What the heck do I do with oatmeal now?

Top it off with something yummy: walnuts, pecans, raisins, cranberries, a sliced strawberry, few banana slices, dark chocolate chips, granola...

Either soak them overnight with almond milk for a nice porridge in the morning, or add milk to oats (about 1/4 cup of each) and layer this mixture with Greek yogurt and berries and put in the fridge...

Make it savory!

Everyone thinks of oatmeal as a sweet breakfast, but there's no reason to not make it savory! Use it like you would grits, or quinoa, or any other grain- add in some cheesey goodness, sauteed onions, top with crumbled bacon and a poached or sunny side up egg and BAM! a hearty/healthy start to your day.

Obviously the above is just to get your brain thinking- you could add garlic, herbs, scramble your egg- whatever style you like. maybe a little sausage or chorizo. The possibilities are endless.

Marking for tomorrow. I will be back. A friend gave me a slow cooker recipe with cinnamon and almond milk. I add berries and slivered almonds. So tasty. Once cooked it will last me all week. Quick breakfasts!

A tablespoon of peanut butter works wonders in oatmeal

Smarts to learn:

Steel cut oats use a 4:1 liquid to oats ratio. You can use any combination with the liquid – water, soy milk, almond milk, normal milk – all work
If you don’t have a slow cooker, bring the ingredients to boil and then simmer for 45 minutes, stirring here and there to make sure it doesn’t stick to the bottom of the pan
Slow Cooker Steel Cut Oatmeal

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Prep time
5 mins
Cook time
8 hours
Total time
8 hours 5 mins

Most of us are too busy to make breakfast in the morning, so a big pot of steel cut oatmeal made in a slow cooker is the perfect solution to make sure you always have a healthy meal to start the day
Author: Jess Dang
Recipe type: Make Ahead Breakfast
Serves: 10-12
Ingredients

Steel cut oats – 2 cups
Water – 6 cups
Milk (any type) – 2 cups
Butter – 2 tbs.
Apples, peeled & chopped (optional) – 2 to 3
Brown sugar – ¼ cup
Kosher salt – 2 tsp.
Cinnamon – 1 tbs.
Star anise (optional) – 2 to 3

Optional: Give the slow cooker a quick spray of cooking oil or brush with cooking oil to prevent sticking of ingredients
Put all ingredients in a slow cooker
Cover and cook on low for 8 hours or 4 hours on high
Top with nuts, yogurt, fruit, jams, coconut shavings!
Steel cut oats use a 4:1 liquid to oats ratio. You can use any combination with the liquid – water, soy milk, almond milk, milk all work
If you don’t have a slow cooker, bring the ingredients to boil and then simmer for 45 minutes, stirring here and there to make sure it doesn’t stick to the bottom of the pan

I make porrige using oatmeal and milk (in a 1:2 proportion by volume), I also use powdered milk and water (both habits from my student days)

you can do it in a pan, but I use a microwave (saves on washing up)

make sure you use a wide shallow bowl so it doesn't "pop" and go all over the microwave

I do one minute then stir and repeat 2-4 times

then put anything you like on top - or nothing

reading is hard. Thanks.

In a saucepan just put about double the water (or milk) as oatmeal and heat it up with a pinch of salt. Boil it for awhile. If it's too watery after awhile remove the lid to evaporate the water to thicken it a little. It will thicken more while cooling to be cool enough to eat.

One minute oatmeal can be cooked in the micro or pan for one minute. Normal oatmeal takes around 20 mins.

Instant oatmeal in packets you just pour hot water and bam, eats time

Top with any of the things mentioned here. I prefer to make mine with milk and then top with butter and maple syrup. Sometimes straight sugar is fine. Sometimes splenda and cinnamon (which masks the flavor of artificial stuff for me).

Depends on my macros that day.

Hope these help.

Otherwise, I'd also suggest make bars or muffins for the morning. Find recipes online. Add dried fruits and nuts to it. Yum. Almost like a breakfast cookie.

Ok, part one down. I mean literally-HOW do you cook it? 1 cup water to 1 cup oatmeal? Boil it? Spackle the wall with it? I'm the only one who eats it, so I only need 1 serving.

Thanks for the tips though...I've only ever eaten the microwave stuff, with roughly 16 tablespoons of brown sugar.

You have boxes of oatmeal and there are no directions on these boxes?

Add pumpkin purée and cinnamon or a little syrup and apples with cinnamon sugar.

Not sure if anyone said this, but I put it in my smoothies. It keeps me full until my next meal.

I make steel-cut oatmeal in the rice cooker - 2 c. oats to about 6-7 cups water. I let it cook about an hour while I'm walking the dog.

I usually eat it with a spoonful of either homemade jam (apricot is the best) or I canned some apple and blueberry pie filling this year that are good, too, plus a scoop of plain yogurt stirred in.

Sometimes I leave out the fruit and yogurt and have stirred in leftover vegetables and even something like chicken or smoked pork, too, for a more savory breakfast.

Pumpkin oatmeal is the best! It tastes like pumpkin pie.

This is my favorite recipe: http://wannabite.com/crockpot-pumpkin-oatmeal-recipe/

I use vanilla soy milk and 1/2 the recommended butter and it tastes amazing.

Well, damn, that'll be the next one I try.

Tried the refrigerator oats this morning. Puking makes you lose weight right? Seriously, so disgusting.

I've tried all variants of overnight oats and fridge oats and I'm with you. They're just mush and grit. Blehhh