What are some good things to put on plain oatmeal?

[Focused]

besides honey?

????????

[SquareHead]

Protein powder, sugar substitute, raisins, and I think I remember reading some insane person on here uses hot sauce.

[Augury]

i often have choccie whey powder with my oats. and milk obviously. i eat them raw tho..not cooked.

also try:

1/4 cup raisins
teaspoon peanut butter (yummy with the choccie whey)
chopped slightly unripe banana
chopped apple
walnuts
vanilla flavouring
roasted almonds
1/4 cup chopped figs/dates

Obviously dont try them all at once. That would be horrific.

Augs

[pruneman]

cheese, tuna, and salsa!
It's amazing.

[Augury]

omg tunaman.

are you the same person who suggested hot sauce? still, even though you have suggested what sounds like a revolting thing...Im going to try it. once i understand it. Oats stay raw and uncooked right? isnt it a bit dry? please dont tell me you have this with milk? Im in the UK...so by salsa you mean that chopped up tomato gloop stuff you dip doritos in i guess - as opposed to the dancing style?

Augs

[Focused]

hmm think ill give vanila flavoring a try...so basically thats vanilla extract right?

[ace dogg]

I just put a tbs or so of cocoa on it.

[Augury]

yah...vanilla extract is the easy way and yummy.

the posh and slightly less easy way is to add a vanilla pod to the milk and let is soak for a bit. mmmm. but slow and messy compared to the extract method. dont eat the pod!

Augs

[Exnor]

I believe defon has hot sauce on his. I always eat mine plain. I have tried putting jam on the top once, and it tasted quite nice. However, Jam is very full of sugar and probably would not be advisable.

[supirman]

i like it with syrup -- tastes good to me. also, syrup on eggs is tastey.

[ectx]

I keep it simple...sometimes a few berries, always cinnamon and splenda.

[TheGimp]

Another vote for cinnamon here

[Vido]

How about you just suck it up and eat them plain? They don't even taste bad.

[Focused]

wait, doesnt cinammon contain alot of sugar? i always thought it was bad for you...

[ryuage]

cinnamon, protein powder, cocoa powder, fruits, splenda, hrmmmmmmmmmmmmmm?

[TheGimp]

wait, doesnt cinammon contain alot of sugar? i always thought it was bad for you...

It's certainly not a calorie dense food. A teaspoon or so of cinnamon is pretty insignificant.

Nutritional information for 100g of cinammon

Water g 9.52
Energy kcal 261
Energy kj 1093
Protein g 3.89
Total lipid (fat) g 3.19 56
Ash g 3.55
Carbohydrate, by difference g 79.85
Fiber, total dietary g 54.3
Sugars, total g 2.17
Sucrose g 0.02
Glucose (dextrose) g 1.04
Fructose g 1.11
Lactose g 0.00
Maltose g 0.00
Galactose g 0.00
Minerals
Calcium, Ca mg 1228
Iron, Fe mg 38.07
Magnesium, Mg mg 56
Phosphorus, P mg 61
Potassium, K mg 500
Sodium, Na mg 26
Zinc, Zn mg 1.97
Copper, Cu mg 0.233
Manganese, Mn mg 16.667
Selenium, Se mcg 1.1
Vitamins
Vitamin C, total ascorbic acid mg 28.5
Thiamin mg 0.077
Riboflavin mg 0.140
Niacin mg 1.300
Vitamin B-6 mg 0.310
Folate, total mcg 29
Folic acid mcg 0
Folate, food mcg 29
Folate, DFE mcg_DFE 29
Vitamin B-12 mcg 0.00
Vitamin A, IU IU 280
Vitamin A, RAE mcg_RAE 14
Retinol mcg 0
Vitamin E (alpha-tocopherol) mg 0.95
Tocopherol, beta mg 0.00
Tocopherol, gamma mg 0.66
Tocopherol, delta mg 0.00
Vitamin K (phylloquinone) mcg 31.2
Lipids
Fatty acids, total saturated g 0.650
4:0 g 0.000
6:0 g 0.000
8:0 g 0.000
10:0 g 0.000
12:0 g 0.030
14:0 g 0.090
16:0 g 0.390
18:0 g 0.140
Fatty acids, total monounsaturated g 0.480
16:1 undifferentiated g 0.030
18:1 undifferentiated g 0.450
20:1 g 0.000 0 0
22:1 undifferentiated g 0.000
Fatty acids, total polyunsaturated g 0.530
18:2 undifferentiated g 0.530
18:3 undifferentiated g 0.000
18:4 g 0.000
20:4 undifferentiated g 0.000
20:5 n-3 g 0.000
22:5 n-3 g 0.000
22:6 n-3 g 0.000
Cholesterol mg 0
Phytosterols mg 26
Other
Alcohol, ethyl g 0.0
Caffeine mg 0
Theobromine mg 0
Carotene, beta mcg 39
Carotene, alpha mcg 0
Cryptoxanthin, beta mcg 258
Lycopene mcg 29
Lutein + zeaxanthin mcg 420

[harryhoudini66]

Protein Powder
Splenda
Apple Sauce

[The_Chicken_Daddy]

Yeah, i eat mine plain and raw, but cooked with cinnamon is always nice.

I had a bag of christmas spices one time too, which was fantastic. Made it almost taste like i was eating christmas cake/christmas pudding. Almost.

Dunno where i got the stuff from though, so it didn't last long.

[John Williams]

There are a bunch of oats recipes in this article:

http://www.johnberardi.com/articles/...ry_of_oats.htm

[PiKappaWRX]

i leave my oatmeal plain and just drink some vodka and OJ w/ it to rid the taste. then i go and workout and consume my ideal PWO shake: cabo wabo tres generaciones, sauza sweet and sour, triple sec, and a splash of grand marnier. blend and you have yourself PWO margarita (add whey if desired).

[Saint Patrick]

^ WTF.

I eat mine plain, cooked in the microwave.

Lately I just put them in a blender with some fruit, milk and whey and make a smoothie.

[skyjumper]

My bowl of oatmeal has a little sugar, cinnamon, and lots of raisins.

[TheGimp]

i leave my oatmeal plain and just drink some vodka and OJ w/ it to rid the taste. then i go and workout and consume my ideal PWO shake: cabo wabo tres generaciones, sauza sweet and sour, triple sec, and a splash of grand marnier. blend and you have yourself PWO margarita (add whey if desired).

lol?

[Bboy486]

i am eatting really oatmeal as we speak, an dI gotta say plain, is really disgusting. Its like cardboard. I just switched over from the premade types.

Tomarrow I will be putting cinnamon and or honey into them, to give it taste. I dunno about you guys that can eat these plain but damn you must be desensitized from them!

[Bruise Brubaker]

It doesn't taste like cardboard, it has taste. Puting things like honey or cinnamon or whatever on everything is what make you lost the sensation of the natural taste of oatmeal. Of course it won't taste as much as potato chips...