Try mixing in some frozen strawberries with the instant oatmeal and cooking a little longer. Makes plain oatmeal taste pretty good, without a boatload of sugar.
Try using Maple Syrup or Honey on the oatmeal, and instead of raisins, try dried cranberries. Also, if you can’t stand the texture of the instant oatmeal, try the 5 min quick oats, or if you have half an our, “Steel Cut” oats. The different processing techniques lead to a different kind of oatmeal.
I cook steel cut oats with a pinch of salt, dried currants, raisins or cranberries, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg and powdered buttermilk. You can make a bunch, refrigerate it and microwave it the next day. In a hurry, the quick cook stuff is OK but pinhead or steel cut oats really are different.
When I was in college I discovered a pretty good way to make oatmeal palatable. I combined, in a bowl, some “Safeway Select” cookie dough ice cream and some “Dr. Skipper.” I mixed until it had a roughly milkshake-y consistency and then sprinkled on granola or Cap’n Crunch. Delicious AND nutritious!
I use yogurt… blueberry. You can either take a bite of oatmeal and chase it down with yogurt, or just mix them together — but sometimes that’s just as bland.
Eat oatmeal with orange juice and you’re eating a ‘superfood’
Okay, already this is just too much on oatmeal….
Ok…think I’m going to need a definition of “superfood” now…
Superfoods are awesome. Oatmeal is good for maintaining blood sugar, good protein/carb and nutrient source- toss in a high quality nutritious orange juice and you have pretty much everything you need to start your day.
I second Joe’s recommendation, I use a dab butter, honey AND brown sugar in mine- typically of the steel cut variety…and it is always fantastic. My s/o has been making the instant stuff a little better than straight out of the pack- but it is flavored stuff. Fruit is a good way to make it tasty- I added some Oregon Blackberries (in light syrup) to some Irish Steel Cut a while ago for me and a friend and we ate like 3-4 servings a piece (again like two kinds of yummy good sugar sources, honey and butter in it).
Milk works too, but if you’re lactose intolerant just a dab of butter is better.
butter , brown sugar, fruit. i hate oatmeal, but it’s cheep, it’s warm, and i can stomach it. i mean, a weeks worth of food for about $2. i cant beat that. that means i still have money left over for beer and or coffee.
My oatmeal-disliking wife seasons it with things like those salty Japanese pickled plums, or even just salt and pepper. That’s to say, she treats it like a vegetable.
I’ve tried milk, honey and maple syrup, but the oatmeal still tastes like warm nothing in an unpleasantly chunky format. It’s raisins and diminished expectations from now on.
Instead of boiling oatmeal in water, use orange juice. It tastes like something that should be sold everywhere.
I hate to be the only one to ask, but what is in ‘oriental’ trail mix that makes it more ‘oriental’ than regular trail mix?
Return of the Banana Chips
Banana Chips Strike Back
A New Hope for Banana Chips
The Phantom Banana Chip Menace
Attack of the Cloned Banana Chips
Revenge of the Banana Chips
Personally, I like oatmeal. But if you hate oatmeal, how do you feel about brown rice for breakfast? You can go the american breakfast route with it (sweet fruity things) or the asian breakfast route (eggy salty fishy oniony things).
I am a big proponent of instant oatmeal. My favorite thing to add is peanut butter and apple sauce (both the “no sugar added” varieties.) The peanut butter grants additional protein and a richer consistency throughout. The apple sauce is just f***ing tasty! If you find the texture too lumpy, add more liquid before heating it or add more apple sauce after.
I wonder how banana chips and peanut butter would fair together in oatmeal…
That’s it. I am totally starting a food blog now. In 12 months I will rule the internets.
My husband, Ryan, hates mornings, and he too would eat oatmeal out of a sense of duty. But he would try to microwave it, and it always, without fail, exploded all over into a mess of boiling hot starch. And then, in his addled morning state, he would reach in and try to grab the bowl right away, burning his poor fingers.
So I found this recipe – it sounds way fancier than it is. I make them once a week and refrigerate the rest for the remainder of the week. They are soft oat bars – you can mess around with more vanilla, or honey instead of brown sugar, or dried apricots instead of raisins, or a little more egg for a thicker bar… seriously, the most convenient and tasty way to eat oatmeal.
The other thing: do not start every day eating a food you hate. This is not a good approach to life.
I’m sorry I was so flabbergasted when I met you at the convention — I don’t often meet the people I admire. I laughed for a while after I got this in the mail (with my sister giving me weird looks as she walked by) because I’m studying to be a registered dietitian at the UA. Thank you for the comics!
Try mixing in some frozen strawberries with the instant oatmeal and cooking a little longer. Makes plain oatmeal taste pretty good, without a boatload of sugar.
Try using Maple Syrup or Honey on the oatmeal, and instead of raisins, try dried cranberries. Also, if you can’t stand the texture of the instant oatmeal, try the 5 min quick oats, or if you have half an our, “Steel Cut” oats. The different processing techniques lead to a different kind of oatmeal.
I cook steel cut oats with a pinch of salt, dried currants, raisins or cranberries, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg and powdered buttermilk. You can make a bunch, refrigerate it and microwave it the next day. In a hurry, the quick cook stuff is OK but pinhead or steel cut oats really are different.
When I was in college I discovered a pretty good way to make oatmeal palatable. I combined, in a bowl, some “Safeway Select” cookie dough ice cream and some “Dr. Skipper.” I mixed until it had a roughly milkshake-y consistency and then sprinkled on granola or Cap’n Crunch. Delicious AND nutritious!
I use yogurt… blueberry. You can either take a bite of oatmeal and chase it down with yogurt, or just mix them together — but sometimes that’s just as bland.
Eat oatmeal with orange juice and you’re eating a ‘superfood’
Okay, already this is just too much on oatmeal….
Ok…think I’m going to need a definition of “superfood” now…
Superfoods are awesome. Oatmeal is good for maintaining blood sugar, good protein/carb and nutrient source- toss in a high quality nutritious orange juice and you have pretty much everything you need to start your day.
I second Joe’s recommendation, I use a dab butter, honey AND brown sugar in mine- typically of the steel cut variety…and it is always fantastic. My s/o has been making the instant stuff a little better than straight out of the pack- but it is flavored stuff. Fruit is a good way to make it tasty- I added some Oregon Blackberries (in light syrup) to some Irish Steel Cut a while ago for me and a friend and we ate like 3-4 servings a piece (again like two kinds of yummy good sugar sources, honey and butter in it).
Milk works too, but if you’re lactose intolerant just a dab of butter is better.
butter , brown sugar, fruit. i hate oatmeal, but it’s cheep, it’s warm, and i can stomach it. i mean, a weeks worth of food for about $2. i cant beat that. that means i still have money left over for beer and or coffee.
My oatmeal-disliking wife seasons it with things like those salty Japanese pickled plums, or even just salt and pepper. That’s to say, she treats it like a vegetable.
I’ve tried milk, honey and maple syrup, but the oatmeal still tastes like warm nothing in an unpleasantly chunky format. It’s raisins and diminished expectations from now on.
Instead of boiling oatmeal in water, use orange juice. It tastes like something that should be sold everywhere.
I hate to be the only one to ask, but what is in ‘oriental’ trail mix that makes it more ‘oriental’ than regular trail mix?
Return of the Banana Chips
Banana Chips Strike Back
A New Hope for Banana Chips
The Phantom Banana Chip Menace
Attack of the Cloned Banana Chips
Revenge of the Banana Chips
Personally, I like oatmeal. But if you hate oatmeal, how do you feel about brown rice for breakfast? You can go the american breakfast route with it (sweet fruity things) or the asian breakfast route (eggy salty fishy oniony things).
I am a big proponent of instant oatmeal. My favorite thing to add is peanut butter and apple sauce (both the “no sugar added” varieties.) The peanut butter grants additional protein and a richer consistency throughout. The apple sauce is just f***ing tasty! If you find the texture too lumpy, add more liquid before heating it or add more apple sauce after.
I wonder how banana chips and peanut butter would fair together in oatmeal…
That’s it. I am totally starting a food blog now. In 12 months I will rule the internets.
My husband, Ryan, hates mornings, and he too would eat oatmeal out of a sense of duty. But he would try to microwave it, and it always, without fail, exploded all over into a mess of boiling hot starch. And then, in his addled morning state, he would reach in and try to grab the bowl right away, burning his poor fingers.
So I found this recipe – it sounds way fancier than it is. I make them once a week and refrigerate the rest for the remainder of the week. They are soft oat bars – you can mess around with more vanilla, or honey instead of brown sugar, or dried apricots instead of raisins, or a little more egg for a thicker bar… seriously, the most convenient and tasty way to eat oatmeal.
http://chocolateandzucchini.com/archives/2004/03/oatmeal_breakfast_clafoutis.php
The other thing: do not start every day eating a food you hate. This is not a good approach to life.
I’m sorry I was so flabbergasted when I met you at the convention — I don’t often meet the people I admire. I laughed for a while after I got this in the mail (with my sister giving me weird looks as she walked by) because I’m studying to be a registered dietitian at the UA. Thank you for the comics!