What do you put in your oatmeal?
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Pb2 ground flax garbanzo beans blueberries0
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I'm a ovo-lacto vegetarian, so I'm always looking for more ways to sneak protein into my oatmeal - I eat overnight oats almost every morning. Most days I do 0.5cup frozen berries, 1.5 tbsp chia seeds, 1/4-1/2 cup some kind of yogurt (Greek if it's on sale) and 0.5tbsp maple syrup. I can't stomach oatmeal without sweetener yet.
Other days I'll do PB powder, 1/4 or 1/8 cup walnuts or pecans, and cinnamon.
Lately I've been adding hemp seed protein powder to it as well - I bought it on a whim and in oatmeal is the only way I can stomach it. It adds extra fiber/protein, but kind of tastes like hay unless you disguise it.
Today I made hot oatmeal as I got up a little early and did 1 tbsp peanut butter and my usual berry blend. It was PBJ gooey, hot goodness. 10/10 would recommend.1 -
I put berries and nuts with cream or milk on top. Sometimes peanut butter and jam.0
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Walnuts, bananas, and blueberries, usually.
Sometimes other berries, chia, flax seeds.0 -
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IHateMyThyroid wrote: »
It doesn't. You boil water and then simmer for 10-20 mins.
However, the BEST way to cook steel cuts if you have a rice cooker is in the rice cooker. I love to get it started (takes 2 minutes), go out for a run, and come home to steel cut oats ready to eat.0 -
Fruit: banana, apple, berries
Chia seeds
Greek yogurt
Cottage cheese
Almonds/almond butter
Stevia/Jordan’s skinny syrups0 -
Maybe steel cut oats cooking times vary by brand. Mine (Flahavan's or Bob's Red Mill) generally take around 40 minutes to get how I like them. Lemurcat's rice cooker method sounds like a good bet.0
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spinnerdell wrote: »Maybe steel cut oats cooking times vary by brand. Mine (Flahavan's or Bob's Red Mill) generally take around 40 minutes to get how I like them. Lemurcat's rice cooker method sounds like a good bet.
I do mine in an instant pot, same theory as the rice cooker. Takes just as long but you don't have to babysit them, unlike doing them on a stove. In my experience they take 45 minutes on a stovetop and 25 minutes (wild rice setting) with the instant pot, plus you need to let it gradually depressurize which takes another ten.
I've heard that doing them in milk, which I do, takes longer, so maybe it's less time with water.
In any case I do four or five days ahead, and it keeps in the fridge and can be nuked if you like it hot, so it takes about two minutes to make in the morning.0 -
spinnerdell wrote: »Maybe steel cut oats cooking times vary by brand. Mine (Flahavan's or Bob's Red Mill) generally take around 40 minutes to get how I like them. Lemurcat's rice cooker method sounds like a good bet.
My steel cuts are most commonly Bob's Red Mill, and I go by the info on the package (which is what I said, 10-20 min simmering).
That said, I rarely cook on the stove, only when staying with family.0 -
Unsweetened applesauce, cinnamon and flaxmeal, all added after cooking. Sometimes I'll have it with flaxmeal, really ripe banana and Splenda brown sugar blend. Oh, and I cook it with half milk/half water.0
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I turn my boiled oatmeal into smoothies. I call one recipe Banana Bread Smoothie. Banana, oatmeal, cinnamon, a tiny bit of sugar, nonflavored yogurt, milk.1
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I'm a ovo-lacto vegetarian, so I'm always looking for more ways to sneak protein into my oatmeal - I eat overnight oats almost every morning. Most days I do 0.5cup frozen berries, 1.5 tbsp chia seeds, 1/4-1/2 cup some kind of yogurt (Greek if it's on sale) and 0.5tbsp maple syrup. I can't stomach oatmeal without sweetener yet.
Other days I'll do PB powder, 1/4 or 1/8 cup walnuts or pecans, and cinnamon.
Lately I've been adding hemp seed protein powder to it as well - I bought it on a whim and in oatmeal is the only way I can stomach it. It adds extra fiber/protein, but kind of tastes like hay unless you disguise it.
Today I made hot oatmeal as I got up a little early and did 1 tbsp peanut butter and my usual berry blend. It was PBJ gooey, hot goodness. 10/10 would recommend.
@lustymads, if you like the flavor generally, try blackstrap molasses as a sweetener (different brands have very different flavors). I like my oatmeal a bit sweeter, too, and the molasses has a meaningful amount of micronutrients (iron & potassium, chiefly), giving it that vague aura of healthful virtue as well as the hedonically-desired sweetness.
Before the blackstrap molasses, I used a tasty brand of all-fruit spread, which was also nice. 2 -
I'm a ovo-lacto vegetarian, so I'm always looking for more ways to sneak protein into my oatmeal - I eat overnight oats almost every morning. Most days I do 0.5cup frozen berries, 1.5 tbsp chia seeds, 1/4-1/2 cup some kind of yogurt (Greek if it's on sale) and 0.5tbsp maple syrup. I can't stomach oatmeal without sweetener yet.
Other days I'll do PB powder, 1/4 or 1/8 cup walnuts or pecans, and cinnamon.
Lately I've been adding hemp seed protein powder to it as well - I bought it on a whim and in oatmeal is the only way I can stomach it. It adds extra fiber/protein, but kind of tastes like hay unless you disguise it.
Today I made hot oatmeal as I got up a little early and did 1 tbsp peanut butter and my usual berry blend. It was PBJ gooey, hot goodness. 10/10 would recommend.
@lustymads, if you like the flavor generally, try blackstrap molasses as a sweetener (different brands have very different flavors). I like my oatmeal a bit sweeter, too, and the molasses has a meaningful amount of micronutrients (iron & potassium, chiefly), giving it that vague aura of healthful virtue as well as the hedonically-desired sweetness. Before the blackstrap molasses, I used a tasty brand of all-fruit spread, which was also nice.
Yes...it's a yummy thing 1 tbsp is around 60 calories though...0 -
I'm a ovo-lacto vegetarian, so I'm always looking for more ways to sneak protein into my oatmeal - I eat overnight oats almost every morning. Most days I do 0.5cup frozen berries, 1.5 tbsp chia seeds, 1/4-1/2 cup some kind of yogurt (Greek if it's on sale) and 0.5tbsp maple syrup. I can't stomach oatmeal without sweetener yet.
Other days I'll do PB powder, 1/4 or 1/8 cup walnuts or pecans, and cinnamon.
Lately I've been adding hemp seed protein powder to it as well - I bought it on a whim and in oatmeal is the only way I can stomach it. It adds extra fiber/protein, but kind of tastes like hay unless you disguise it.
Today I made hot oatmeal as I got up a little early and did 1 tbsp peanut butter and my usual berry blend. It was PBJ gooey, hot goodness. 10/10 would recommend.
@lustymads, if you like the flavor generally, try blackstrap molasses as a sweetener (different brands have very different flavors). I like my oatmeal a bit sweeter, too, and the molasses has a meaningful amount of micronutrients (iron & potassium, chiefly), giving it that vague aura of healthful virtue as well as the hedonically-desired sweetness. Before the blackstrap molasses, I used a tasty brand of all-fruit spread, which was also nice.
Yes...it's a yummy thing 1 tbsp is around 60 calories though...
True! But 26 calories for the aforementioned 1/2T of maple syrup, and if 1/2T of blackstrap molasses will do, the micros are better for around 30 calories (personally, I love the flavor, too). I'd go more calories for more than 1/2T for the potassium particularly, but that's just me and my overall balance. Just a thought.1
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