Breakfast of Champions

... and of mostly-chained-to-their-desks Program Coordinators...


Nestled right there between my computer and phone sits what is customarily my morning sustenance.  Really, I eat this almost daily - Joe, too.

It's brown sugar/cinnamon instant oatmeal - but homemade instead of store bought, conveniently premixed in 10-portion batches so we can easily grab it in a hurry.  Joe eats his plain, with milk or cream, but without fruit, and at home before he leaves. 

Sometimes I eat mine plain, too, but I prefer to add fruit... diced apple or blackberries picked fresh from the yard or, like today, cut up fresh strawberries... and I never eat it at home.  I eat mine at the office.

Wanna know how to do it?

Get a good sized bowl with a cover
scoop 5 cups of quick oats into it
add 10 T of brown sugar
and 10 t of cinnamon

That's it... 10 portions of instant brown sugar/cinnamon oatmeal. 

Just scoop a 1/2 cup into a bowl
and add 3/4 cup water
microwave for 2 minutes
stir and add fruit.

Voila.  You now have a decent sized portion of yummy, hot oatmeal.  Five work-day breakfasts for two.

Mmmmm.


If my dad could see this, he wouldn't believe his eyes.  He always loved oatmeal... and it always made me gag.  Blech.  He never understood how I couldn't like it.

I just started eating it last year... wintertime.  At work on the those chilly mornings, I'd see the students pulling their [store bought but delicious smelling] oatmeal out of the microwave all steamy and beckoning, and decided I'd give it another shot.

Hmph... what do you know.  I liked it!

Maybe I should give grits another try...

Nahhhh!