Step 1

Place the gluten free oats, diced peeled squash, tomato, butter or oil, flaxseed, garlic, seasoning, milk, broth, and parmesan in the crock pot or slow cooker. Mix all together and set on high 3 hrs or low for Could be more or less depending on your slow cooker.

Step 2

Stir and scrape the sides of the slow cooker every hour if you are using real cheese. The flaxseed with help bind everything together and thicken it up like steel cut oats.

Step 3

Add a 1/4 c more milk or water if you want to thin out the oats (to create more of a porridge) the last hour of cooking.

Step 4

When the slow cooker oats are about ready, preheat oven to 350F and Line a baking tray with foil.Place bacon strips and sliced onion on the tray on top of foil. Bake for 15 minutes or until crispy.Reserve 1/2 to 1 tbsp of the bacon grease.

Step 5

Stir the extra bacon grease into the oats before serving.

Step 6

Spoon savory oatmeal into bowls. Add your toppings of choice (listed) and crispy bacon with onions to garnish.