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gement ([personal profile] gement) wrote2012-01-12 09:23 am

I am actually making a post about oatmeal.

I hereby thank [livejournal.com profile] tylik for teaching me that if you dump some oat bran in a bowl with water and microwave it for 3 minutes, you get delicious hot breakfast cereal exactly the consistency that I like. This is not quite as exciting to me as the new flame, but it's surprisingly close.

I eat both breakfast and lunch at work every day. I strongly prefer to eat things that I can buy as 1 or 2 ingredients at the grocery store, keep in the freezer or desk drawer, dump in the microwave if necessary, and eat.

Because I've been doing this for a while, my available hot foods include broccoli, spinach, frozen peas, strawberry-and-cream soup, toast-and-cottage-cheese, sausage with potatoes, and scrambled eggs. And now hot cereal.

(I'll also eat canned stew and hot pockets, but I tend to keep those in reserve for when the fresh stuff runs out. I don't go to the store often enough to keep things like spinach constantly available.)

Me and Bert, baby. Me and Bert.

[identity profile] tylik.livejournal.com 2012-01-13 02:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Glad to hear it's working out for you!

I am ridiculously fond of oat bran, in many forms, but convenience is a big one. At home we take turns mixing up a big pot of oat bran / rice bran / ground flax seeds / crushed walnuts (or almonds) and cinnamon... but when I'm travelling it tends to get simplified.

[identity profile] gement.livejournal.com 2012-01-13 06:37 pm (UTC)(link)
I've already preemptively thrown ground flax seed into my bin of it at work. I'm using frozen raspberries as my highlight flavor for now.

[identity profile] artdreams1.livejournal.com 2012-01-21 01:53 pm (UTC)(link)
How did I miss that song!! Chicka chicka chicka boom.

Love you so.