Oatmeal, UGH!

Sugar Free Vanilla Syrup, cinnamon & blueberries. YUM! Don't add the blueberries until after it is done cooking. They make your oatmeal cool enough to eat and they don't get over cooked.

I have oatmeal pretty much most days. I put green apples (sliced) into a pot with a little water and boil them with cinnamon (it only takes about 2 minutes), put my oatmeal into the micro, and then add a touch of almond milk and the apples. I also sometimes add bananas, pecans, maple syrup, honey, or blueberries depending on my mood or my calorie predictions for the day (syrup, honey, and nuts are higher, obv)

I get frozen oatmeal from Fresh & Easy. I pop it out of the container into the bowl and voila!!! Awesomeness.

I throw in blueberries and goji berries when I am making mine, the blueberries explode a little and sweeten it, the goji berries keep me fuller, I also add some ground flax seeds (golden have a milder taste if you don't care for the taste of them.)

I make it with milk instead of water and use steel cut oats. That way I don't end up with wall paper paste/glue. I also decided right at the beginning that I would use honey or syrup as a sweetener. Prefer to take the calorie hit at breakfast and cut back a bit later if I have to.

bland is a good word - but do you know that oatmeal doesn't have to be sweet? I saw an article titled "sexy oatmeal" and it's wonderful. You soft cook an egg so it's still just a little runny, put it on your cooked oatmeal and pierce it so it runs; mix with salt and pepper and some parmesean. It's AWESOME!

There are lots of things you can do to not add many calories, cocoa, fruit bits, almond extract, strawberry extract - just a couple drops of extracts will really punch up your flavor. Vanilla! yum. Hubs uses splenda's brown sugar and some healthy butter and cinnamon. I've also put splenda, fat free creamer, cocoa and instant coffee - but I love the flavor of sweet dessert coffee.

applesauce!!

or apple butter or pumpkin butter

The orange PEEL will have more orange flavor. If you don't have a "zester" ... you can use a really sharp knife to cut away the pith (that's the tasteless white backing) away from the peel. Then chop the peel really fine.

Maple extract? along with a bit of brown sugar. Vanilla extract & craisins maybe

You could toast the oats (before cooking... adds a little nuttyness) then add peanut butter

If you are adverse to oatmeal texture at all ..... steel cut oats are so good. Coach's brand are instant steel cut (they are already toasted) and cook in 5 minutes..... so good.

Try steel cut oats. They taste better and the texture is soooooooo much better. I put fruit in mine. Sometimes a spoon of honey. Frozen blueberries are my fav.

I finally bought some more yesterday, had been out a while. The steel cut oats cost a little more so I only buy them when I'm at store in Fort Worth, they have it in bulk there and it's about $3 less than quaker or another brand.

I eat more of it in the winter though.

AMEN to the Steel Cut Oats - Bob's Red Mill is my favorite brand. http://www.bobsredmill.com/steel-cut-oats.html (check the review section here for some ideas on cooking & serving)

It takes longer to cook, but the texture is so worth it.

I like mine with brown sugar, though..........prolly not what you were looking for. Some of the other ideas here are excellent!

My oatmeal today came out tasting like PB fudge brownie batter- similar texture too.

40 g Rolled Oats
16 g ground flax seed
20 g Creamy Natural PB
10 g Hershey's unsweetened cocoa
13 g PB2 (probably could have done one or the other PB or PB2 but I keep the PB for the fat)
3 servings Stevia (to taste, will depend how bitter you like cocoa to be)
Pinch of Salt
1.25 cups water

Microwave for 3:30 in microwavable bowl, then add:
1.5 Servings Chocolate Protein Powder

Now, I eat huge IF meals, so my oatmeal is probably double the calories you would want if you eat smaller meals, if so, halve the quantities listed.

Real maple syrup works for me and a little milk so it's not pasty..

You soft cook an egg so it's still just a little runny, put it on your cooked oatmeal and pierce it so it runs; mix with salt and pepper and some parmesean. It's AWESOME!

mind. blown.

I bet this would be good with quinoa too....

Raw Honey, Agava, Raisins, Raw Sugar, Nuts, Cranberries, Cinnamon :flowerforyou:

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THIS

i enjoy flax seed & wheat germ

i like to scoop two tablespoons of peanut butter right into the pot, as it's all cooking. i put all the ingredients in at once, except the toppings, so it cooks evenly.

also, chop up an apple as a topping.

Salt. Just add a little and it can really give it flavor. Even if you sweeten it, add a little salt.