Friends, Romans, Countrymen, Lend Me Your Oats...

I love oatmeal......just love it! I can eat it anyway but my favorite is raisins and walnuts....with a touch of brown sugar. I could eat it everyday....but it doesn't stick with me so I only eat it on my days off or I would be starving in an hour after I got to work!

Oatmeal is something I had to learn to like..The way I started out was when we had extra money, we would buy different kinds of dried fruit and nuts and I would mix that with honey.. Can't do that anymore, so I rarely eat it again and went back to my cream of wheat..

In Scotland I grew up on porridge with sugar and cream or milk. Never from instant always "Real" porage (Scottish spelling). I had never even heard of the instant until I came to the States. I also loved crispy fried herring which was coated in oatmeal not bread crumbs.

I've been having oatmeal for breakfast for the last 30 - odd years. I didnt used to like it - hated it when I was a kid, but then when I started to cook for myself I tried it again and I realised that it was the way my mother made it and served it that I didnt like (with sugar and cream on) I like it just made with salt, and none of your fancy stuff either - just plain old porridge oats made with real rolled oats, water, salt and nothing else.

I love it, and I always have. My mom used to make oatmeal for breakfast often, and I couldn't understand why my brothers didn't much care for it. My favorite kind is the steel cut or Irish oatmeal. It takes longer to cook, but it's worth it. I like the instant and quick oats too, and I always have them on hand. Funny you should bring up the subject of oatmeal, since I've got a loaf of oatmeal bread in my breadmaker now. I'm going to use it for some chicken salad sandwiches for lunch tomorrow.

I like oatmeal myself but not with some of the added fruits as they are sickeningly sweet. I do like Weight smart oatmeal. I also like trader Joes brand that has extra protein in it and added omega 3 and is sweetend with a natural sweetner. It does not bother my diabetes at all.

hmmm, that reminds me I'm supposed to be eating oatmeal every day.. or cheerios or other whole oat cereal.. but the oatmeal (not the instant packets) is so cheap! Yes, I must get back on track.. it lowers cholesterol and is SO healthy.. maybe if I could find a cheap enough instant flavored it'd perk up my interest more.. and faster preparation! How about with some raisns and walnuts.. that's delicious!

Hi Spookybutt, Oats have been a staple for me for ages - since time immemorial, actually. I'm not sure about oatmeal, but I just buy one or two kilogram bags of rolled oats and store them in the freezer (kills any weevil eggs or other lurking bugs). And the oats are an excellent ingredient in whatever breakfast recipe one likes to throw together. I know that oats are generally used to make porridge, which is easy enough to do, and very wholesome on a cold winter's morning. But I'm not so keen on cooking oats, and much prefer to just mix them in with other stuff, like fruit juice, chopped fruit and even yoghurt on occasion. The oats really soak up liquids if you leave them in a bowl in the fridge overnight. One thing I have discovered is that rolled oats (and I'd imagine also quick cooking oats, which are just pulverized rolled oats) are an excellent extender for many compounded foods like fish cakes, cookies and even omelets, where they take on the general flavor but also add a bit of substance and texture to the food. If oats are used to make porridge, then raisins, currants and sultanas are an excellent additive, because they absorb moisture from the mix and swell up, as well as adding a bit of sweetness to the dish. I guess it's easier to work with oats than other grains like wheat and even rice, because you can happily consume oats without having to actually expend the energy to cook them. All the more reason to consider them as a healthy breakfast cereal.

I had to eat in college and refuse to eat it now. I was a poor college student and had to eat oatmeal for cereal, cookies and bread. Friends gave me the oatmeal, as they wanted me to have food. The strange news is my youngest daughter likes oatmeal. She dislikes plain oatmeal and won't eat it, but likes apple flavored and cinnamon.

I'm not real fond of oatmeal, I'll eat it once in a while. Don't ya know, when we did the allergy testing back in the 1980's, oats was one of 4 foods I WASN'T allergic to! I have learned to eat almonds, but I still don't care for them and avoid it if I can. I won't eat "real" nuts - almonds aren't real nuts.

When I was little I did not like oatmeal....now I do...I love maple oatmeal.

I like oatmeal, but I go through phases with it. I have not had it in a long time, but I did buy some the other day. I am going to try eating some and see if I can get into the habit again. When I was working as a manager at Taco Bell a few years ago, I had several boxes of oatmeal in the office that I would eat when I got hungry instead of eating Taco Bell food. I like the apple cinnamon and maple and brown sugar the best.

I love oats! We call it porridge here, but it is the same.! I love mine plain so I can add what I want to it. Usually brown sugar (sweetner and added fibre) and lots of good milk! Yum! If it weren't the middle of the night, I would be having to get some as now I have a craving for it!

I really like oatmeal but only when I myself prepares it because I can't eat much whenever my mom prepares it for me, maybe because of different preferences among us. Anyway, the last time I tried to eat oatmeal, I tried to put on it some pineapples. recommended? no. It didn't have anything to do with my taste. Since this discussion's about oatmeal, let me tell you that my favorite cookie would be oatmeal raisin cookies! :) yumyum! :D

I really do not like oatmeal at all. My grandma used to babysit me and she would fix oats and creme of wheat. I had to eat what she cooked for us and I never did acquire a taste for either one of them. I am not sure why, but I added fruits to it and still could not eat it. It just didn't taste good at all for me.

I do like to eat oatmeal. I will eat it every day for a few months, then I don't have it for a while. That's the way I have always done it. I eat the Quaker Oats quick 1 minute kind. I put in honey and cinnamon and it taste delicious.

I like oatmeal, and I usually eat it every morning at work for breakfast. My favorite would be blueberry. I'm not sure if I have ever tried banana bread oatmeal or not, but that does sound good too!

I haven't tried that yet. I might put it on my grocery list. Groceries are running low and grocery day is coming up. Have to prepare! Oatmeal is always a must in our house. So tasty too.

I've always loved oatmeal. My mother and grandmother made it for us when the temperatures were down. When I got out on my own, I discovered instant and flavored oatmeal - and I eat it year round. I like maple and brown sugar. Yum. And now they know that oatmeal is so good for you.

Oatmeal is a great way to start the day. A lot of people skip breakfast thinking they'll lose weight that way, or just because they'd rather sleep late. Having a bowl of oatmeal in the morning will give you the nutrients, fiber and energy that you need to be able to make it to lunch without having to resort to craving a piece of coffee cake when it's cofee break time. I love oatmeal. But I have to admit that I don't like it when the weather is warm. It's like a "winter" thing with me. During the Spring and Summer I prefer crunchy muesli with yoghurt stirred through it. Same oat flakes just with a summery twist imho.