OldTryGuy

Cocoa is still a processed product. Using 100% Organic Free Trade Cacao Nibs is MUCH HEALTHIER albeit more expensive. My source for the nibs is Vitacost. I also obtain my organic cinnamon and many other products from them.

NOTE......100% Cacao Nibs has more iron than red meat; however, vitamin C must be taken for the body to assimilate the iron since the iron is a plant based source.

wheelsmcgee

This! Instant oatmeal with chocolate chips (and a little sugar) was like my "ramen" version of breakfast back in college.

Dave Cutter

I am an old guy.... and microwave anything wasn't around when I was young. I still prefer the old fashion or steel cut oats. The wife makes them and she likes/adds raisins and brown sugar.

Todays breakfast.... a hard boiled egg and a banana.

Maelochs

I had a bowl of oatmeal with almonds ... without the oatmeal ... and two cups of coffee. Not sure if the coffee was steel-cut, or maybe plasma-cut, or whatever ... but it was really good. Now I am coasting.

Moe Zhoost

Sound interesting and certainly worth a try. Your use of "processed" is a bit odd to me. I reckon you could say that cocoa is processed: Beans are roasted, pressed to remove fat, and then ground. But you could also say that cacao nibs are similarly processed: beans are roasted, then chopped. And how about the oatmeal: roasted and either rolled or chopped. Couldn't one say that most foods have some level of processing?

OldTryGuy

https://iquitsugar.com/raw-cacao-vs-...he-difference/ THE DIFFERENCE

Gerryattrick

Cinnamon and mixed dried fruit when cooking. Honey, blueberries, blackberries and strawberries (basically almost any berries) stirred in after cooking. Never nuts or seeds.

Full English fried breakfast, including black pudding, on a Sunday, if there's no bike ride straight after.

Put turmeric in instead of cinnamon once by mistake - not nice!

wolfchild

I soak steel cut oats overnight, soaking speeds up cooking...After cooking I let them cool of and add 1 scoop of whey protein powder and 3 tablespoons of Tahini, sometimes I add regular dairy butter instead of Tahini...I don't eat them for breakfast but take them to work and eat them as my mid-morning meal...Never ever put sugar into your oatmeal because you're just spoiling and corrupting a perfectly healthy food...Add some protein and a little bit of fats instead of sugars.

KingCat

I put a dab of EPO on my oatmeal

Maelochs

This is not the Religion/Politics forum.

Trsnrtr

Pecans - handful.

Darth Lefty 

I've been making mine in a rice cooker. Craisins with honey, or fruit cocktail, accounting for the liquid in the can; or sometimes no fruit and peanut butter instead. Have done rolled, steel cut, or pearl barley. Have also tried the family fried mush recipe! Also pecans sometimes. Weirdly the craisins, honey and pecans is also what I put in yogurt.

TGT1

Walnuts and Raisins

Cheap instant oats,

Put regular rolled oats in a blender and pulse for 30 seconds.

Same thing

Darth Lefty 

It's the basis of a lot of your favorite things... Sweet and sour, sweet and bitter. Beer, wine, cheese, ketchup

fastk9dad

Steel cut is my favorite & maple syrup is a must. After that some cinnamon or pumpkin spice, maybe some granola or fresh berries.

Jim from Boston

What do you put into your oatmeal?

Just this morning I heard a commercial for Quaker Oats that they are offering a $250,000 prize for the best new oatmeal flavor. See this website: Bring Your Best Bowl.com

I think we have a wiener.

ironwood

Haggis.

Maelochs

Wouldn't it be easier to put the oatmeal into the haggis?

ironwood

That's how they make it, they put oatmeal, onions and chopped up things from the sheep into a sheeps stomach.

John33702

Ready Brek ain't bad!

texaspandj

First and foremost you have to use the right oats. And that would be a brand called crystal wedding oats. Next while cooking add condensed milk. Finally add sugar to taste. If you're on the go you can add more water while cooking and when it's done put it in a cup and drink it .Delicious.
Crystal Wedding Oats is a smaller oat than quaker oats also not as course.

chephy

Cod liver.

imi

juist feed yer wee sheep wi parritch

... than toon it inside oot!

ironwood

On the one hand, this seems to be a frivolous off topic thread, but on the other hand oatmeal really is one of the best foods for any endurance activity such as cycling, x-country skiing, snowshoeing, hiking etc. In my opinion, at least, based on purely subjective, unscientific observation.

On some forums I see questions such as how can I go faster, further, expecting that some computer program, or special energy bar is the solution when all they have to do is eat oatmeal for breakfast.

digibud

Blueberries (wild ones we pick in the summer and freeze), chopped walnuts, brown sugar and almond milk.