Oatmeal for breakfast

[Irulan]

I'm into it. :-)
Has anyone ever tried cooking up a few day's worth, and just reheating your portion in the morning? I'm trying different versions of the non-quick cooking kind. It seems like it would be way more efficient to cook up 4 days' worth, keep it in the fridge, and reheat it. Anyone?

[GLC1968]

I used to do that with steel cut oats. It worked great except the one time I hit the wrong button and nuked it to death.

[Irulan]

I was just reading about using a rice cooker for oats. I don't have a fancy one with multiple settings (including "porridge") Has anyone used a rice cooker for oats?

[carlotta]

I do it with steel cut oats as well. I pour them into a container when they're hot, then cut a square of whatever size I want for breakfast, and mash them around in a bowl with milk before I nuke 'em. It might work without that step, but they certainly seem to become one solid blob in the fridge. Super quick, easy, and tasty.

[OakLeaf]

I haven't used a rice cooker for oats, but I tried it with barley ... once. It foamed WAY too much and spewed through the vent, awful time cleaning it up. Oats foam even worse than barley. I wouldn't try it.

I just finished a batch of steel cut oats. It definitely took some finagling for it not to explode in the nuculator. The first couple of bowls ... I'll just say I spent more time cleaning than eating.

[GLC1968]

I used my rice cooker for oats...twice. Both times it was a huge disaster! It was really really gross, gummy and slimy. It made a mess of the cooker and the resulting oats were not edible (unless I was willing to scrape them off the counter top!). And I do have a 'porridge' setting!

I have had the best luck with either stovetop or in the slow cooker in a steam bath (the oats sit in a bowl inside the cooker in a couple of inches of water). The best part about this method was that they cooked overnight and I had hot oats when I woke up with no work (and easy clean up).

[Crankin]

Oatmeal makes me hungry. Seriously. I eat it 2-3 times a week, but if I don't have some serious protein with it, my stomach is rumbling in an hour. I even put walnuts or almonds in my oatmeal, but that doesn't seem to help.
Does anyone else have this issue?

[malkin]

For rolled oats, I don't even cook it.

[OakLeaf]

Oatmeal makes me hungry. Seriously. I eat it 2-3 times a week, but if I don't have some serious protein with it, my stomach is rumbling in an hour. I even put walnuts or almonds in my oatmeal, but that doesn't seem to help.
Does anyone else have this issue?

Yep. That. I was laughing because DH bought the oats and I wound up eating so much of it even though I don't digest it well.

[Owlie]

Oatmeal makes me hungry. Seriously. I eat it 2-3 times a week, but if I don't have some serious protein with it, my stomach is rumbling in an hour. I even put walnuts or almonds in my oatmeal, but that doesn't seem to help.
Does anyone else have this issue?

I'm the same way. I put peanut butter or nuts in it, and it's okay if I'm not working out, but if I want to ride, I I have to put so much PB into it that I may as well be eating the PB out of the jar. All of that stuff in the oatmeal just binds to all the fat and protein and it's gone.

[lph]

Oatmeal makes me hungry. Seriously. I eat it 2-3 times a week, but if I don't have some serious protein with it, my stomach is rumbling in an hour. I even put walnuts or almonds in my oatmeal, but that doesn't seem to help.
Does anyone else have this issue?

Yup, me too. No digestive issues, it just doesn't work. I'm starving within an hour or two. Hiking I will eat uncooked muesli with generous helpings of milk powder over, and I have to forcefeed myself like a goose for it to last past packing the tent... Add some chocolate however, and we're talking

[GLC1968]

Oatmeal makes me hungry. Seriously. I eat it 2-3 times a week, but if I don't have some serious protein with it, my stomach is rumbling in an hour. I even put walnuts or almonds in my oatmeal, but that doesn't seem to help.
Does anyone else have this issue?

Me too. That's partly why I don't eat it anymore. Honestly, all cereal grains do that to me....Even if I eat until I'm stuffed, an hour later, I want more.

I used to do oatmeal AND eggs in the morning and that seemed to work better for hunger control. Then when I dropped out the oatmeal and realized that the eggs held me just as long without the oats, I was sold.

[Sky King]

Oatmeal makes me hungry. Seriously. I eat it 2-3 times a week, but if I don't have some serious protein with it, my stomach is rumbling in an hour. I even put walnuts or almonds in my oatmeal, but that doesn't seem to help.
Does anyone else have this issue?

Ha, I was complaining about this to my DH and he says "so go eat something" He eats six times a day and is as skinny as a rail I am not that lucky but I do eat a banana now mid morning on days I eat oatmeal and that gets me through to lunch time.

[snapdragen]

I haven't heard of using a rice cooker, but I've been meaning to try cooking steel cut oats overnite in the crockpot.

[Irulan]

Steel cut takes a lot longer in the microwave.