I can only eat oatmeal with brown sugar.

Yum!

This sounds interesting. Can you share the ratio of water and yoghurt to oats? I'd like to try doing this, cuz right now I'm eating a bagel and an egg every morning and I want to get off that schneid...SmileWavy

We get steel cut oats from Costco and bags of almonds. I toast the almonds in the micro for a minute (put a layer in a paper plate). They add great flavor along with the milk, butter, & honey.

I put milk on mine. I use the trader joe's stuff. Roasted almond slices, flax seed make it more nutty. I also add cinnamon and rasins. Always cut some fruit in it - banana is go-to. Mango is awesome but not available year round.

I have branched out to cottage cheese with friut but until then it has been 15 years on daily oatmeal. Served me well, I think, especially in terms of digestion.

G

Took oatmeal to work everyday (Quaker Oats (not that instant crap) almonds, craisens) for breakfast. Tasted great and was filling, but was very hungry a few hours later and had very low energy when I went running at lunch. Ate after.

Just read two days ago in the book FOOD by Mark Hyman, M.D. that oatmeal places havoc on blood sugar by causing a massive insulin reaction followed by a crash in blood sugar level. That explains why most runs sucked. When you are massively hungry, then you tend to over eat at your next meal.

Ate it every day after my MI. Add my own cinnamon and Splenda. Then one day my body and brain said "No more" and I had to cook bacon and eggs. Now I have fruit and toast (whole wheat) and various toppings.

Oatmeal microwaved in water and a bit salt. First thing in the morning and last thing before bed.

Ate it all of the time when I was younger all the way thru college. I then discovered eggs over easy with corn beef hash. On the weekends, its eggs: omelets or over easy.

Here's the recipe that the missus uses.

I like it, especially during the winter months, and it is part of my routine training regimen prior to long-distance races. I like the steel-cut type, and typically only put a handful of blueberries on top.

I may have to try the steel cut oats... Been eating the Quaker instant stuff every morning at work while doing the morning email thing for years.

Whole Foods instant Apple Cinnamon oatmeal with Grape Nuts on top for pre-ride breakfast.
On other days I add vanilla yogurt and a banana.

Quaker makes Steel Cut also--and it takes a few minutes to cook, but it's well worth the effort!

I was never an oatmeal eater. Then I came across the instant flavored stuff from Quaker. Now I eat it all the time.

Dried cranberries are also a great topping, along with walnuts.

Always. Put it all in the insta-pot with a little vanilla and it is perfect. One of the things an insta-pot is great for.

Oh, it is always the real maple not that pancake syrup stuff.

Dude, that is BS. Oatmeal is not a refined carb. It takes a long time to digest and there are no spikes as a result. Your issue most likely were the CRASINS. That's loaded with added sugars. 1/4 cup CRASINS have 29g of sugar (!). There is your issue ... that will make things spike at breakfast!

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And put them in tortillas? http://forums.pelicanparts.com/support/smileys/chef.gif

oatmeal is a complex carb. (i think..i am pretty sure, isnt it?)