How can I add oatmeal to my diet when I hate it?

I like to make flavored oatmeal and then put frozen yogurt on top of it... It is like eating a cobbler with ice cream on top :-) Good luck with your oatmeal issues...

I make a oatmeal mocha thing that has really helped me like it.

1/2 cup oatmeal (1 serving) 150 calories
1 tablespoon peanut butter 95 calories
Dymatize Elite - Whey Protein Isolate Cafe Mocha, 1 scoop 117 calories

Total=362 calories, 34 carbs, 13 fat, 34 protein, 5 fiber, 3 sugar

If I can't finish it I put little balls of it on wax paper and then I have little no bake cookies later that I have already accounted for.
Hope that helps.

Interesting blend bro. Used to blend 1 serving oats, peanut butter, banana and casein as my last meal before I hit the sack.

I hate cooked oarmeal, so I have used my coffee grinder to grind it into a powder and I add it to fruit flovored yogurt. Also I grind oatmeal into a powder and store it in a large container, so powder is ready for use. I use my blender to add 1-2 scoops into milk to make thick milk shake, for flavor I use the variety of "add to water flavor mixers, like Wyler's cherry/raspberry,hawiian punch, maybe equal and few cubes of ice. Also great substiture from having to buy store brought protein shakes. If you want, you can try blending with real fruit juice instead of milk, adding your yogurt into blender, using vanilla flavoring, real banana or a spoon full of sugar free chocolate/vanilla or banana pudding to thicken....the possibilities are endless.

Another thought is to make your own granola, use sugar free jelly as binding ingredient, stay away from dried fruits, just add variety of nuts, chopped small. I don't use honey,I blend the oats, sunflower seeds, cashews, almonds, a little dried coconut and stir in a tablespoon or so of sugar free jelly. bake in oven 7-10 minutes, the jelly will bind nuts and oats, dont burn it. and practice portion control....and you good to go. variety can declde a few flax seeds, carob when you take out of oven while still warm. These are ways I get oatmeal down.

Also you can bake oatmeal brownies, add oatmeal to bakers non sweetened chocolate, I use equal for sweetner, and melt down some 1 tablespoon per cup,butter, add an egg and some enough milk, to moisten or use unsweetened cocoa for chocolate if you dont have melted chocolate bars. Sweeten to taste, use sugar free sweetners bake in non stick pan few minutes. You can also try variation by adding nuts, real apple, vanilla flavor and cinnamon....World of possibilities according to your taste, your creativity and your diet...portion control recommended, nuts make it so good.

On the one hand, I agree with people who suggest that you not eat something you do not like. On the other hand, I don't like plain oatmeal, but with an apple, cinnamon, banana, and peanut butter added to it, I think it is pretty good.

I've attempted to eat those instant oatmeal packets over the years...so darn convenient, but blech...it's like school paste (imo). I heard people raving about steel cut oats and wanted to try them. They ARE a pita to make, so I kind of gave up. Jamba Juice sells a great steel cut oatmeal.....I fell in love and googled a recipe to make it at home. (hello huge money saver!!!) The recipe uses a rice cooker....no more babysitting a pan on the stove.

I don't follow the recipe exactly. For half the liquid, I use unsweetened almond milk. I also use no sweetener when making it (but put some raw sugar on top of my serving). It is delish

http://www.thesaladgirl.com/2009/09/30/recipe-rice-cooker-oatmeal/

Add cinnamon!!!! Do you like cinnamon? Cinnamon is good for you too. Try it out.. I get the oatmeal where I just add water and then I put cinnamon in it and it's a different meal and I can more than tolerate it.

grinding it to a powder and adding it to yogurt..... I like that!

Have you ever tried Steel Cut oatmeal? It's a different texture and taste than instant or reg oatmeal.
I put a little brown sugar and unsweetened almond milk in it. Way better than the other stuff.

in a smoothie! I make mine with spinach, bananas, greek yogurt, rolled oats and peanut butter! GreenSmoothiegirl.com

anzac buiscuits... not sure how you make them low sugar... also you can bake sliced apple topped with oatmeal - ie oats - add a little bit of artificialt sugar or the real thing - think apple crumble

'also' doh!

Hey I have an idea!!

Don't eat it!

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I don't mind the texture of oats, although I do eat old-fashioned, which don't totally mush up like instant or even quick. This might be something you'd enjoy. The texture is creamy and dense to me rather than mushy/snotty. I eat this amount for a healthy snack, or double it for a bowl of breakfast cereal:

1/4 c. old fashioned oats
1/3 c. water
1 1/2 tsp. creamy peanut butter
3/4 tsp. cocoa powder
1 packet Splenda

Put oats and water in a cereal bowl and microwave for about a minute. Stir in the peanut butter until totally combined, then add the cocoa powder and Splenda and mix again. To me, this tastes like a chocolate no-bake cookie before it's set up!

Check out the Chocolate Covered Katie blog. She has some amazing oatmeal recipes.



This isn't from her site but its on my "to make" list:

Banana Oatmeal Cookies


2 bananas
1 apple-peeled
2 cups old fashioned oats
1/2 tsp vanilla
1 tsp cinnamon
sweetener to taste


Blend banana and apple together in a blender. Pour into a bowl with oatmeal and remaining ingredients. Mix well.

Bake 375, about 1 Tablespoon per cookie for about 15 min.

Makes about 36 cookies, roughly 25 calories per cookie