Chinese person here, the spices that work well on rice also work on congee, which is already similar to oatmeal, and IMO they work just fine on actual oatmeal too.
Hell we even have a "lazy congee" where you literally just add leftover rice to hot water to make a sort of rice oatmeal. Super convenient in the morning when you're in a rush!
There is a place for people like you but it's not the salty spittoon. You will get to see lots of sponge though and a jacket with lots of cool buckles.
you don't even need yeast, in sweden we have "stick bread" which is just flour, water, baking powder, and salt which you wrap around a stick and grill over a campfire. Perfectly tasty.
Yeah I think like 80% of foods have some combination of salt, pepper, and garlic. I feel like those three things alone are the most valuable flavorings possible, with many things coming in a close second
Anyone making the assertion that ingredients must taste good on their own to be considered tasty is free to go try vanilla extract to compare it to vanilla icecream.
Why do people insist on randomly hating what other people eat? The textbook definition of differing tastes between different people than cannot be accounted for? Unless your kid is named Oatmeal and they ate them, maybe mind your own business.
Dude, you enjoy plain oat meal. I ain't getting in a fight with someone like that. That's like picking a fight with Popeye because he eats plain spinach.
And I like whole oat groats even better. Discrete grains not unlike cooking rice. Groats and steel cut oats are such an improvement on texture. Guess there's a little trade-off in cooking time, but it really doesn't take that long. I'll make a little pot and have it for a week.
It's fine by itself. I mean, it ain't winning any awards for taste, because it's not good but it's not awful either. It just exists. 🤷🏻♂️
I just put a handful of blueberries or cut up strawberries in mine for some stimulation. The main reason for me to have oatmeal is that it is super quick and extremely filling with just a small portion. Efficiency food.
The defense of Oatmeal is that it's insanely good for your health and will help you lose weight if you can shovel unsweetened oatmeal down your pie hole every morning.
Doesn't have to be unsweetened, just unsweetened with natural sugars like, sugar or honey. Stevia or other artificial sweeteners are okay for weight loss.
I've had pain oats for probably 40 years now and at this point I don't think I can have a normal morning without a bowl of oatmeal.
At first my parents feed us this because we were poor, then I ate it out of habit, then I ate it to save money, now I just eat because I don't want anything else any more.
More like saying pancakes are shit unless you put toppings on it (like at least syrup). It's true but kinda defeats the purpose. No one eats them plain.
Uh, no? There are all kinds of foods that are delicious exactly as they are. Most fruits, plenty of vegetables. Noodles need only butter. Meat needs only salt. It's pretty sad if you need to add 17 things to make anything taste good.
Everything needs some level of processing to taste good. Noodles are made from more than one ingredient so that doesn't count. Meat is great with only salt yes, but even better with a pepper corn sauce or something.
The same can be said for oats, it's fine with water and sugar or salt. But better with other things. When you combine ingredients you make something greater than the sum of its parts.
I imagine you have an empty spice cupboard and live on butter and noodles.
Oatmeal can't compare to the natural tasting notes of cinnamon toast crunch
Edit: On a serious note, Oatmeal is kind of like Coffee where you start by getting the ready made instant stuff, get a taste for it, begin to narrow your selection and then create your own perfect formula
Calorie wise berries are just natural sweeteners to give food flavor. If you're eating berries for national values you are probably eating berries wrong.
The large quantities of bioactive compounds place blueberries high on the Aggregate Nutrient Density Index (ANDI). This index rates foods based on their vitamin and mineral content, phytochemical composition, and antioxidant capacity.
I feel like that is a pretty valid reason to eat a berry over just adding sweetener
That sounds really good! Here in Denmark it looks like that kind of oat is mostly used for brewing beer... That seems quite in-character for Denmark, to be honest.
Alright, well, fuck off then. Go eat whatever. If I catch you wrinkling your nose at my breakfast I dehumanize you and treat you as an NPC, just one of the things that's installed in here that I have to walk around.
Or you can let people eat their food without commenting on their business
I just do a cup of soymilk, pinch of salt, teaspoon of molasses until it boils, them i add a cup of oats and a quarter cup of raisins and it's a quick and delicious breakfast
Leave 50g jumbo oats and 100ml soy milk and some cinnamon mixed in a closed container overnight in your fridge. Then in the morning add a splash of additional soy milk, other stuff*, and some honey.
The other stuff I use (all at the same time):
pear/strawberries (depending on season)
walnuts
milled flaxseed
Brazil nuts
omega 3 seed mix (cheap and healthy)
dried cranberry (or raisins)
macadamia nuts
You can also use a nut mix (without peanuts). I just don't because I don't tolerate hazelnut well.
This breakfast is super useful because it includes so many nuts, which are recommended but quite tricky to include in one's diet. And it adds a ton of fiber and a piece of fruit.
I've been eating a bowl of overnight oats for breakfast with just soymilk and some sugar for like two years now and I can't see it changing anytime soon. It just hits the spot for me.
One of my kids used to just scoop out a handful of oats and eat them. But hated museli.
I like savory oats, sweetened oats, overnight oats, fermented oats. Oats are delicious. Saying if you don't like them plain you don't like them is nonsense. Nobody likes straight unsweetened cocoa either.
Induced milk production through selective breeding and hormones (Leads to mastitis, milk fever, early death)
Pre-Slaughter Transportation and Starvation (Exposed to elements in extreme winter cold and summer heat, purposefully starved to decrease risk of fecal contamination)
Half of these things have fallen out of practice since the 1980s. Clearly you even surfing facebook feeds for your sources. You’ve never been on a farm and it shows. You are very outdated, being hyperbolic to go beyond reason and to breed and feed on anxiety. You over shot. While domesticated cows are under much stress, being sensationalist about it is to be disingenuous. You are the bad actor here for all sides. And while it can come from a place of good intention as far as you’re concerned, as all bad acts do too. Do we need to stop drinking milk? Yea. But Stop spreading misinformation. It was inappropriate to stir anxiety and not necessary to lie to get that message across.
I don't use Facebook lol. I'm glad we agree that dairy farming causes severe suffering for cows and their calves, hugely impacts climate change, and that we need to stop doing it for their own benefit, and ours.
All of these practices still definitely happen on various farms around the world, especially in factory farming, and the worst of them are the standard practice. For example, cows make breast milk for their baby calves, not for humans. It's exploitation by its very nature for humans to steal that milk. In almost all cases, the calves are denied the milk, separated from their mothers and killed for veal. Cows are artificially inseminated to keep them continually pregnant to produce milk, and have been selectively bred to overproduce so much that it very often causes them mastitis, lameness, spinal issues and destroys their bodies over time; sometimes they collapse completely. Once they can no longer produce milk, they too are killed for cheap beef at only 4-6 years old when they can live until 20-25. Any exception to this is rare, still involves immense harm to cows and calves, and can't provide enough dairy for everyone (especially for cheese, which uses 10x as much milk than milk itself).
Dairy farming is unsustainable and cruel, and the products are unhealthy for humans and contribute to inflammation and disease. Lactose intolerance in adulthood was the natural state of humans for a reason. The lactose persistent gene is an unnatural adaptation and doesn't prevent the health impacts of dairy.
Taking our anger out on innocent animals and harming the environment and your own health because of a comment on the internet is the sign of a strong mind.
I'm not accusing you of being a bot, I'm asking what it was about my comment that made you react to it and not the other comments mentioning milk. I grew up on a dairy farm and like somebody else mentioned, most of the things you mention are just not common practice anymore. At least not in the west.
Well that's simply not true, I actually counted the practices I referenced and at least 14 out of 19 are standard practice in just about every dairy operation, are unavoidable on a large scale, and the other ones are extremely common as well. Also, thinking "the west" is better for animals is really misguided, since the US, Australia and the UK have some of the worst animal welfare standards in the world, and for example 99% of animal products come from factory farmed animals in the US. While more streamlined in developed countries, by all accounts, other countries aren't quite as cruel toward animals as most western countries. This does have a lot to do with the fact that wealthier nations consume a lot more animal products than poorer nations on average. Take that as what you will. I'm not trying to point fingers at specific countries since every country in the world treats animals terribly in farming systems, and it couldn't be any other way while we as a society are all consuming these products that need to be mass produced for a (rapidly increasing) human population.
I reacted to your comment because it was the first and only comment I saw that supported using milk. I only said I'm not a robot to explain that by my human nature, I didn't read every comment, and I only have a limited amount of time that I would spend on social media like this in general, let alone this specific comments section. And also, making the point once is probably enough for a lot of people to see it. My goal was achieved already. I'm sorry to single you out, or if you felt that was unfair. Rest assured, I blame everyone for supporting animal agriculture equally.
Nice false appeal to hypocrisy to deflect away from the issue of animal exploitation, and blatant whataboutism. 2 wrongs don't make a right. That's a terrible argument.
"Hey, stop beating kids!"
"BuT I sAw yOu UsInG a SmArTpHoNe!"
So as per your own admission (pretty much any device you could be using), that's essentially unavoidable in the current world we live in if you want to be a functional person. Are animal products avoidable? Yes.
That said, I bought my phone second hand from someone who doesn't have an incentive or means to sell more. So I did not financially support any of the practices involved in the production. And only once it breaks down completely, my next phone will be a Fairphone, which is essentially the only ethical phone and didn't exist when I got my current phone. What's your next argument? Oh wait, all the arguments against veganism/defending animal exploitation are just bad faith, rubbish attempts to avoid addressing your own behaviour anyway.
Tbh I've always seen oatmeal as a I don't care what I'm eating so long as I'm able to eat kind of food. Infact it's the main reason I've always seen those meal replacement shakes. Like your doing all this sciencey stuff just to make what is essentially just oatmeal put through a blender. Not to mention that there really isn't anything stopping you from just putting normal oatmeal in a cup and drinking oatmeal.
Sure, it will have the flavor of cardboard if you are making instant oatmeal with hot water. It tastes great if you make kasha: slowly simmer oats in milk and sugar. It is just not worth the time investment if you are not a babushka.
When I was doing a meal plan, my breakfast was oatmeal and egg whites microwaved together, with a pinch of Splenda. None of those things should have gone together. It was not good. They would have been much better separate, but I was in a hurry. Cinnamon helped.
Honestly there’s a Townsend 18th century about “water gruel” I.e. oatmeal and they have a variety of unheard recipes. If y’all don’t like oatmeal, maybe some Onion Gruel would be your speed? 18th Century Working Man’s Meal
My kid doesn't like raisins in his oatmeal and I am starting to worry about him. Those little treasures are one of the best parts of the oatmeal experience.
My problem with raisins in oatmeal is the texture. I don't like the mouthfeel of warm raisins, and I hate biting into a raisin when I thought it was just oats. The taste is fine, though.
Do you seriously meticulously measure those 63g, 28g, 16g etc. every day, or is it a joke? Now, don't get me wrong; I don't judge you if you do. I just couldn't see myself measuring a lot of stuff in such a precise manner first thing in the morning. I'd just go ~60g, ~30g, ~15g and then don't care if it's a few grams off. Or, actually, I'd probably just do "one tablespoon of this, a handful of that" etc.
Edit: "high quality H2O" got me laughing. I guess I'll have to stop using the swamp water for my breakfast...
Yes, but still, what's the meaning in being that precise about these amounts of applesauce, nuts etc.? I get it when it comes to chemical additives, vitamins, minerals, or drugs where a tiny amount means a big difference, but those grams of applesauce seem irrelevant. They probably won't make any noteworthy difference dietarily - only in their mind, possibly, in case it's a ritual to satisfy an OCD, or something else that I just can't imagine(?)
My thought right now is, those amounts are probably calculated based on some recommended amount of calories etc., from a dietary chart or something like that?
Not all rice is enjoyable by itself. It's an unfair comparison between common long or short grain rice and jasmin or other varieties, specifically chosen to have diferentiated aroma and flavour.
After writing my first comment I started thinking and remembered I once read an article on how deplorable the conditions were on japanese warships due to a strict rice based diet.
I generally add milk, chia seeds, flaxseed and cocoa powder, but just oatmeal+milk is good enough for me.
I also sometimes bake them by making cookies (oatmeal, flour, butter, salt, water and various seeds) and the predominant taste is oatmeal. So yes, to me, oatmeal tastes good by itself, it's only shortcomming is that it's dry, but I have munched on just oatmeal from time to time.
Perhaps people aren't put off by the flavour (or lack thereof) so much as the texture. I like oatmeal myself but can't stand the texture of mushrooms. The taste doesn't bother me, just the texture.
A packet of instant flavored oatmeal weighs 43 grams and has 15 grams of added sugar. It's more than 1/3 sugar. I'm not complaining, but that's why it's tasty. It's the same nutritional make up of a serving of reese's peanut butter cups.
To be fair, most things don´t taste that well on their own.
Now finish your bowl of ketchup.
Tell that to some fruit.
Yeah, I've tasted a lot of single men who taste great!
Well, here I am!
To be fair!
Lemon
Wait until you hear about rice and pasta.
Pasta? You mean flour with a bunch of stuff added to it?
huh? d-does your rice and pasta not taste good just boiled with some salt?
get better pasta and rice dude
I don't even need to put salt on my rice. It's great on its own just boiled.
Thai Jasmin rice. Once I found a good hookup oh baby did my view on rice change.
Idk what they're doing to rice over there but everything about it is perfect. Aroma, flavour, texture. It's delicious fluffy white rice every time.
Thank you. That's exactly what I was thinking. This is not so much a "meme" as a "laughing at things stupid people say".
Get a load of this guy from the land of milk and honey. Must be nice to live in the promised land with your fancy oatmeal. /s
What are we calling basic seasonings? Brown sugar is pretty basic imo and oatmeal with brown sugar is basically crack.
Chinese person here, the spices that work well on rice also work on congee, which is already similar to oatmeal, and IMO they work just fine on actual oatmeal too.
Hell we even have a "lazy congee" where you literally just add leftover rice to hot water to make a sort of rice oatmeal. Super convenient in the morning when you're in a rush!
Once you add 17 things to it?
Defenders of McDonald’s chicken nuggets surprised to learn they contain 38 ingredients.
Not to mention drowning each bite in a little tub of bbq sauce
I eat mine dry. Would this get me into the Salty Spitoon?
As do I. I would never sully my delicious tempura fried compressed chicken matter by dipping it in cups of high fructose corn syrup.
I would, and will do it again!
There is a place for people like you but it's not the salty spittoon. You will get to see lots of sponge though and a jacket with lots of cool buckles.
38 different chickens per nugget.
Doesn't matter. Everything besides water and chicken-ish "meat" is only in there in microscopic amounts. Especially water.
Oatmeal is a grain product, so yeah, adding other things to it to make it more to your personal liking is kinda the point.
This is like saying bread is bad because most people like it in a sandwich.
Wheat is bad because you have to add more than just water to make bread
you don't even need yeast, in sweden we have "stick bread" which is just flour, water, baking powder, and salt which you wrap around a stick and grill over a campfire. Perfectly tasty.
Even better with a korv down the hole!
In Canada and Scotland, it's called campfire Bannock.
Yes, no one who says "I love pasta!" is saying that to mean "I love just the pasta on its own without any sauce"
Er...n-no one? ^^'
I have a friend who eats pasta not only plsin, but raw.
Have you ever had fresh baked bread (even flatbread)?
Oatmeal like rice, tofu, grits, or any number of other foods is a flavor vehicle.
I dunno man, rice is pretty delicious on its own
I prefer it with water and maybe some salt though
Oh no I’ve been doing it wrong …
As a kid one of my favorite memories is just eating a plain bowl of white rice with some salt and pepper.
That doesn't sound that plain.
Yeah I think like 80% of foods have some combination of salt, pepper, and garlic. I feel like those three things alone are the most valuable flavorings possible, with many things coming in a close second
Never forget fat as a flavour enhancer too. There is a reason why plain potato makes your gatherer brain go crazy with just some fat (and salt) added
True! There’s a reason butter or oil can be found in so many recipes
Yeah man, I love that!
Rice with butter was what I ate as a kid instead of butter noodles. So unhealthy, so tasty.
Bread, especially naan, is great on its own or as a carrier for more flavorful foods.
Guy Fieri wrote this.
My dudes got whole towns hyped up on flavor.
plain tofu or rice is good though.
Sometimes I just eat cubes of tofu as a snack.
Anyone making the assertion that ingredients must taste good on their own to be considered tasty is free to go try vanilla extract to compare it to vanilla icecream.
https://xkcd.com/1616/
Well no shit, ever heard of cooking?
Why do people insist on randomly hating what other people eat? The textbook definition of differing tastes between different people than cannot be accounted for? Unless your kid is named Oatmeal and they ate them, maybe mind your own business.
You heartless bastard! Oatmeal was my second-favourite son and that bastard seasoned him with store brand ketchup! STORE BRAND!
It's probably a fat fuck that can't stomach anything with less than 30g of sugar.
oh boy fatphobia
I'm not wrong.
I mean, in a pinch you can get away with just butter and salt. Oats taste fine by themselves, it's just really boring after two bites.
EDIT: I am not a horse.
Too bad. I would have been very impressed if you were, considering you're posting comments on an Internet forum.
Imagine the size of a keyboard you would need to accommodate a horse's hoof!
The ergonomics would be daunting.
It would be interesting, but is it true? I would tell you nay.
Well played, sir. Well, played.
That's exactly what a horse would say
As a child I did butter and SUGAR with my oatmeal.
Oats with butter, sugar, cinnamon. Loved that as a kid.
Okay, Ed.
Steel cut oats don't need anything except maybe a little milk. They're delicious, fight me.
Dude, you enjoy plain oat meal. I ain't getting in a fight with someone like that. That's like picking a fight with Popeye because he eats plain spinach.
Plain canned spinach. I could do plain spinach all day, but the idea of canned spinach is horrendous.
I feel like the super saiyan version of Popeye is just a dude who eats https://shop.foodland.com/sm/pickup/rsid/1/product/sweet-sue-canned-whole-chicken-50-oz-id-041358511237 whole straight from the can
Yeah, but if Thor ate oats could he beat Hulk eating grits?
I agree with this. I can handle plain oatmeal. Grits without flavoring though is like wet food sand
Oats, water, pinch of salt. Maybe its cause I was raised protestant but the day should start as miserable as it will go on.
I could never get into steel cut, but this is how I eat rolled oats. But its gotta be Quaker Original or Bobs or something. Instant oats suck ass.
And I like whole oat groats even better. Discrete grains not unlike cooking rice. Groats and steel cut oats are such an improvement on texture. Guess there's a little trade-off in cooking time, but it really doesn't take that long. I'll make a little pot and have it for a week.
And it fills your stomach a lot.
I love and eat oatmeal every day. More than ones through the day actually, plain
Just oats and water.
If i want something different than nothing beats fruits in this game for me. A good apple sauce is also awesome on oatmeal.
Not even salt? Whoa
Some yogurt and honey is great in my steel cut oats
Question. What is the difference between "steel cut oats" and regular oatmeal?
The article that someone else posted explains it well. The thing I would add is that once you start using steel cut oats, you'll never go back
Nah, steel cut are alright, but take too much time to be used regularly, for me anyway.
https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/rolled-vs-steel-cut-oats
From the (AI generated?) article...
Steel-cut oats
Steel-cut oats are most closely related to the original, unprocessed oat groat.
Steel-cut oats have a coarser, chewier texture and nuttier flavor than rolled or quick oats.
They also take longer to prepare, with average cooking times ranging from 15–30 minutes.
Rolled oats
Rolled oats, or old-fashioned oats, are oat groats that have gone through a steaming and flattening process.
They have a milder flavor and softer texture and take much less time to make than steel-cut oats, as they have been partially cooked.
Do yourself a favor and sub the water with milk or a milk substitute. Takes the oatmeal to 11
I eat oats just about every single day. The only time I'm not eating oats is around the holidays.
But I definitely don't mind unflavored oats. Normally I eat them savory, but plain oats are fine I suppose.
No matter how much you try to trick us by posting on the internet, we can still tell you're a horse!
It's fine by itself. I mean, it ain't winning any awards for taste, because it's not good but it's not awful either. It just exists. 🤷🏻♂️
I just put a handful of blueberries or cut up strawberries in mine for some stimulation. The main reason for me to have oatmeal is that it is super quick and extremely filling with just a small portion. Efficiency food.
The defense of Oatmeal is that it's insanely good for your health and will help you lose weight if you can shovel unsweetened oatmeal down your pie hole every morning.
Doesn't have to be unsweetened, just unsweetened with natural sugars like, sugar or honey. Stevia or other artificial sweeteners are okay for weight loss.
You eat oatmeal because it's good for your health.
I eat oatmeal because it gives me feel good fiber poop.
We are not the same.
I use stArch BTW
I make it with milk instead of water and mix in some sugar and cinnamon. I don’t feel like that’s an excessive amount of condiments lol
Instead of sugar, I add honey and banana. Easiest healthy breakfast ever.
Everyone defending blank canvases arw like, "once I add 17 things to it, it looks so good."
That's what op sounds like.
You ever eat plain oatmeal? It's alright, a bit plain but it's got it's distinct subtle flavor and isn't bad.
And here I am, enjoying just plain oats with tap water 🤷♂️
If all you eat is flavoured, over salted, over sweetened, highly processed food, then that's all your tastebuds will find enjoyable.
Hey, not everyone can be a gruel eating peasant /s
I've had pain oats for probably 40 years now and at this point I don't think I can have a normal morning without a bowl of oatmeal.
At first my parents feed us this because we were poor, then I ate it out of habit, then I ate it to save money, now I just eat because I don't want anything else any more.
sounds like a painful breakfast
lol .... yes I love my pain oats .... they go good with plain oats too ... I don't mind the spelling mistake, I'll leave it in because it looks funny.
My sibling in oatmeal, I've found you! Plain oats taste good. It's my favorite way to eat them.
This. But I use very little water. I love when my oatmeal won't slip off my spoon.
I feel personally attacked.
Did anyone want the list?
It's what I'm here for.
Brown sugar, maple syrup, vanilla extract, cinnamon, and the magical wonder of "apple pie spice".
That sounds pretty great - thank you!
It's like saying you like plain white flour, when an reality you like lasagna
More like saying pancakes are shit unless you put toppings on it (like at least syrup). It's true but kinda defeats the purpose. No one eats them plain.
I prefer pancakes plain tbh. But I also make them a bit sweeter.
I do. Not always, but sometimes the toppings are just too sweet for my taste, especially in the morning.
I've eaten oats with oatmilk. It was good.
Is that not just oatmeal and water?
No, it's oats and oat milk
Yeah, so oats plus oats plus water
Yeah, more oat per oat
Isn't that the same for literally everything that we eat?
Found the tofu fan
Random thought: like eggs, depending on how you cook the tofu determines how good it is.
Lightly fried tofu flipped over a few times? Delicious. Tofu while it's limp from, gross.
Shh!
Uh, no? There are all kinds of foods that are delicious exactly as they are. Most fruits, plenty of vegetables. Noodles need only butter. Meat needs only salt. It's pretty sad if you need to add 17 things to make anything taste good.
Everything needs some level of processing to taste good. Noodles are made from more than one ingredient so that doesn't count. Meat is great with only salt yes, but even better with a pepper corn sauce or something.
The same can be said for oats, it's fine with water and sugar or salt. But better with other things. When you combine ingredients you make something greater than the sum of its parts.
I imagine you have an empty spice cupboard and live on butter and noodles.
That's pretty rich coming from the person that apparently only eats hot pockets and other ultra processed garbage.
Never eaten a hot pocket in my life. I don't even know what they are and I've never seen them in the shops here.
Do you know what a spice is? Do you know what a herb is? When would you use an aromatic? What is mirepoix?
I bet your soup is butter and water and not praise worthy at all.
I literally cannot imagine being this pathetic.
Same with Starbucks coffee
I literally eat oatmeal raw and dry like a godamm horse eating out of a trough. Yes I have a problem.
Oatmeal can't compare to the natural tasting notes of cinnamon toast crunch
Edit: On a serious note, Oatmeal is kind of like Coffee where you start by getting the ready made instant stuff, get a taste for it, begin to narrow your selection and then create your own perfect formula
Is this why I'm like this?
Black coffee.
Plain oatmeal.
Like a psychopath.
7 of those 17 things are sugar and sugar accessories
As much as I love a good, sweet sugar and cinnamon oatmeal, just adding berries and some nuts is actually really good as well
Its still sugar, Berries are just carbohydrates and water.
That's only true from a calorie standpoint.
The carbohydrate structure is much more complex and is released much slower than with refined white sugar.
No one has ever gotten diabetes from eating to many berries alone (no data to back this claim up, but this is the internet. I'll take a leap)
Calorie wise berries are just natural sweeteners to give food flavor. If you're eating berries for national values you are probably eating berries wrong.
The large quantities of bioactive compounds place blueberries high on the Aggregate Nutrient Density Index (ANDI). This index rates foods based on their vitamin and mineral content, phytochemical composition, and antioxidant capacity.
I feel like that is a pretty valid reason to eat a berry over just adding sweetener
Y'all sleeping on savory oatmeal. Make it with stock instead of milk or water, throw a fried egg on top, and that's good eatin
You've basically just made gruel.
Whatever it's called, it's delicious
here in sweden we have oat rice (they just snip the oats in half lengthwise), which makes that even better
We call that steel cut oats in the US.
Can confirm, it's much better
That sounds really good! Here in Denmark it looks like that kind of oat is mostly used for brewing beer... That seems quite in-character for Denmark, to be honest.
Oatmeal with some cinnamon is great, if you don't have the palate of a child
Pinch of salt for me.
If imma be fancy I add bananas and a libble but of honey.
*little bit of honey... ._.;;
Alright, well, fuck off then. Go eat whatever. If I catch you wrinkling your nose at my breakfast I dehumanize you and treat you as an NPC, just one of the things that's installed in here that I have to walk around.
Or you can let people eat their food without commenting on their business
I just do a cup of soymilk, pinch of salt, teaspoon of molasses until it boils, them i add a cup of oats and a quarter cup of raisins and it's a quick and delicious breakfast
Plus a bit of honey once it's all done
Molasses is like honey on steroids. So more honey is absolutely a go.
Oats, milk, chia seeds and maple syrup in a container. Leave overnight in fridge. Great breakfast meal and a good substitute for sugary cereal.
Leave 50g jumbo oats and 100ml soy milk and some cinnamon mixed in a closed container overnight in your fridge. Then in the morning add a splash of additional soy milk, other stuff*, and some honey.
The other stuff I use (all at the same time):
You can also use a nut mix (without peanuts). I just don't because I don't tolerate hazelnut well.
This breakfast is super useful because it includes so many nuts, which are recommended but quite tricky to include in one's diet. And it adds a ton of fiber and a piece of fruit.
I've been eating a bowl of overnight oats for breakfast with just soymilk and some sugar for like two years now and I can't see it changing anytime soon. It just hits the spot for me.
no frozen berries? :(
If I've got some I'm not opposed, but I never do usually.
Meanwhile: Grits + salted butter
Cheese or GTFO
If I'm feeling fancy, I make some sausage gravy to put on the grits
🤤
I'll eat oats by themselves and dry
Neeeey I disagree
One of my kids used to just scoop out a handful of oats and eat them. But hated museli.
I like savory oats, sweetened oats, overnight oats, fermented oats. Oats are delicious. Saying if you don't like them plain you don't like them is nonsense. Nobody likes straight unsweetened cocoa either.
Salt and sugar, that's it.
Honey and peanut butter.
Cum and additional cum
2 servings please
I don't need 17 things,Just sugar and milk is fine.
You can add sugar to many things and they'll taste ok.
By consuming dairy, you're funding these abuses done to innocent dairy cows:
Restraint / Restricted movement
Repeated Artificial insemination (anal and vaginal rape, sexual abuse) and forced pregnancies
Electroejaculation (Forced ejaculation, anal rape, sexual abuse)
Dehorning / debudding (cutting / burning off horns, without anesthetic)
Ear tagging (no anesthetic)
Tail docking (cutting off the tail, no anesthetic)
Branding (no anesthetic)
Nose ringing (to prevent the baby calve from suckling, no anesthetic)
Udder singe (burning an udder to remove the hair, no anesthetic)
High stocking density (cramped, unhygienic conditions, infections go untreated, shit everywhere)
Cannibalism (Blood and Bone Meal, How do you think Mad Cow started?)
Separation from child (calves) immediately after birth (so we can get that milk)
Killing of calves immediately if deemed unprofitable (throat slit alive, bolt to head, hammered to death)
Veal calves (Social deprivation, tight confinement, and restricted movement [to keep the meat tender], killed at 4-6 months of age)
Growth Hormones and antibiotics
Induced milk production through selective breeding and hormones (Leads to mastitis, milk fever, early death)
Pre-Slaughter Transportation and Starvation (Exposed to elements in extreme winter cold and summer heat, purposefully starved to decrease risk of fecal contamination)
The murder of someone who does not want to die (bolt in the head, throat slit, skinned alive)
Killed at only 5 years old on average (natural lifespan is 20 years)
Cows milk is for baby cows!
If you dislike these practices, you can easily stop funding them by going vegan.
Half of these things have fallen out of practice since the 1980s. Clearly you even surfing facebook feeds for your sources. You’ve never been on a farm and it shows. You are very outdated, being hyperbolic to go beyond reason and to breed and feed on anxiety. You over shot. While domesticated cows are under much stress, being sensationalist about it is to be disingenuous. You are the bad actor here for all sides. And while it can come from a place of good intention as far as you’re concerned, as all bad acts do too. Do we need to stop drinking milk? Yea. But Stop spreading misinformation. It was inappropriate to stir anxiety and not necessary to lie to get that message across.
I don't use Facebook lol. I'm glad we agree that dairy farming causes severe suffering for cows and their calves, hugely impacts climate change, and that we need to stop doing it for their own benefit, and ours.
All of these practices still definitely happen on various farms around the world, especially in factory farming, and the worst of them are the standard practice. For example, cows make breast milk for their baby calves, not for humans. It's exploitation by its very nature for humans to steal that milk. In almost all cases, the calves are denied the milk, separated from their mothers and killed for veal. Cows are artificially inseminated to keep them continually pregnant to produce milk, and have been selectively bred to overproduce so much that it very often causes them mastitis, lameness, spinal issues and destroys their bodies over time; sometimes they collapse completely. Once they can no longer produce milk, they too are killed for cheap beef at only 4-6 years old when they can live until 20-25. Any exception to this is rare, still involves immense harm to cows and calves, and can't provide enough dairy for everyone (especially for cheese, which uses 10x as much milk than milk itself).
Dairy farming is unsustainable and cruel, and the products are unhealthy for humans and contribute to inflammation and disease. Lactose intolerance in adulthood was the natural state of humans for a reason. The lactose persistent gene is an unnatural adaptation and doesn't prevent the health impacts of dairy.
I'm going to buy a burger after work becuase of this comment alone.
Taking our anger out on innocent animals and harming the environment and your own health because of a comment on the internet is the sign of a strong mind.
Trying to guilt trip everyone with a novel just because you read the word milk is not helping your agenda. Just a heads-up.
I'm glad we agree
What made you decide to single out my comment without commenting on any of the other comments that mention milk? At least be consistent.
Am I a robot? No, I'm not going to reply on every comment. I guess you care more about nonsense arguments than animals, the planet and your health.
I'm not accusing you of being a bot, I'm asking what it was about my comment that made you react to it and not the other comments mentioning milk. I grew up on a dairy farm and like somebody else mentioned, most of the things you mention are just not common practice anymore. At least not in the west.
Well that's simply not true, I actually counted the practices I referenced and at least 14 out of 19 are standard practice in just about every dairy operation, are unavoidable on a large scale, and the other ones are extremely common as well. Also, thinking "the west" is better for animals is really misguided, since the US, Australia and the UK have some of the worst animal welfare standards in the world, and for example 99% of animal products come from factory farmed animals in the US. While more streamlined in developed countries, by all accounts, other countries aren't quite as cruel toward animals as most western countries. This does have a lot to do with the fact that wealthier nations consume a lot more animal products than poorer nations on average. Take that as what you will. I'm not trying to point fingers at specific countries since every country in the world treats animals terribly in farming systems, and it couldn't be any other way while we as a society are all consuming these products that need to be mass produced for a (rapidly increasing) human population.
I reacted to your comment because it was the first and only comment I saw that supported using milk. I only said I'm not a robot to explain that by my human nature, I didn't read every comment, and I only have a limited amount of time that I would spend on social media like this in general, let alone this specific comments section. And also, making the point once is probably enough for a lot of people to see it. My goal was achieved already. I'm sorry to single you out, or if you felt that was unfair. Rest assured, I blame everyone for supporting animal agriculture equally.
I will admit I was overgeneralizing by saying "the west" but where I'm from (Northern Europe) most of these practices are certainly not the norm.
By typing this on pretty much any device you could be using, you're funding wars, cartels and child labor. .
Nice false appeal to hypocrisy to deflect away from the issue of animal exploitation, and blatant whataboutism. 2 wrongs don't make a right. That's a terrible argument.
"Hey, stop beating kids!"
"BuT I sAw yOu UsInG a SmArTpHoNe!"
So as per your own admission (pretty much any device you could be using), that's essentially unavoidable in the current world we live in if you want to be a functional person. Are animal products avoidable? Yes.
That said, I bought my phone second hand from someone who doesn't have an incentive or means to sell more. So I did not financially support any of the practices involved in the production. And only once it breaks down completely, my next phone will be a Fairphone, which is essentially the only ethical phone and didn't exist when I got my current phone. What's your next argument? Oh wait, all the arguments against veganism/defending animal exploitation are just bad faith, rubbish attempts to avoid addressing your own behaviour anyway.
I use breast milk from my hucow so these don't apply to me.
lol
Tbh I've always seen oatmeal as a I don't care what I'm eating so long as I'm able to eat kind of food. Infact it's the main reason I've always seen those meal replacement shakes. Like your doing all this sciencey stuff just to make what is essentially just oatmeal put through a blender. Not to mention that there really isn't anything stopping you from just putting normal oatmeal in a cup and drinking oatmeal.
Oh god. For a moment, I thought the web comic artist did something.
Meanwhile I don't even cook the oatmeal, just eat the little flakes straight up and like it.
Just had oatmeal and blueberries. But fine. Have it your way and die angry about something innocuous that no body else cares about.
Uh...brown sugar is one thing, not 17.
Most brown sugar is a combination of white sugar and molasses, so technically it's two...
Molasses is a byproduct of sugar production, so its just one ingredient that was separated and recombined.
Meanwhile my regular tomato sauce has: tomatoes, tomato paste, oil, sugar, garlic, basil, oregano, chilli powder, crushed pepper, onions, mushrooms, ground beef, and sausage.
Sure, it will have the flavor of cardboard if you are making instant oatmeal with hot water. It tastes great if you make kasha: slowly simmer oats in milk and sugar. It is just not worth the time investment if you are not a babushka.
Pizza is made of flour.
When I was doing a meal plan, my breakfast was oatmeal and egg whites microwaved together, with a pinch of Splenda. None of those things should have gone together. It was not good. They would have been much better separate, but I was in a hurry. Cinnamon helped.
See also: Grits, coffee
Black coffee is delicious
The best coffee is made of two things: coffee beans and good quality water.
Try adding a bit of salt.
it tastes good plain. With milk
Ugh, it's like wet shredded cardboard when it's plain.
It tastes good if you are not dependant on sugar to allow you to enjoy food.
Or you're sensitive enough to sugar that the milk suffices your desire for sweet
There's quite a bit of sugar in milk though, maybe just try it with water?
The secret is that you have to always add salt. Even a little salt can make oatmeal so much better tasting!
Same with wheat though?
I agree that oats are great.
I eat plain oatmeal
Wtf
I'm eating a bowl of tasty paste right now. Magical.
Honestly there’s a Townsend 18th century about “water gruel” I.e. oatmeal and they have a variety of unheard recipes. If y’all don’t like oatmeal, maybe some Onion Gruel would be your speed? 18th Century Working Man’s Meal
I eat it plain most of the time, but with brown sugar and/or strawberries is a good combo too.
Add a bit of barley, some yeast, water and wait. After a week add heat and distill. Add oak chips and age it a few weeks outside. Add water to taste.
Treat it like rice and add the same things. Works out really well with less cooking time and healthier.
Chicken fried oatmeal just sounds disgusting though
I tried rolling sushi in oatmeal and it was terrible.
sashitmeal?
Garlic? Sure fam
I think it's fine alone
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everyone defending oatmeal is like, "oh once i add 17 things to it, it tastes so good!"
Two things for me- honey and raisins. I'm good with that.
My kid doesn't like raisins in his oatmeal and I am starting to worry about him. Those little treasures are one of the best parts of the oatmeal experience.
My problem with raisins in oatmeal is the texture. I don't like the mouthfeel of warm raisins, and I hate biting into a raisin when I thought it was just oats. The taste is fine, though.
Put the raisins just before eating. I hate the texture of soggy raisins, but like them, when theyre dry.
That is already when I would put them in, and is how I came to my conclusions.
The worst part of any oatmeal mix, I used to separate them out, now I just hunt them down to get the worst over with before I can actually enjoy it.
I doubt I could convince my daughter to even try oatmeal. She won't even eat cereal. All she'll agree to eat for breakfast right now is Pop Tarts.
Raisins are dried wrinkley bugs no sane living being can tolerate.
Blasphemy. mods, this is a bannable offense right? Hate speech of the highest order.
80g rolled oats
190g high quality H2O
--microwave 90 seconds--
63g unsweetened applesauce (refrigerated)
28g shelled, crushed walnuts
16g PBFit
25g Muscle Pharm chocolate protein
1 diced Granny Smith apple
Every morning.
Do you seriously meticulously measure those 63g, 28g, 16g etc. every day, or is it a joke? Now, don't get me wrong; I don't judge you if you do. I just couldn't see myself measuring a lot of stuff in such a precise manner first thing in the morning. I'd just go ~60g, ~30g, ~15g and then don't care if it's a few grams off. Or, actually, I'd probably just do "one tablespoon of this, a handful of that" etc.
Edit: "high quality H2O" got me laughing. I guess I'll have to stop using the swamp water for my breakfast...
It wouldn't be that hard with a scale. You just reset it after you add every ingredient.
Yes, but still, what's the meaning in being that precise about these amounts of applesauce, nuts etc.? I get it when it comes to chemical additives, vitamins, minerals, or drugs where a tiny amount means a big difference, but those grams of applesauce seem irrelevant. They probably won't make any noteworthy difference dietarily - only in their mind, possibly, in case it's a ritual to satisfy an OCD, or something else that I just can't imagine(?)
My thought right now is, those amounts are probably calculated based on some recommended amount of calories etc., from a dietary chart or something like that?
Same with rice enjoyers. Either you like rice or you mix it with other stuff. Be honest to yourself
Not all rice is enjoyable by itself. It's an unfair comparison between common long or short grain rice and jasmin or other varieties, specifically chosen to have diferentiated aroma and flavour.
I like rice
No, when you're poor, rice taste sweet.
You can survive on rice alone. Every Asian country can testify on that. But rice, alone, gets boring fast.
At least throw some kind of sauce on top, if nothing else to put back the vitamin A rice lacks.
No you cannot, malnourishment from rice heavy diets is absolutely a thing.
You're correct.
After writing my first comment I started thinking and remembered I once read an article on how deplorable the conditions were on japanese warships due to a strict rice based diet.
That's because they're using white rice. Using brown rice would be a better option.
What does Rice with Msg count as? Does it count as plain rice?
Who "defends" oatmeal? And since when does it require more than one or perhaps two additives?
Oatmeal is a base, like soup broth. It's a vehicle for added flavor and texture to other stuff.
My recipes, adjust the amount to taste.
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I generally add milk, chia seeds, flaxseed and cocoa powder, but just oatmeal+milk is good enough for me.
I also sometimes bake them by making cookies (oatmeal, flour, butter, salt, water and various seeds) and the predominant taste is oatmeal. So yes, to me, oatmeal tastes good by itself, it's only shortcomming is that it's dry, but I have munched on just oatmeal from time to time.
I'm currently eating oatmeal with raisins, cinnamon, honey, and peanut butter
Damn that sounds good
It is
It only needs cinnamon
Nah, just a slab of butter and some brown sugar.
Perhaps people aren't put off by the flavour (or lack thereof) so much as the texture. I like oatmeal myself but can't stand the texture of mushrooms. The taste doesn't bother me, just the texture.
I put in only a little water to make mine thicker. It helps a lot with the texture
Literally just milk, honey, and fruits.
olny blueberry instant oatmeal
A packet of instant flavored oatmeal weighs 43 grams and has 15 grams of added sugar. It's more than 1/3 sugar. I'm not complaining, but that's why it's tasty. It's the same nutritional make up of a serving of reese's peanut butter cups.
I eat oatmeal most mornings and for years I hated it until I figured out how I like it. This is my formula and it works for me.
Old fashioned oats (quick oats are fine too)
Peanut butter power
Truvia brown sugar
I use tap water and only just enough. I like my oats thick and not mushy. Just enough water that it's not crunchy.
Peanut butter powder?
Yep! It's a thing. I want to say it's in the peanut butter section
Never heard of it. It's there a specific reason to get powder instead of a jar? Does it last longer or something
no fat, mixes into things better
Since it's a powder, it's good for mixing.
Oatmeal, milk, and sweetener for me. So 2 things.
raw rolled oats >>>> oatmeal or porridge
Try overnight oats using jumbo oats
1lb of sugar, some fake strawberries color with one cup oatmeal and it will taste good