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I'm new..I read alot of folks are eating oatmeal in the mornings...what are you putting on it?
Thanks!

A diced apple or pear (cooked with the oatmeal to sweeten it) and a sprinkle of cinnamon. No need to add sugar
Kate

thanks so much Kate......going to read you story now...thanks again!

I LOVE oatmeal and particularly steel cut (texture) I always add cinnamon and fruit with favorites being mango, banana or blueberries.

Enjoy your oats!

Thanks Denise, tomorrow I will have oatmeal with apples and mangoes (which are everywhere here in thailand and cheap this time a year) and some a little cinnamon.
I guess as big a bowl as i wish if eaten like this....Do not have by book yet and learning as i go for now....Don

oatmeal, equal parts water, frozen fruit, 1/3 can pumpkin and leave it sit in the fridge overnight. In the morning I add a big handfull of kale, as I always have a big container of massaged kale (kale and lemon/lime juice) in the fridge. I like to eat it cold, sometimes I will add apple pie or pumpkin pie spice but not too often.

I cook 1 c rolled oats in bowl covered by 1/2 inch with water in microwave one minute. Top with real ( not cassia) cinnamon and berries. Plus ground flax. This morning I added some pieces of collard on top and cooked 2 minutes . Needed a bigger bowl for that. On half my bowl I then sprinkled turmeric, black pepper, and nutritional yeast and 2 walnut haves, broken up. The savory half was just as delicious, and I think greens are filling for longer, though this was very little and may not matter much. No milk.

My super-ultra-lazy approach to oatmeal:

Two handfuls of rolled oats, toss in some chopped dried dates, dried cranberries, chia seeds, ground flax seeds, almond milk. Amounts are really nonspecific, to taste. Let this mixture sit a bit as the almond milk soaks in. Result is a slightly creamy yet chewy mixture w/o the pastiness of cooked oatmeal some object to. Depending on your health issues, consider the impact of the sugar in the dried fruits. Since there is no cooking, you can toss this together, walk away, do other things and when you come back, it's ready for you.

Munch on in rosey-cheeked glowing good health.

Velvet

A little maple syrup.
Banana and strawberries.
Blueberries.
Cranberries.
Apples.
Really any fruit that you like and will eat.

I add frozen fruit of my choice (usually peaches and cherries) or fresh fruit (usually chopped apple) to old fashioned oats. Add water. Nuke 4 min. Add cinnamon and a little maple syrup and enjoy.

I do the exact same thing w/ sweet taters, only those get nuked alone first -- 10-12 min. depending on size. Then I add the fruit, nuke 4 min., and add cinnamon and m. syrup.

Thanks eveyone for the reply.

I stewed one sweet apple, cut up one mango and made some oatmeal.....sprinkled cinnamon on top and ate it...It was more then yummy and held me easy until lunch.... thanks all!!!!

One part old fashion regular oatmeal, 2 part water, nuke it for a min then pause for few seconds, nuke it again for another minute, this is so that it doesn't boil off and gets thrown inside microwave. Cut up banana in small pieces, few blue frozen blue berries, 4-5 raisins, few walnuts cut up in small pieces, 1 tbsp flax seed...mix it all together and down it goes. Tastes very yummy!!! I did not like oatmeal before...now I can eat it too much.

I use a 4-cup Pyrex measuring cup for my oatmeal and use 1 cup water, 1/2 cup old fashioned oats, plus the fruit. I can nuke it on High in my high-powered microwave for 2 minutes and and it comes out perfect with no boil-over.

HI Ellen,

You and blondie like flex added...what does it do? Do you add it for taste or health or maybe both? Thanks ladies...Don