Oatmeal that is not groats but is not rolled either. I don't know what they did to it but it is a little bit thicker than rolled oats.
* trail mix with shredded coconut and dried things but no chocolate because, eh, there is plenty of that stuff around here.
* banana
* cinnamon
* vanilla
* butter
* pinch of salt. Oatmeal is totally blah without salt. That's the first thing to go in.
* milk. I have cream but, come on, this is already loaded up with stuff plus I'm thinking of making ice cream.
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Steel-cut oats?
Yes, MH, but these are not steel cut and they are not rolled. They're probably steamed.
Oats are put through several abuses to make them easier and faster for consumers to use. Each step subtracts some kind of nutrition so for that reason plain old unmessed with Irish or Scottish groats are considered best by nutritionalists and by people who care about such things like vegans and Krishnas. Groats are the whole grain minus the husk, they are big and fat and they take a good long while to cook.
To make groats cook faster they're steamed to give them a head start.
Then dried.
Smashed with heavy roller to flatten them out to paper thin bits for rolled oats.
Cut into bits for rapid cooking for steel-cut oats.
Steamed, smashed to smithereens, cut to tiny bits then cut some more, turned into powder, mixed with sugar and salt and flavorings and dehydrated marshmallow bits and measured out in meager 1 oz portion so that it takes 4 packages for a decent breakfast but one that microwaves in 1.5 minutes for instant oatmeal.
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