Oatmeal

[roadie gal]

I have oatmeal almost every morning. I buy the bulk steel cut at my local organic foods store.

I put 1/2c oatmeal with 1c water and nuke it for 3 minutes. Then I add 1 tablespoon of nutritional yeast and some honey. I like the creamed honey from the local farmers.

If I'm going on a long hike or something like that in the morning I'll put raisins and some nuts in the oatmeal for extra calories.

[featuretile]

I use Muscle Milk Vanilla Shake protein powder (from Costco). It does have maltodextrin and sucralose. If you don't like that you could use honey, stevia, xylitol or nothing but the fruit. It's the oatbran mixed in with the oatmeal that gives it a much nicer consistency than plain oatmeal. When I tried cooking steel cut oats, it just took too much time for me.

[DebW]

My oatmeal the last 2 days contained raisins, 1/4 of a fresh apple, chopped, and a handful of fresh cranberries, cut in half.

[bluebug32]

I put 1/2c oatmeal with 1c water and nuke it for 3 minutes. .

Does this time amount really work for steel cut oats? Seems too easy!