Oatmeal HELP!!
mkh858
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Just need some ideas for my oatmeal. I do not like eating oatmeal. I know all the benefits so I need a way for it to taste better. So far I've tried; yogurt, peanut butter, bananas, all berries, agave, cinnamon, vanilla ice cream, raisins, milk, yogurt crumbs, molasses, a whole lot of nuts, sugar . Is there anything else I haven't thought of yet? I gag everytime I eat it even with things mixed in it. Tia
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so don't eat it!
in my opinion, there are no benefits great enough to warrant you gagging every time.
you can get plenty of benefits from other foods.
ps- what oatmeal benefits are you referring to??0 -
tomatosoup3 wrote: »so don't eat it!
in my opinion, there are no benefits great enough to warrant you gagging every time.
you can get plenty of benefits from other foods.
ps- what oatmeal benefits are you referring to??
Mainly fiber and potassium. A lot of my breastfeeding moms say oatmeal does wonders for mill supply.0 -
Try Weetabix with milk instead. Or make the oats into flapjacks. If you really don't like oatmeal then don't eat it. Life is too short!0
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May not be helpful or what you're looking for BUT, a friend of mine is breastfeeding & she makes lactation cookies to help her milk supply & one of the main ingredients is oatmeal! You can find a lot of recipes on Pinterest or Google it.0
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TiffanyMSS wrote: »May not be helpful or what you're looking for BUT, a friend of mine is breastfeeding & she makes lactation cookies to help her milk supply & one of the main ingredients is oatmeal! You can find a lot of recipes on Pinterest or Google it.
Yes, I make those all the time..just want something new! Thanks though0 -
There are other sources of potassium (bananas, avocados, potatoes, kiwi, etc.) and soluble fiber (barley, okra, eggplant, beans, lentils, apples with skins, etc.).
If you're dead set on eating oats, why not try them in some other form than oatmeal (I assume when you say oatmeal you mean cooked as porridge, and it sounds like you just don't like the consistency): baked goods made with oat flour (oat flour is just oats ground fine, instead of rolled or steel-cut as you use them for oatmeal); Cheerios; oatmeal cookies; muesli (cold, uncooked oats mixed with nuts and dried fruit, usually moistened with milk or yogurt); homemade protein bars (protein powder, oats, usually peanut butter but sometime molasses or a combination to hold the mix together, other add-ins like nuts, dried fruit, and chocolate chips if you like -- google recipes).
ETA: Just remembered a chicken soup I used to make, that had diced dried apricots and oats in it. The oats gave the soup a creamy texture without adding the calories from actual cream.
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Oatmeal is one food that I could not get on board with. At all. I haven't eaten a bowl of oatmeal in 30 years (and I hardly ever had it as a kid). Anytime I did try it, I would end up gagging and tossing it. Totally disgusting! But...I've always wanted to like it! Then two weeks ago while I was shopping, I came across an oatmeal (made by Nature's Path) that is mixed with chia, hemp, buckwheat and coconut. Figured I would give it a try and while that first bowl didn't go down that easily, I stuck with it because I thought it was tasty enough. For me, I think the chia seeds and coconut change the texture in a good way. It's now my go-to breakfast and I love it because it's low-cal, low sugar (I add a bit of brown sugar lol), and gluten-free (if you care about that sort of thing).0
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lynn_glenmont wrote: »There are other sources of potassium (bananas, avocados, potatoes, kiwi, etc.) and soluble fiber (barley, okra, eggplant, beans, lentils, apples with skins, etc.).
If you're dead set on eating oats, why not try them in some other form than oatmeal (I assume when you say oatmeal you mean cooked as porridge, and it sounds like you just don't like the consistency): baked goods made with oat flour (oat flour is just oats ground fine, instead of rolled or steel-cut as you use them for oatmeal); Cheerios; oatmeal cookies; muesli (cold, uncooked oats mixed with nuts and dried fruit, usually moistened with milk or yogurt); homemade protein bars (protein powder, oats, usually peanut butter but sometime molasses or a combination to hold the mix together, other add-ins like nuts, dried fruit, and chocolate chips if you like -- google recipes).
ETA: Just remembered a chicken soup I used to make, that had diced dried apricots and oats in it. The oats gave the soup a creamy texture without adding the calories from actual cream.
Oh good thanks. My husband makes oatmeal for our whole family for breakfast and I just dnot like it. I've Googled a lot of recipes but was hoping someone had a new way of eating them.0 -
If you want potassium and fiber eat beans, spinach, leafy greens, potatoes, and avocados.
The only kind of oatmeal is steel cut oatmeal that I make in the crock pot over night.0 -
Oatmeal is one food that I could not get on board with. At all. I haven't eaten a bowl of oatmeal in 30 years (and I hardly ever had it as a kid). Anytime I did try it, I would end up gagging and tossing it. Totally disgusting! But...I've always wanted to like it! Then two weeks ago while I was shopping, I came across an oatmeal (made by Nature's Path) that is mixed with chia, hemp, buckwheat and coconut. Figured I would give it a try and while that first bowl didn't go down that easily, I stuck with it because I thought it was tasty enough. For me, I think the chia seeds and coconut change the texture in a good way. It's now my go-to breakfast and I love it because it's low-cal, low sugar (I add a bit of brown sugar lol), and gluten-free (if you care about that sort of thing).
Oh I will try looking for that..never thought it was the texture.0 -
lynn_glenmont wrote: »There are other sources of potassium (bananas, avocados, potatoes, kiwi, etc.) and soluble fiber (barley, okra, eggplant, beans, lentils, apples with skins, etc.).
If you're dead set on eating oats, why not try them in some other form than oatmeal (I assume when you say oatmeal you mean cooked as porridge, and it sounds like you just don't like the consistency): baked goods made with oat flour (oat flour is just oats ground fine, instead of rolled or steel-cut as you use them for oatmeal); Cheerios; oatmeal cookies; muesli (cold, uncooked oats mixed with nuts and dried fruit, usually moistened with milk or yogurt); homemade protein bars (protein powder, oats, usually peanut butter but sometime molasses or a combination to hold the mix together, other add-ins like nuts, dried fruit, and chocolate chips if you like -- google recipes).
ETA: Just remembered a chicken soup I used to make, that had diced dried apricots and oats in it. The oats gave the soup a creamy texture without adding the calories from actual cream.
Oh good thanks. My husband makes oatmeal for our whole family for breakfast and I just dnot like it. I've Googled a lot of recipes but was hoping someone had a new way of eating them.
If you've tried them with all the different toppings you mention in the OP, I'm pretty sure it's the texture that's a problem for you, not the taste. About the only thing you could try to do to cooked oatmeal (porridge) to change the texture in the time frame of the same meal might be to try forming them into pancakes (maybe add an egg) and recooking them on a griddle or in a skillet. You'd have to start with very thick oatmeal. You might want to add flour (oat flour if you want to maximize your oat consumption). But it seems like a lot to go through for what would probably not turn out nearly as well as just starting with dry oats and oat flour and milk and an egg to make pancakes in more or less the normal fashion.
If you really think it's the flavor of oatmeal (porridge) and not the texture that's causing you to gag, you might try treating it as a savory grain and stirring in shaved or shredded parmesan (while it's very hot, so it will melt in like risotto), and/or topping it with a poached egg.
That's all I've got, I think.0 -
lynn_glenmont wrote: »lynn_glenmont wrote: »There are other sources of potassium (bananas, avocados, potatoes, kiwi, etc.) and soluble fiber (barley, okra, eggplant, beans, lentils, apples with skins, etc.).
If you're dead set on eating oats, why not try them in some other form than oatmeal (I assume when you say oatmeal you mean cooked as porridge, and it sounds like you just don't like the consistency): baked goods made with oat flour (oat flour is just oats ground fine, instead of rolled or steel-cut as you use them for oatmeal); Cheerios; oatmeal cookies; muesli (cold, uncooked oats mixed with nuts and dried fruit, usually moistened with milk or yogurt); homemade protein bars (protein powder, oats, usually peanut butter but sometime molasses or a combination to hold the mix together, other add-ins like nuts, dried fruit, and chocolate chips if you like -- google recipes).
ETA: Just remembered a chicken soup I used to make, that had diced dried apricots and oats in it. The oats gave the soup a creamy texture without adding the calories from actual cream.
Oh good thanks. My husband makes oatmeal for our whole family for breakfast and I just dnot like it. I've Googled a lot of recipes but was hoping someone had a new way of eating them.
If you've tried them with all the different toppings you mention in the OP, I'm pretty sure it's the texture that's a problem for you, not the taste. About the only thing you could try to do to cooked oatmeal (porridge) to change the texture in the time frame of the same meal might be to try forming them into pancakes (maybe add an egg) and recooking them on a griddle or in a skillet. You'd have to start with very thick oatmeal. You might want to add flour (oat flour if you want to maximize your oat consumption). But it seems like a lot to go through for what would probably not turn out nearly as well as just starting with dry oats and oat flour and milk and an egg to make pancakes in more or less the normal fashion.
If you really think it's the flavor of oatmeal (porridge) and not the texture that's causing you to gag, you might try treating it as a savory grain and stirring in shaved or shredded parmesan (while it's very hot, so it will melt in like risotto), and/or topping it with a poached egg.
That's all I've got, I think.
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I live in australia, so dont always want a hot breakfast, so i started making overnight oats.
half a cup of oats, tablespoon chia seeds, cup of almond milk, tablespoon maple syrup, chopped pecans, diced apple. chuck it all in a jar and leave it in the fridge overnight. No cooking required, its cold and yummy. you can mix up the sweeteners, fruit, seeds, nuts whatever you fancy
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If you really wanna eat it but can't stand the taste try putting it in a smoothie. For example banana, berries, milk and some oats. You won't taste oats at all.0
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If you do not like oatmeal, stop eating it. It has fiber, as a ton of other foods. You can easily get the same benefits from foods you like better. As for oatmeal helping when breastfeeding, there is no evidence it does: http://kellymom.com/bf/got-milk/supply-worries/oatmeal/
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Why eat oatmeal if you don't like oatmeal? Seems weird to me.0
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As for me...
I have an aversion to what would seem to be "classic" oatmeal -- I find it to be gloopy, gloppy, and gross (and gagnonimously (!) "gruel"-like)... regular oatmeal reminds me of a sludge-like paper pulp that got left out in the rain (yum!
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I am also not a fan of steel-cut oats (for a few reasons).
However, there are other "forms" of oatmeal, and I flippin' LOVE whole grain oats that have been milled extra thick (which translates to more *taste*), and double toasted (which results in the oats having a rougher texture), so that they do NOT end up turning mushy, when cooked, and instead, retain the kind of chewy texture, and flavorful, nutty taste, that has rendered such glorious oatmealness the only "form" of oatmeal that I'll eat... I love it (and I love it so much that I eat a bowl of it nearly every day (it's only when I travel that I don't eat it every day), and I've come to rely on it for pre-fueling certain workouts, as well).
But if it turns out that you don't like oatmeal in any form, but still want to find a way to palatably ingest it, then I would try what various others have suggested -- i.e. incorporating the oats into something that isn't "oatmeal" (I happen to be repurposing some gag-worthy fiber cereal into muffins, myself, as it turns out).0 -
If you dont like oatmeal, you can get all these nutrients elsewhere! As far as the milk supply, I know some moms swear by it, but as a fellow breastfeeding mom I have never noticed a difference for me when I eat it. If you really want to get those oats for your supply though, try baking them into lactation cookies. Of course you have to watch your portions due to the sugar, but probably more palatable.
I just personally found what I ate didnt make a differance for milk supply as much as frequent feedings did. If your baby is gaining weight and peeing enough, you dont have a supply problem and you dont have to force feed yourself foods you hate!0 -
JackieMarie1989jgw wrote: »If you dont like oatmeal, you can get all these nutrients elsewhere! As far as the milk supply, I know some moms swear by it, but as a fellow breastfeeding mom I have never noticed a difference for me when I eat it. If you really want to get those oats for your supply though, try baking them into lactation cookies. Of course you have to watch your portions due to the sugar, but probably more palatable.
I just personally found what I ate didnt make a differance for milk supply as much as frequent feedings did. If your baby is gaining weight and peeing enough, you dont have a supply problem and you dont have to force feed yourself foods you hate!
^This.
After nursing for a total of 5 years (not one kid), the only thing (other than feeding more often) I have found to actually affect milk supply was beer. Non alcoholic beer is as good (or actually even better) than regular beer.0 -
My husband likes steel cut oats with butter. I don't eat a lot of oatmeal, but it's actually pretty good that way.0
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I love oatmeal and I love trying out new recipes. Pinterest is where I find all mine and I really enjoy the chocolate oatmeal. Who doesn't like healthy form of chocolate?? 0
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What do you make it with? I use vanilla almond milk, dried cranberries, and cinnamon.0
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Adding light brown sugar is definitely the way to go!
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JackieMarie1989jgw wrote: »If you dont like oatmeal, you can get all these nutrients elsewhere! As far as the milk supply, I know some moms swear by it, but as a fellow breastfeeding mom I have never noticed a difference for me when I eat it. If you really want to get those oats for your supply though, try baking them into lactation cookies. Of course you have to watch your portions due to the sugar, but probably more palatable.
I just personally found what I ate didnt make a differance for milk supply as much as frequent feedings did. If your baby is gaining weight and peeing enough, you dont have a supply problem and you dont have to force feed yourself foods you hate!
^This.
After nursing for a total of 5 years (not one kid), the only thing (other than feeding more often) I have found to actually affect milk supply was beer. Non alcoholic beer is as good (or actually even better) than regular beer.
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Eat Cheerios.0
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Here we go: Solution for you!!!! I gave birth to my son in the Dominican Republic and this is what they make for mothers to breasfeed: In your blender, oatmeal, vanilla (extract or sugar), lime juice (or lemon) water and blend! Poor the mix through a strainer (sieve) et voilá, perfect juice, fills you up and the texture is totally different which might be the clue! And if not, than relax and dont punish yourself, enjoy motherhood instead of fuzzing over not eating something. Its not a matter of life and death!
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I make oatmeal in my small rice cooker on weekends. I add dried cranberries, real butter and cinnamon plus a touch of honey. On a cold morning it tastes great. I also want to try adding some PB2 dried peanut butter to jazz it up.0
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