Oatmeal Ideas?

elizabethblake

for everyone who likes the instant oats because they are quicker... i just pour boiling water over my old fashioned oats and it works well... not quite as mushy as the instant, but still very good. i even do this with my steel cut oats. they're a little harder that way (not too hard and i actually enjoy the texture more), but it only takes a couple minutes instead of 20 to cook them! you can easily add whatever you want to them after that... brown sugar, fresh fruit, cocoa powder, peanut butter, chocolate chips, maple syrup, whatever you want!

I do this too - every week day morning. I use the hot water from the coffee machine, don't even have to boil it.

Bumping for future reference!

RMinVA

Thanks for the tip ... I do have steelcut oats at my house, but i always find that I go back to the instant kind just because it already has the "mix-ins" already in it ... but I think I will try the original ones!

You are welcome. And most of the recipes I posted freeze really well too. So you bake once, and you are set for a week or two, depending on the batch size you make.

brendalyne

Bump!

Mallory0418

Comment for later. I really need to find a way to like oatmeal...

dlaplume2

I add 1/2 cup frozen blueberries, 1T ground flax seed and 1 T sweetend coconut flakes.

I have also done it with slivered almonds.

j_courter

i did try the pumpkin with my oatmeal this morning. it was yummy! i used 1/2 C old fashioned oats, 1/4 C pumpkin (canned), a sprinkle of cinnamon, and about 1 t. brown sugar. i'll bet pumpkin pie spice would be a great alternative for the plain cinnamon.

jkuhn71

Bumping to come back for baked oatmeal recipes - YUM!