Oatmeal

I eat it with ground flax and some pumpkin and I love it.

Unless food contribute to internal health in an adverse way (and I'm not talking about weight, but rather if it contributes to disease or otherwise poor health), then I don't think you could consider it bad, as at the very least even if it's not a particularly great source of nutrients, worst case scenario you're still getting the calories for energy from it.

How different foods affect your adherence to your calorie intake is another thing, but that doesn't make the food a defacto bad food, it just means that food may be a good or bad *food choice* for you, ie if eating food x causes you to over or under eat for whatever reason, then that food may not be a good food choice for you if that does not contribute towards your goals.

Enjoy the oatmeal if it doesn't hinder your goals

atypicalsmith wrote: »

Make a big pot of it adding your favorite fruit (I like blueberries and bananas with a bit of cinnamon and brown sugar), put it in a square or rectangle casserole dish, refrigerate overnight, cut into squares, freeze each square on a cookie sheet sprayed with oil, wrap them individually, and put them in a freezer bag. When you heat it up, takes like it was just made.

This is a good idea! I will have to try this.

Only strange people don't love oatmeal.

mamapeach910 wrote: »

galgenstrick wrote: »

Just make sure it's rolled oats or steel cut, and not that quick cook stuff

The quick cook stuff is just rolled oats run through a chopping blade a few times. Nothing wrong with it.

It's actually pre cooked, then dehydrated again and a lot of the time sweeteners or preservatives are added as a result. So it's more processed. But I was more referring to those packets with huge amounts of sugar in them.

I love oatmeal for lunch at work. I measure up about 35-40g of oats before I leave home, bring with me. I add hot water, sugar (comes in ready packets of 6g), cinnamon, chop up an apple, pear or other fruit if I have it, maybe eat it with some almonds. It is tasty, and it fills me up.

Rolled oats are oat groats that have been steamed and flattened with a roller. Instant oats are steel cut oats that have gone through a longer steaming and flattening process than the rolled oats.

That means cooked, then dried out. Whether or not that affects how the body uses them I don't know.

Great thread! I also love my oatmeal, though I didn't always. My routine consists of Quaker Reduced Sugar instant oatmeal during the week. Its a quick breakfast, and fills me up until lunch when I have some fruit with it, or maybe a mid-AM banana. Each packet is 120 calories. Then on the weekends, I LOVE to take the time to make steel cut oats. I like mine with cinnamon, and about 20g of raw honey. Side of fresh blueberries....YUM!! Nice way to start off a Sat or Sun.

I effin love oatmeal.