We've been eating oatmeal, bought in 50 pound sacks, for five or more years now. I can't even remember now why we started doing this, but I'm pretty sure it had something to do with saving mass quantities of money.
THIS is a link to my pantry/bucket/bulk buying blog post.
THIS is a link to what my van looks like on shopping day. And
THIS is a link to making oatmeal tasty.
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Every once in awhile I'm inspired to make the oatmeal a different way. We often have dried cranberry-orange juice oatmeal or dried cranberry-vanilla yogurt oatmeal, but this morning I took a different route. The cookie route. Dried cranberry and white chocolate chips! Shhh! Don't tell the kids-they didn't get any! The secret with chocolate chips, white or dark, is to sprinkle them in and stir just enough to incorporate. If you over-stir, the chips melt and every bite tastes the same. If you let the chips melt in place, you are surprised by a sweet gooey bite of melted chocolate! YUM!
I forgot to mention in my
end-of-the-world post that I made Mayan oatmeal for breakfast: brown sugar, cocoa powder, cinnamon, and a pinch of cayenne pepper! Now that was some tasty porridge that had no leftovers!
