{"id":69,"date":"2007-01-04T16:09:10","date_gmt":"2007-01-04T22:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.omnux.com\/index.php\/2007\/01\/04\/morning-oatmeal-recipe\/"},"modified":"2012-10-22T12:43:21","modified_gmt":"2012-10-22T17:43:21","slug":"morning-oatmeal-recipe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.omnux.com\/index.php\/2007\/01\/04\/morning-oatmeal-recipe\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Oatmeal Recipe"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I was growing up, lo those many years ago, we went through a year or two where we had malt-o-meal cream of wheat (or something like that) every single morning. I kinda got burnt out on the whole hot cereal thing.<\/p>\n

This past summer, when I went into the Grand Canyon<\/a> for a week, one of the things that we ate of a morning were packets of Quaker Oat Oatmeal.<\/p>\n

The packets were very convenient. Dump in the packet, add boiling water, stir, and eat. I fell in love with them.<\/p>\n

When I got back to Illinois, I promptly went to the store and bought a few boxes myself. They have Apple Cinnamon<\/a>\"\", Fruit and Cream<\/a>\"\", etc. etc. There is a low-sugar version that I started getting, and it tastes really good. Particularly with milk instead of water.<\/p>\n

As I continued eating the packaged oatmeal, I figured that there had to be a way to “roll my own” and save some cash and get rid of the rest of the sugar.
\nA box of 10 packets of the Quaker stuff is 4-5 dollars or so. I generally ate 2 packets per meal, so it was costing me about a buck plus the cost of the milk.
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I bought a canister of quick oats and went to work in my kitchen. And, because I’m a nice guy, I’m going to share my recipe with you. (It’s not that hard to figure out, so it’s not like I’m being particularly benevolent) Tweak it as needed, and I’ll give some ideas at the end for what I do to give it some flair.<\/p>\n

I put the following into a cereal bowl:<\/p>\n