt, a diced plum, chia seeds and sunflower butter
Coocoo for coconut
Have a great start to your week!
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I think you need great harvest shirts with that phrase!
I agree with Gina! And I would be one of the first people in line to buy one
Iagree With this idea!
Looks delish! I love oaty berry-y muffins too!
I would run any amount of miles for that muffin!! It looks awesome
I kicked off my Monday with a run too – such a good start to the week!
That would be an awesome shirt!
Your plum looks so good. I’m ready for my winter oats!
Haha, did you run back with the muffin in your hand?!
Yeah! But in a baggie
I would have crushed it! Do you guys bake certain items or put out sandwiches according to the day of the week or mix it up?
I think the muffin would’ve made me run faster so I’d eat it quicker haha
Shirts with that phrase would be SO awesome!!
Loving the plum addition to breakfast ; )
Happy Monday Kath!
I would definitely like that on a shirt! Or will run for oats
THESE MUFFINS ARE MAKING ME THIRSTY.
Haha
Beautiful colours this morning Kath! I kicked off my morning with teaching my usual Monday morning spin class. Cheers to early AM workout endorphins! Have a great day!:)
I’m not normally a big muffin lover but for some reason “oat berry” sounds so freakin good right now!!!
I always think your muffin-on-top-of-yogurt breakfasts look so delicious- but the question is: does it keep you as full as oatmeal does?
I have almost 5 hours between when I eat breakfast and lunch (being a teacher, it’s not flexible) and oatmeal seems to be the only thing that keeps me full. I would like to switch it up occasionally though…
Hmmm. Yes, it does. I think the yogurt helps. And there’s more muffin on there than you think!
I fourth the idea to put the phrase on Great Harvest shirts as well
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I would totally run for that muffin. And I hate running! lol
i don’t run. but i might for muffins.
Mmm now that’s what I call motivation
! Have a great Monday, Kath!
What a great way to start your morning!
I would run for a muffin or a scuffin!
I would run for that muffin, cville cluster or scuffins
Have a great Monday!
p/s: Would I be meeting you at Foodbuzz Festival?
I haven’t decided if I’m going yet – I’m just not sure I want/can spend the money with all of our home improvements and all. Still pondering.
running for baked goods? pssssh….I would probably be a lot further in my half marathon training if some warm delicious doughy goods were at my end point! also if a pool of sunflower butter was involved….
Haha I would definitely run for one of your muffins! Looks so good!
I love muffins, and running or working out for baked goods!
I will definitely run for that muffin!
You guys need to make Great Harvest shirts with that logo 
maybe “Will run for Great Harvest Muffins and Scuffins”
Mmm I love muffins. Especially in the fall!
Happy Monday Kath!
Looks amazing! My breakfast was really good too, but if I added chia seeds and yogurt it wold have been even better!
I agree with the commenters above…definitely need shirts that say that! It would be awesome!
Reading your blog always reminds me I need to buy chia seeds…lol
Don’t you ever just throw caution to the wind and eat the whole muffin? All I ever see you eat of your own bakery’s goods are corners and crumbs and nibbles. Do you not totally enjoy the baked goods or is it a calorie thing or something else? I know you eat the bread so it’s just strange to me the way you treat the sweet treats.
Well our sweets are humongous – perhaps that doesn’t come across? I ate well over half of the muffin today – which was technically more than 1 serving. Some of our bars are 800 calories! 1/4 of one is plenty sweet, but I have eaten more than that of almost all of them at times.
Your breakfast looks like the perfect meal after a nice morning run! The plums are sounding so good to me right now!
I’m a muffin maniac lately! Those sound delic
Loving the photos in this post!! They really pop!
I have to get baking some muffins they are so handy to eat on the go to collage. Yum thanks for reminding me how much I love a good muffin. Just sad face about the muffin top.
Yum! Crumbled muffins always taste great on yogurt. Kind of like granola, but with a softer texture. Great way to start the week!
I want to live next door to Great Harvest so I can spend my days OD’ing on baked goods and bread and sandwiches and carby carbs galore. I am both miserably jealous of you and also completely grateful to be so far from one– for the sake of my booty.
I’d prob run for one too!
I’ve always liked your collection of breakfast bowls. I used to eat from paper plates or plastic containers but watching the parade of pretty bowls changed that. I’ve got several nice SIAB, oats, etc bowls for my brekkie. Got a new one on Saturday. The decorations are denim blue on an oatmeal background. It’s so much nicer to eat from a pretty bowl, isn’t it.
i love the oat berry as well!
next time i visit our local great harvest i’m going to have them take a peek at your sandwich board. cville’s menu blows ours out of the water!
I will run for pretty much any baked good. I’m such a sucker.
Hmm perhaps I would “run for muffins” too, only if I had a great place like GH right around my neighborhood though!
Have a beautiful Monday~!
I’d be running at dawn too if it meant a warm oat berry muffin! Gosh that looks so good!
What a creative way to use a muffin
Hahaha loving that idea of shirts with that phrase.. or even ‘will run for bread’… I would run that far for a super delicious Monday morning breakfast too! Do you use the Trader Joe’s sunflower seed butter?? I’m not sure if I like it… it’s almost too sweet??…. recommend any brands?
Happy Monday!
Yeah, I haven’t tried Sunbutter yet. I just love TJ’s!
Great breakie! Haha I would do alot of crazy stuff for some good bake goods
Glad you got a good run in…I’d be running for those,too.
Fun saying/slogan. Put it on a tshirt!
Love the idea of making GH shirts with that saying! I need some motivation like that sometimes! Do you notice that when you eat chia seeds on top of things like that..you seem to be finding them stuck in your teeth all day!?
Have a good Monday!
Haha – maybe right after, but not all day!
I notice you use a lot of chia seeds. I just bought some this weekend and am ready to try it out, but what are the benefits of this particular seed? Just wondering. Thanks.
They don’t have to be ground, which is why I prefer them to flax. And they are just fun to crunch!
maybe it’s just a semantic thing, but the way you said “miles of exertion to get said muffin” — did you mean miles it took to run to the bakery? or you would have deprived yourself of the muffin unless you ran 5 miles first — i generally find that you exhibit a healthy lifestyle, so this idea of needing to do a lot of exercise to be “entitled” to eat a muffin seemed strange — i hope it’s the former and not the later…
Sara! Kath almost always runs before breakfast, and it’s her mode of transport. To me this is no different than running to the grocer to pick up more oats…
She went for a run, and stopped off at her bakery… it took the effort to GET the muffin, not to deserve it… Stop trying to read things into stuff!
Definitely a semantic thing.
I meant the exertion to get something I really wanted for breakfast – like how many miles would you drive to get a bottle of wine at your favorite winery. Nothing to do with energy balance. I eat muffins for breakfast all the time without exercise first.
Yep, I’d definitely run for a muffin…or for your bowls of oats!
Yummy breakfast and healthy! I love how you added a cup of low-fat plain organic yogurt, chia seeds and sunflower butter. I would definitely run for the muffin too!
I was SO confused by the title of this post. I thought you were going to say that salt actually got put in the muffins in place of sugar or something. lol. Then I caught on…sweat–duh!