My favorite preparation of oatmeal

Oatmeal is one of those rare foods, which not only tastes alright but happens to be particularly filling and – aha! – good for you. It can get your through a long morning without crashing from hunger, takes a very short time to make, and will get you points for fiber in your diet.

The editor and myself both enjoy a nice bowl of oatmeal in the morning; she likes the traditional rolled oats, which take a few minutes to cook on the stove. Some milk, brown sugar, and golden raisins are good.

For myself, well, there has to be a lot more sugar than that. Also, the oats are the quick kind, because I like the texture of them uncooked. I pour the oats in a bowl, fill with milk, and microwave about a minute – enough to warm the milk without cooking the oats into mush. Then, I add in either copious amounts of any number of things: jelly, frozen fruit, yogurt every once in a while. Lately, though, the most common has been mini chocolate chips and marshmallows (see right). Ah, the chips melt on top, and you can stir the marshmallows in (see previous post RE my feelings about marshmallows). As a child I used to love the S’mores flavor of Pop Tarts. This is pretty similar, just a tad more grown up and healthy.

Tasty.