Oatmeal, brown sugar, pecans, strawberries, butter and milk

Brown sugar, cinnamon, and a teeny-tiny itty-bitty pinch of  SALT, because oatmeal, any grain for that matter, is nothing, and I mean nothing, without SALT.

The best kind of oatmeal is the full grain that looks like wheat, groats. They take a long time to cook.

To go faster the groats are smashed with a heavy powerful roller, called rolled oats.

To go even faster the smashed rolled oats are cut into bits, called steel-cut oats

To go even faster than that the oatmeal is steamed along with all the other abuse whereupon it forfeits much of its nutritional value but it cooks in a snap, marketed as instant oatmeal.

Added a lot more cream than shown at top, a lie, for photography porpoises.