How Do You Like Your Oatmeal? Do You Eat It For Breakfast?

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  1. Lon Tanner

    Lon Tanner Supreme Member
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    I have it at least twice weekly with cream ,raisins, brown sugar
     
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    With soy milk. Sometimes with brown sugar and margerine. Sometimes with dates. Sometimes with strawberries and blueberries.
     
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  3. John Brunner

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    I like oatmeal (and cream of wheat, and Maypo), but I rarely bother to make them.

    If I make the plain oatmeal out of the Quaker Oats cardboard tube, I'll usually not add a thing to it. The rare times I do, it's sliced banana and cinnamon.
     
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    I like oatmeal with a bit of butter, sugar, a splash of cream, and berries (usually blueberries). My mother liked oatmeal with butter and salt; nothing sweet.
     
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    I like it with a bit of cinnamon, a pat of butter, a fourth of a cup of raisins, and a teaspoon of sugar or a pack of aspartame.
     
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    With sugar-free maple flavored syrup.
     
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    My oatmeal has to be so thick that I can tip the bowl upside down before I add milk and sugar
     
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    Nope. For us, it's either Lucky Charms, Frosted Flakes or Honey Nut Cherrios. If not cereal for me, it's link/patty sausage, eggs, a diced fried potato and toast.

    Now, if I lived in a really cold area, like Wisconsin, North Dakota, Alaska or Canada, Oatmeal would probably be the thing to eat for breakfast.
     
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    Lots of sugar and a little dab of butter. No milk.
     
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    When I have oatmeal I like a good sized pat of butter
    I prefer a heavy cream but half & half will do.
    I like it sweet and the bestsweetnerfor oatmeal is sugar
     
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    We have oatmeal fairly often, especially in cold winter weather where I like something hot for breakfast. I have also tried rolled oats for making the “overnight oats”, and that is pretty good, too, and will probably be a better option for this summer.
    A while back, I got some of the steel cut oats (whole oats chopped up), and I think it has a much better flavor than the plain rolled oats.
    It is chewy and has almost a nutlike flavor. Very good. Some people eat it with vegetables like you might eat brown rice or bulgur wheat.

    Bobby has been talking about Ralston, a cereal that some of you probably remember. It was like oatmeal, but made from rolled wheat rather than rolled oats.
    I found it on Amazon , but it is expensive. Another one that I remember liking as a kid, was Roman Meal, which had both a cereal and a bread. It was my favorite brand of bread back in those days.

    Anyway, Bob’s Red Mill has a 5-grain rolled cereal that is about the same thing as was in the old Roman Meal cereal, so I ordered some of that for Bobby and I to try.
    When I was reading the reviews, one lady said she used it for bread, so I will probably try making a loaf of bread with it, too. I have not used the bread machine for a long time, so it is time to bring it out and put it to work making some healthy bread.
     
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    I have been alternating between having the steel cut oats for breakfast and having the muesli. The thing that I like about the steel cut oats is that they are hot, and I eat the muesli cold with an apple and yogurt. The steel cut oats, I also have with an apple , but I cook it along with the oats and then just add a little milk afterwards, so it is much hotter for this cold winter that we are having.
    It was time to order more steel cut oats, so I have been browsing amazon to decide which one to order this time. I really like the Bob’s Red Mill brand, and the Happy Belly amazon brand is also good, and much cheaper.
    However, I decided to try the McCann’s steel cut organic oatmeal. It costs more, but comes in a nice resealable can, that I would be able to reuse for any brand that I buy in the future.
    It has a really nice old-fashioned look to the can, and good reviews for the oats themselves.

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    Since Lon is no longer with us, I will refrain from my instinctive sarcastic answer that he looked forward to. I rarely eat oatmeal because it being my breakfast as a child for way too many years and additions of milk and honey were rationed. I mentioned to my folks that plentiful milk and honey were in the Bible and they replied that such would be something to look forward to when I reached heaven.

    I seldom eat oatmeal, but when I do, I always add honey and whipped cream just in case I am denied entrance at the pearly gates.
     
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    I've been eating them as well...Aldi's house brand. I like to add different fruits & spices. I always brown them in butter, and sometimes throw in fresh ginger root when simmering them in the milk.

    Good stuff!
     
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    I once read that milk & honey have that mystic aura because they are the only foods we eat that were made by other critters for the consumption of their young. I don't know why that would hold importance to humans.
     
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