How do you eat your oatmeal?

SpikeTailTurtle

I either eat mine with a banana sliced up in it. Or if I am craving the sweet two table spoons of brown sugar. Brown sugar is pointless calories but some days it's completely worth it. I always make sure my diet can incorporate things I like in moderation and that includes a little sugar or chocolate in my morning oats sometimes. ^_^

MKEgal

I agree with the "spoon" comment. Most sensible way I know of.

If I want hot oatmeal, I usually add walnuts & honey, often cinnamon, sometimes raisins.
Over the summer, I'll mix oats (dry) with yogurt & add some fruit. A peach is about right with 1 cup of greek yogurt. Sometimes some honey is good. Cardamom gives it sweetness too.

ASH2038602

I add blueberries, and honey. I recently tried it with peanut butter, didn't really care for it.

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_Zardoz_

It depends sometimes I will have it the Traditional Scottish way with a wee bit of salt. Or I will go all out with a mixture of dates coconut and banana. Blueberries with Maple syrup is another favourite

squishprincess

with fresh or frozen blueberries, raspberries, blackberries or strawberries. maybe a combo of those. maybe some honey or vanilla, some cinnamon. or i like to add walnuts or peanut butter, half a banana or apples. mmmmmm

scottacular

There's nothing wrong with nutella, don't get into that mindset of things being bad for you just because they're portrayed in a bad light by the media/overly paranoid dieters. It's not exactly a 'health food', but fitting it into your diet in moderation won't hurt you.

Anyway, as for your question - you could mix in flavoured whey, peanut butter, honey, maple syrup, cocoa, coconut oil into your oats. Or combine the last two (cocoa and coconut oil) and mix into a chocolate sauce and then stir it into your oats. If you feel like a treat get a chocolate bar that you like and after cooking/microwaving the oats melt them in. Great thing about oats is that you can pretty much mix anything into them.