Foods

I love my oats with:

Chopped green apple

Canned pumpkin

Blueberries

Grapes

A tsp of cocoa powder with splenda (7 added calories, and a rich chocolaty taste!)

Anybody got any new ideas? I've decided on oatmeal for dinner and was wondering how it would be on a sweet potato...? (I'm weird, i know! :-D)

Original Post by redkitty:

I eat steel cut oats every morning. Only thing i add is ground flax seed, cinnamon, nutmeg and either thawed frozen blueberries or dried figs. The figs bring up the calories quite a bit, so thats not very often.

If you are looking to add something sweet try apple sauce instead of sugar.

Since steel cut oats are the best oatmeal you can put in your body but take forever to cook, try making a big batch and reheat each serving in the morning. :)

I eat them every morning too! I also make a big batch and then just reheat some in the microwave. I can't go back to quick oats because I love the steel cuts so much. (I even wake up early every morning because I get excited to eat some) :)

I add protein powder, cinnamon, nutmeg, and splenda.

I just added 2 tablespoons of ground flaxseed to my maple & brown sugar instant oatmeal (yes I know it's not the healthiest for you but it's so much easier to make at work!) and I really liked it.  Way better than mixing the flaxseed in my yogurt. 

I just have a question here. I cook my steel cut in ten minutes. Just wondering why it takes 40 from some people to cook it. do I have a different kind of steel cut? I usually buy the irish one from  McCann's. I also soak them in water overnight.

i eat oatmeal for breakfast a few mornings a week; but i usually add different things every time. some of my favorites are applesauce and cinnamon, yogurt, blueberries, raisins or raspberries. like i said, it varies everytime.

but i always make my oatmeal (now) with organic vanilla silk. it gives it SUCH a good, creamy taste. it beats making it with water or regular milk by far, in my opinion.

switching my breakfast to oatmeal pretty much jump started my weight loss (i used to eat bowls upon bowls of cereal)...  i eat the quaker weight control oatmeal, keeps me pretty full until lunch. I'm just annoyed because although they sell regular instant quaker oatmeal in bulk at my local wholesale club, they don't sell the weight control one... and at the grocery store its like nearly $4 a box!!

Does soy milk or yogourt curdle when you add it to oatmeal?