Why is oatmeal

Plain oatmeal is gross. The key to good oatmeal is to use fruit and cook it in brown sugar water to add flavor. Raisins are good if you cook them in brown sugar as well, they swell up and taste great.

Im not fond of rolled oats to me they taste like glue no matter what I put in them

try Scottish oats
or
Irish oats
I cook mine in Almond milk and add vanilla some margarine and fruit

I love oatmeal cos its so easy to customise! Make it sweet, or savoury, into pancakes or cookies - hell you don't even have to cook it, just mix up some rolled oats with yogurt and fruit!

I could eat oatmeal for every meal. 1/4 milk, the rest water. 1 banana (half sliced and put in at the start of cooking, the other half sliced and added at the end), small handful of sultanas, sometimes half a tablespoon of maple syrup. Yummy

I can't eat oatmeal with sugar or fruit, I end up getting hungry pretty quickly afterward.

I like to throw in some chopped up rotisserie chicken. Other times I'll have it with a tbs of peanut butter.

I was raised eating oatmeal. Now I only eat the steel cut oats because I like the texture more than rolled oats. I normally eat oatmeal for breakfast about four times a week.

I don't like oatmeal (porridge) either OP.

If you find it so disgusting, would you be better off abandoning it altogether and eating something else with similar nutrient value?

I love oatmeal for breakfast...

grew up on that, cream of wheat and red river...all grains...

My mom always just boiled water and salt...then we covered it with brown sugar and butter...still eat it that way.

Sometimes she would make us put milk on it with brown sugar...eh...I eat it with butter and brown sugar to this day.

It's slimy....enough said :ohwell:

steel cut oats.

that is all.

I don't bother with cooking it, raw porridge oats + full fat milk + dried fruit = Awesome.

Carbs 131g, Fat 21g, Sat Fat 8g, Pro 29g, Fib 16g, Kcals 854

Here's my way of eating oatmeal.

1 (14oz) can of pumpkin
1 cup milk
1 cup water
1 cup oatmeal (I've been using Quaker old fashioned but just bought some steel cut to try)
1/4 tspn salt
1/2 tspn cinnamon
1/4 tspn cardamom (this in in the ginger family and kind of strong, might want just 1/8 tspn or none)
1/4 tspn cloves
1/4 tspn nutmeg
1 tspn vanilla extract (the real stuff)

Put all into a pan, stir to fully incorporate, bring to a boil then simmer for about 15 mins. This recipe makes four servings at approx 150 cals each or three servings at approx 200 cals each. Nice creamy texture, not mushy.

After it's cooked I add in whatever I'm in the mood for. Always 1 tblspn of brown sugar, flaxseed (you can add the flaxseed in while cooking too), pecan pieces, raisins, bananas, etc. Just adjust the cals for whatever you add in. Total cals usually come in around 300 per serving (I divide the recipe into thirds).

You can also sub vanilla almond milk for the reg milk to reduce some cals but you're also reducing protein when you do this. I've found that if I just eat oatmeal my blood sugar likes to take a bit of a dip so I usually eat a cheese stick about an hour after I eat the oatmeal,.

Just a thought ... maybe add some powdered egg whites into the oatmeal while cooking for added protein without a lot of added cals. Not too sure how this would cook up, have to give it a try.

I eat oatmeal a lot. I made a big batch with oatmeal, cinnamon, and raisins. I add 1/2 cup of it to 1 cup boiling water, cook and stir for a couple minutes. Then I add homemade jam. Less than a tablespoon. Makes me happy.