The Best Oatmeal Ever

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Feed Your Heart And Soul

Oatmeal is one of those rare foods that's at home in both categories, Healthy & Affordable. For less then 15 cents a serving you can start out your day with a nutritious breakfast and have almost as much money as when you got up. Think about it, what other breakfast choice can say that?

And Oatmeal is not just for breakfast. You can mix it with other ingredients to make bread, cookies, salad, soap and beer to name a few of its versatile uses.

At least 5 days a week I have a serving of oatmeal mixed with 3/4 cups of wild blueberries, topped with a little skim milk. This wonderfully healthy and delicious Oatmeal and fruit breakfast costs less then 1.20 per serving, with the wild blueberries from Maine adding most of the cost.

Sunshine on My Oatmeal 

Oatmeal lends itself to whatever you imagination can come up with. You can add sugar, honey or molasses to give it a distinctive flavor. Some people eat it like rice with salt an pepper and a dab of butter.

As you can see from the picture I took below I like to go the fresh or frozen fruit route. I slice Strawberries or Bananas straight into the hot Oatmeal, topped off with a little skim milk and I'm good for hours. If I'm in the mood for something out of season I'll take a handful of frozen Blueberries or Raspberries and let them thaw a bit before I cook the Oatmeal.

The Top Five Reasons Oatmeal is The Best Ever 

  1. It's Unbelievably Affordable
  2. It's a Tremendous Cholesterol Fighter
  3. It Makes Tremendous Cookies
  4. It Makes Your Skin Glow
  5. Both Kids & Adults Love, Love, Love It

Spotlight on Cooking With Oats 

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Miss Your Oatmeal When Traveling?? 

watch oatmeal made in a coffee maker, no kidding!!!

Good Eats Moment - Mr Oatmeal

A Food Network minute with Alton Brown. Watch Alton Brown as he makes the perfect pot of oats.

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Cookies Cookies Cookies 

warm oatmeal cookies with raisins, how good is that.


1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1 egg
1/2 cup vegetable oil, preferably canola
1/2 cup unsweetened applesauce
1 teaspoon vanilla
3/4 cup whole-wheat flour
1/2 cup all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 cups Quaker oats (quick or old fashioned, uncooked)
1 cup "mix-ins" (dried cranberries, mixed dried fruit pieces, raisins, mini chocolate chips or chopped nuts)

1. Heat oven to 350ºF. In large bowl, beat brown sugar, egg, oil, applesauce and vanilla on medium speed of electric mixer until combined. Add combined flours, baking soda and salt; beat on low speed just until blended. Stir in oats and "mix-ins."
2. Drop dough by level measuring tablespoonfuls about 2 inches apart onto ungreased cookie sheets.
3. Bake 9 to 10 minutes, until light brown. (Do not overbake. Centers will appear soft.) Cool 1 to 2 minutes on cookie sheets; transfer to wire racks. Cool completely. Store tightly covered.

Spotlight on Oatmeal Cookies 

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Heart Healthy Oatmeal Cookies 

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Heart Healthy Oatmeal Cookies

Heart Healthy Oatmeal Cookies with canola oil. A Heart and Stroke Foundation cooking show in partnership with the Manitoba Canola Growers

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Oatmeal

Meatloaf With Oatmeal 

oatmeal makes for a dryer and nutty tasting meatloaf

Ingredients
1-1/2 pounds lean ground beef or turkey
3/4 cup rolled oats
3/4 cup finely chopped onion(try red onion)
1/2 cup catchup
1 egg, lightly beaten
1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce or soy sauce
2 cloves garlic, minced ( try extra garlic )
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon black pepper

Extra ingredients to try, chopped green peppers, chopped jalapeno peppers,crushed tomato instead of catchup, thawed frozen veggies. Be creative and you family will thank you.

mix all ingredients together and put in a loaf pan. Cook in a preheated oven at 350 degrees for around 55 minutes. Use meat thermometer to ensure correct level of done.

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Soap Soap Soap 

yes oatmeal soap, no ifs, ans or buts, this is the real deal.

Oatmeal & Bathing 

Beauty And Bathing (article from 1924)
Charm is more than a thing of the spirit; it is generated by a beautiful mind. All are agreed as to that ; but one can not imagine charm radiating from anybody who is not clean and wholesome. In other words, any girl or woman who wishes to develop charm, or grace, or beauty in her daily life, must begin with a healthy body. And in order to acquire that wholesome, normal body, she must learn and observe the three fundamentals of good health

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Oatmeal is ground oat groats (i.e. oat-Category: wikt - :meal#Etymology 2|meal, cf. cornmeal, peasemeal, etc.), or a porridge made from this product (also called oatmeal cereal or stirabout, in Ireland). Oatmeal can also be steel-cut oats, crushed oats, or rolled oats.

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    newbizmau newbizmau Sep 19, 2009 @ 12:23 am
    You gotta get your oats on! I'm not a fancy oat eater, just butter, sugar, and salt for me please. I have to admit though, the guy cooking oatmeal in a coffee maker has got it going on.
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    RolandTumble RolandTumble Jan 14, 2009 @ 4:10 pm
    I usually eat it with butter and brown sugar, but butter and maple syrup (real, please), is good too.... My partner uses butter and salt.
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    ngio64 ngio64 Nov 5, 2008 @ 9:20 am
    My family now enjoys steel cut oats. I mix a 1 to 4 ratio of oats and water in my pressure cooker before I go to bed. I heat just until the cooker reaches pressure then I remove from the heat and leave it sealed until the morning. It is cooked to perfection in the morning. I just heat on medium low to serving temperature.
    Sometimes I replace up to 1/4 the oats with another whole grain, wheat, rye, barley, etc. or add chopped apples, cinnamon and nutmeg for apple pie oatmeal!
    Great lens!
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    Margo_Arrowsmith Margo_Arrowsmith Sep 9, 2008 @ 4:24 pm
    Well, I have a recipe for oatmeal that is the best in the world. People make faces when I tell them, but when they taste it, it is a different story.

    I will share it with you. It is tasty and exceptionally healthy.

    Oatmeal Omelet

    Boil 2 cups of water. When it comes to a full boil add 1 cup of oatmeal, quickly follow with the whites of 2 or 3 eggs. Finish cooking following the recipe on the box. When it has set for a minute, put in bowl, add mild picante sauce to taste and a table spoon of flax seed oil. Stir well and eat.

    I see that face! But believe me, its delicious! Try it, you'll like it!

    I have to admit, however, I don't get the instant stuff. I'd rather go without!

    But great lens! Thanks for all the information.
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    Gandree Gandree Jun 18, 2008 @ 10:45 am
    Bet I have an oatmeal recipe you haven't tried before. Even kids who turn up their noses at a bowl of the good stuff will eat this and it's low fat! See my 'Momma Cooks' lens :0)
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