Oatmeal, serving suggestions

[riptides]

Dice some fresh apples, put them on it.

Too sweet?

Cinnamon...

Need some tang?

Dried cranberries.

Enjoy!

 

[Ed of all trades]

We eat old fashioned oats every morning. I take about a cup of frozen blue berries and guess at about 1 1/2 cups solid, frozen strawberries and put them in the fridge every night and in the morning add 2 good sized bananas. Then I blend it all together with an immersion blender. and just pour a third on each bowl. My wife adds cinnamon and nuts to hers.
Every once and a while we will use applesauce or blended peaches. If you really want good oatmeal lightly brown the oatmeal in the bottom of the dry pan before you add water. For other Ideas look up porridge recipes on line. The people over in the British Isles take their porridge seriously. At leas it seems that way to me. Ed

 

[ustmd]

I have oatmeal everyday. I buy oatmeal, flax seeds, and red mill has a 10 grain and 5 grain hot breakfast. I will also mix in some pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, and or raisins. I also will mix in musel, which has a lot of the same and apples. I do not use the same ratio twice it keeps it fresh. I also use a bit of raw sugar on top microwave it for 1 min, and its done. I have been eating it for a few years now and I look forward to it. On saturday/sunday we will do pancakes etc but during the week its all that oatmeal mix.

Almost the same thing for me. I use the multi grain oatmeal. Cook it in the microwave with raison and slivered, blanched (no salt) almonds. Service it with some Splendia (no milk or butter) and I am good to go.

 

[dmccarty]

I used to work with a guy years ago who started eating oatmeal with cinnamon for breakfast to lower his cholesterol. He said it worked.

The Good Eat cooking show from years ago had a program on oatmeal that might be of interest. He used a crock pot to make the oat meal so it would be ready to eat in the morning. When I used to eat oat meal I would do what the other posters have suggested, add nuts, honey, sugar, fresh fruit, or dried fruit. Anything to make it a bit different. Never did use butter though I would add milk when I was a kid.

Later,
Dan

 

[NorTracNY]

I like to make large batches of granola cereal and eat it most mornings. oats, honey, oil, barley, raisins, cranberries, sunflower seeds, coconut, chia seeds...

For lowering cholesteral, I recently heard about pu-erh tea. I'm interested to see how my numbers change in a few months...

 

[GPintheMitten]

I would think variety of fruit and some nuts like almond. Try different stuff on different days to keep it interesting.

 

[Looking4new]

You guys have given me some good ideas to change up my boring oatmeal and apple juice breakfasts.

 

[QueBota]

Thanks guys, good to know I'm not alone, some great suggestions as always.

Hopefully some diet mods will help with the cholesterol, trying to avoid meds if possible, fathers side has a history of heart problems, want to avoid that. Doc wants me to try to drop about 20 lbs. I'm about 6' 2" and 255 lbs, probably could use to lose some weight, have a bit of a belly, had to move up to 40" waist from 38's. As I get older my winter weight isn't going away like it used to and I'm pretty active.

Oatmeal will never be as exciting as bacon, eggs, home fries and sausage or biscuits and gravy, have to do what you have to do.
Q

 

[sseelhoff]

Dice some fresh apples, put them on it.

Too sweet?

Cinnamon...

Need some tang?

Dried cranberries.

Enjoy!

If you like cranberries, try pomegranate some time. I mix some of that into oatmeal on occasion as well. Good stuff. Pomegranate is a super food, and excellent for heart health.

 

[Looking4new]

Summertime I do oatmeal and frozen strawberries with apple juice. The strawberries are a little too sweet for me tho.
I tried blueberries and they aren't bad.