Slow Cooker Cinnamon Apple Steel Cut Oats

Ingredients

• Cooking spray
• 8 cups water
• 23 ounces unsweetened applesauce
• 1 1/2 cups steel cut oats
• 2 Granny Smith apples – peeled, cored, and diced
• 1/4 cup ground cinnamon, or to taste
• 1/3 cup granular no-calorie sucralose sweetener (such as Splenda) (optional)

Directions

Lightly spray a 5-quart or larger slow cooker crock with cooking spray.

Combine water, applesauce, oats, diced apple, cinnamon, and sweetener in prepared slow cooker.

Cook on Low for 6 hours.