Needles & Grooves

Depends what you consider plain...I usually have mine with almond milk and brown sugar

i'm concerned about how your snot looks.....
and regarding oatmeal, add some milk, honey and fresh fruit.... yummmmmm

I had to eat plain oatmeal for two meals a day, for like a week, earlier this year. You aren’t wrong (and if I ever see oatmeal outside of a cookie again it’s too soon).

I eat it plain and it’s delicious. There is something about the oats and the warm water that make it great , but when my tastebuds are enjoying the cinnamon sugar and raisins oooo wee. Plain oatmeal ftw

As in porridge? Supposedly it needs a pinch of salt when making it and then loads of sweet stuff afterwards.

I’m all for oatmeal with butter and brown sugar maybe some milk or raisins, but I’m having some unpleasant stomach issues and ate a bowl of plain oatmeal this morning and well it’s chunky snot man!

And yes @Joe Mac it should be cooked with a touch of salt. The garbage I ate this morning was not.

Salt and butter, always the keys to tasty food

Over here in America, nobody cooks their food... so everything is full of salt so everyone is scared of it, so people don’t cook with it. Which is rediculous.

We have that too, people are so accustomed to putting salt on their own food that they complain that good chefs make the food too salty Well that and the tyranny of “well done” meat...

I stumbled on this article in my feed. Cue the "we are all connected" music:

I prefer savory oatmeal, which turns some of my friends off.

@bfly tell me more about this savory treatment, B(obby)fl(a)y.

lots of the aforementioned butter and salt, but then a hard turn with garlic, chopped chives, poached egg, pepper, cherry tomatoes. I think it's a blank canvas for sweet or savory, just like rice and grits. I sit in the savory camp mostly.

Sold. A poached egg is the cornerstone of my entire self-care regimen.

Overnight oats with some pea milk or almond milk plus a bit of vanilla and chia seeds is a pretty solid go-to workday breakfast.

same, hatbird. also, if anyone takes this route, blister the tomatoes in a pan first. feel free to add cheese.

Also if you’re using oatmeal for its intended purpose (cookies) soak those raisins in some spiced rum first.