First of all, thank you for all the kind comments on my last post! Each and every one of them made me smile!
Today has been a lazy day, other than my ravishing (is that the right word?) hunger. I feel like I eat something, I'm stuffed, then 20 minutes later, I'm hungry again! What the heck? I didn't have a chance to work out today, so I don't even have the excuse that I burned some extra calories and need to eat them. Sigh.
I was a nice big sister and took my brother's car to get the tires rotated, then I stopped at the store for the pizza crust for dinner. I really need to start making my own. Someday. Now I'm catching up on blogs and doing laundry. We were really overdue in the laundry department, it was pretty bad.
Anywho, today I need some advice from you dear readers. I want to make some oatmeal. A few months ago, I was adding some of the already packages Quaker oatmeal packets into my breakfast routine. They were okay, but didn't fill me. I see people like Kath eating oatmeal almost daily. I want to like oatmeal and make it in all kinds of cool ways, but I just don't know where to start. All different kinds of oats and how to make them. It's a big mess.
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Tell me about your experiences with oats. What kind do you use? How do you cook them? What kinds of add-ins do you add?
Thank you!
I LOVE oatmeal and eat it most mornings! I started with just quick cooking oats and adding a cinnamon and sliced banana. After reading blogs and seeing all the unique ways to eat oatmeal I started making changes. I still use quick cooking oats (1/4 cup dry) and 3/4 cup of water or almond or soy milk.(liquid varies depending on how thick you like your oats) I also add a TBLS of chia seeds or flax. After I cook it for 2 min 30 sec I add the cinnamon and sliced banana. Now I am adding a TBLS of sunflower nut butter! YUMMY!!!
ReplyDeletePizza dough is super easy to make, so I'm betting you'd like doing it and it saves money, which is a bonus.
ReplyDeleteI'm not an oatmeal fan, but I do know that most people enjoy the steel cut oats more than the instant oats.
I got a recipe from a fellow blogger. It's called Overnight oats. Mix 1/2 C Old Fashioned Oats, 1/2 cup Almond Milk (regular milk would probably work fine), 1 spoonful of dark Cocoa powder. (I used chocolate Almond Milk and a tbs of no sugar added hot chocolate mix) Refrigerate over night. Add sliced banana or strawberries before you serve. YUM!! I mix mine in a rubbermaid container so I can take it to work with me if I don't have time to eat in the morning before I go to work. It's great for summer when you don't feel like eating a hot breakfast.
ReplyDeleteI'm in the oats-every-day club! Well, every weekday anyway. I don't always include them in my weekends, but sometimes I do.
ReplyDeleteI use Quaker Old-Fashioned oats, and almost always microwave them with equal parts oats and almond milk. Then I'll add some appleause for sweetening, or a sliced up banana and a packet of splenda. And some day I'll add some peanut butter or some syrup. Once I added almonds! That's about as exotic as my oats get.
Good luck, oat are amazing!
I do oats a LOT. I'm not a fan of them by themselves, but I do my own "overnight oats" by putting about 1/4 c of quick oats in a container of a yogurt of my choice... then I put fruit over top.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite combination is:
FF Cherry Cobbler Yogurt with 1/4 c oats, let sit overnight
freshen with a splash of milk in the AM
top with 1/2 c fresh cherries
Yum.
After reading on the WW boards, I'm going to try grinding up 1/4 c to put in my smoothie this AM.