Oatmeal

[nscrbug]

I eat an oatmeal, oatbran cereal mix every morning. It's easy, tastes great and has lots of nutrition.
1/4 regular oatmeal
1/4 oatbran
a few raisons (keeps it from boiling over in the microwave)
7/8 cups water
Microwave for 2 minutes (if using frozen blueberries), then one minute more
or
Microwave 3 minutes and add fresh fruit
Add:
1TB flax seed
2 TB vanilla protein powder
cinnamon
milk
Doesn't need any sugar, and you get some protein. It's ready by the time my coffee is done. Enjoy!

Hmmm...interesting idea adding the protein powder. I'll have to try that the next time. I've never done anything "hot" with protein powder before, because I always feared it would clump up...but I'll give it a go.

[sah]

Porridge setting on the Zojirushi heat induction rice cooker works for steel cut oatmeal. The warmer will keep the oatmeal warm for hours. Also the rice setting for harder works for quinoa.

[featuretile]

You don't cook the protein powder - just stir it in after it is cooked. It just dissolves. You don't get hungry as fast if you add the protein powder.

[GLC1968]

You don't cook the protein powder - just stir it in after it is cooked. It just dissolves. You don't get hungry as fast if you add the protein powder.

If you put it in before you cook it, it will absorb most of your liquid and really give you a totally differently textured oatmeal. Don't ask me how I know this. Stirring it in after it's cooked is MUCH easier!

I do find that mixing it in after it's cooked actually makes my oatmeal 'creamier' which for me, is a bad thing. I can see how most people would probably really like it, though.

[bluebug32]

You don't cook the protein powder - just stir it in after it is cooked. It just dissolves. You don't get hungry as fast if you add the protein powder.

What kind of protein powder do you use? It seems like so many are filled with artificial sweeteners. I'd like to find one that doesn't have much taste to it so I can blend it with other things.

[OakLeaf]

@bluebug, I don't put protein powder in hot cereal (tried it and thought it was gross), but what I use in cold cereal and smoothies is Garden of Life Raw Protein Powder. Definitely no sweeteners of any kind, mixes well, not really chalky, and an ingredients list that doesn't scare me at all.

[bluebug32]

Thanks, Oakleaf. I'll have to look for this at my health food store.

And, by the way, I love this thread. My family makes fun of me for the amount of oatmeal I consume. I literally buy it in bulk 15lbs at a time. And I love steel cut oats, too, especially from the crock pot.

[Catrin]

Add butter, milk, and brown sugar or raw honey.

A little trail mix does pretty well too.

I add skim milk and either trail mix or peanut butter. I prefer the trail mix myself. I also like to toss in some frozen blueberries - I freeze a LOT of them when they are in season.

[malkin]

I just by the frozen blueberries @ Costco.

[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!

[jolie]

Eat nut for everyday is good for supplement cerebrum nutrition

[emily_in_nc]

Eat nut for everyday is good for supplement cerebrum nutrition

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