Oatmeal for breakfast

[Desert Tortoise]

I don't know about preparing oats days in advance. It seems like they would get mushy but the idea of undercooking sounds interesting.

Like so many, I too get hungry after about 1 hour of eating oatmeal. I found if I add 1/2 of a chopped apple to the oatmeal, I'm ok for about 2 hours. Not much better.

For breakfast, this feels useless. By mid-morning I want something hearty like beans with chicken and salsa and tortillas. But for lunch, the oatmeal with apples seems to work just fine. My afternoon snack is more normal like fruit with nuts or seeds and its satisfying.

[marni]

another vote for making up steel cut oats ad or quioa with or without dried fruit ad nuts ahead of time and keeping it in the fridge/ 2 cups of water and 1/2 cup of steel cut oats or quinoa and 1/2 cup mixed dried fruit and or nut makes for days worth.

Cut out a portion, thow in some (coconut) milk nuke for three minutes at 50%, mash aound and eat.

My idea of an instat breakfast!

manri

[Dogmama]

I add a scoop of cottage cheese after the oats are done cooking. Mix it up really well, add some pecans & a little sweetener - voila. Non-fat cottage cheese doesn't do it for me - needs to be low fat. Some dried fruits (raisins, cranberries, cherries, whatever) is a nice touch too.

So, you get fiber, protein and fat. Great combination to keep you going until lunch.

[azfiddle]

I really like the Trader Joe's quick steel cut oats. 5-7 minutes, dried cranberries or raisins, a little brown sugar, sometimes some toasted pecans and a dollop of milk. I also like fresh fruit sometimes, like berries or fresh peaches. When I know I'm going to do a more energetic ride, I'll throw in a spoonful of nutella.

[Dogmama]

I really like the Trader Joe's quick steel cut oats. 5-7 minutes, dried cranberries or raisins, a little brown sugar, sometimes some toasted pecans and a dollop of milk. I also like fresh fruit sometimes, like berries or fresh peaches. When I know I'm going to do a more energetic ride, I'll throw in a spoonful of nutella.

Do you microwave it? Sounds yummy!

[surgtech1956]

Dogmama, about how much cottage cheese do you mix into how much oatmeal? Sounds yummy

[Irulan]

I have been living my my spouse this summer and he is a vegetarian and eats a lot of grains. So, I have been eating what he eats. I gained weight over the summer, and quite a bit over the last two months when my riding was restricted due to winter weather. I am headed south and will spend most of the winter alone, I will go back to meat eating and more careful calorie counting. (It is hard to count when you aren't the cook). I think I will do better cutting most of the grains.

That said, I have been doing six month cholesterol tests to see where my levels are at since losing weight and mucking around with my diet. I just got a test done. I am up ten pounds and have been eating vegetarian for the last six months. Mostly Indian cooking done by my spouse. Lots of vegetables. Lots of grains. No meat. Almost no eggs. I do drink milk though my spouse does not. I also ate a fair amount of cheese, often with an apple for breakfast. My lipid levels have not been this good in years. My good cholesterol is up 20 points, which is huge.

Humph.

When I was at my lowest weight last spring and was eating hardly any grains and heavier on the meat (though it lower fat meat, eg, I take the skin off of chicken, etc) my levels were much worse.

I guess everyone differs. I still do not want to be at my current weight so I am going back to my prior diet. Probably. I'm still thinking this through.

I may retain having oatmeal for supper.

Here's my two cents. I've seen this a lot with vegetarians! Grain, carb heavy maybe heavy in dairy = weight gain and high cholesterol. My sis had this exact kind of health issue. She ate like this for years, and ended up being borderline diabetic and high cholesterol. She add lean protein ( fish, chicken) and cut the bagels, rice and beans and within 6 months shed lost 20 lbs and got her blood sugars under control.

[goldfinch]

Here's my two cents. I've seen this a lot with vegetarians! Grain, carb heavy maybe heavy in dairy = weight gain and high cholesterol. My sis had this exact kind of health issue. She ate like this for years, and ended up being borderline diabetic and high cholesterol. She add lean protein ( fish, chicken) and cut the bagels, rice and beans and within 6 months shed lost 20 lbs and got her blood sugars under control.

Except that isn't what happened with me. I got weight gain but lower bad cholesterol and higher good cholesterol (totals are lower than before) and my blood sugar is great. By all measures except weight gain the vegetarian diet has been good for me. Even my BP is down.