Oatmeal

[butters]

I remember growing up that every school day my father would make my sister and I oatmeal for breakfast. Sometimes even putting chocolate syrup in it to make it "fun". I came to hate oatmeal. So I swore as a young adult I would never eat oatmeal again for breakfast. (I absolutely do have to give him credit for making it every school day. That was a very good thing in retrospect.)

Fast forward 30 years and how times have changed.

I have to admit though I am trying to figure out this oatmeal thing. Old fashioned, not the instant ones. No fancy brands just regular old fashioned oats. Cooked in water with the pinch of salt they say to add.

So far I've mixed in fruit, a bit of peanut butter, honey, lemon jelly. I don't want to add plain table sugar. I still need to figure out how to round it out - protein and fat specifically.

How do you do oatmeal?

my dad used to cook it with water and salt *yuk*

my mum used to use a milk and water mix *better*

i use all milk to cook the oats (whichever kind we have at the time, preferring steel-cuts) plus a pinch of salt

then i add a blob of good butter on top of the oats in the bowl, and we add whatever we fancy at the time: H's ma'am is big on jelly/jam; i love nuts and fruit, maple syrup, but even without the extras it's good to go after the butter.

not something we eat all the time, just now and again.

 

[butters]

oh, forgot, we use if in cookies sometimes, and you can make a good muesli with them but i hardly ever do

 

[MonaLittle]

Oatmeal crumbles and strawberries on Plain Greek Yogurt is YUM

 

[MNGuy]

When I was young, and we were poorer, I ate oatmeal everyday for breakfast. Once with burned pieces, little black spots. They were bugs.

I will never eat oatmeal again.

 

[Comshaw]

When I was a kid we ate a lot of oatmeal for breakfast. Always Quaker oatmeal with sugar and homemade butter. Now I eat Snoqualmie Falls Lodge oatmeal with brown sugar and butter (I refuse to buy or use margarine). Best damned oatmeal I've ever eaten.

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Comshaw