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The underrated benefits of always having oatmeal at lunch
- volemo 7mo agoI eat oatmeal for breakfast every day. Can’t imagine skipping it though.
- nozzlegear 7mo agoI do the same, I think I've had it for breakfast almost every day for the last year. My wife can't stand having the same thing more than a few times in a row (not sure how common this is), but I don't mind it at all.
- zoklet-enjoyer 7mo agoJust a few hours ago while celebrating Easter, I had a discussion about oatmeal with my girlfriend's husband's dad about all the ways oatmeal can be enjoyed. My favorite way to make it is let the oatmeal sit overnight in vanilla soy milk, then mix in peanut butter, coffee, and cocoa powder or chocolate protein powder, and microwave. It's so good. I eat that at work maybe two or 3 times a week.
- Morromist 7mo agoI do roughly the same thing -Just oats with nuts and berries, no coffee or powder- but I haven't landed on what kind of oats to use yet for soaked oats. There are a ton of different kinds out there.
- zoklet-enjoyer 7mo agoI usually just get the quick oats. I dunno the difference between em all. Texture doesn't really matter to me. Sometimes I like to put a banana in there or some blueberries.
- mft_ 7mo agoQuick oats are typically just rolled/cut to be smaller, so that they have a higher total surface area and so soak up liquid more easily. The downside is that this also makes them easier/faster to digest, so they have a higher glycaemic index (i.e. deliver a higher blood sugar spike) and give a shorter period of satiety. Rolled oats are the uncut variety, which don't cook quickly for convenient porridge, but are great to soak as overnight oats. You can also get some which are basically in the middle - cut a bit so good for reasonably quick porridge (~5-7 minutes) but a bit more filling.
- Blackthorn 7mo ago"old fashioned" rolled oats are the standard afaict and I always cook them in 5 minutes
- mft_ 7mo agoInteresting. Unless we have different standards for what constitutes a cooked oat, maybe we're talking about slightly different things? The full-size rolled oats (sometimes called 'robust') here in Germany are nowhere close to soft (and are still distinctly floating in the milk) after simmering for 20+ minutes. The alternative is also described as rolled oats (sometimes called 'tender') but are visually smaller; that's what cooks in 5-6 minutes.
- Blackthorn 7mo agoThis must be different, the "old fashioned rolled oats" sold in America would be more than done after 20 minutes of simmering. Going by Bob's Red Mill, which is an excellent brand, we've got: * Old Fashioned rolled oats, 10 minutes: https://www.bobsredmill.com/product/regular-rolled-oats https://www.bobsredmill.com/product/regular-rolled-oats [the store brand I always see, on the other hand, is 5 minutes] * Steel cut oats, 15-20 minutes (this is a lie, it takes longer than 20 minutes for them to get sufficiently soft in my experience, for any steel cut oat brand): https://www.bobsredmill.com/product/steel-cut-oats https://www.bobsredmill.com/product/steel-cut-oats * Quick cooking rolled oats, 3 minutes (in my experience this is consistent across all store brands, down to 2 minutes): https://www.bobsredmill.com/product/organic-quick-cooking-rolled-oats https://www.bobsredmill.com/product/organic-quick-cooking-ro... They also have a second species of oats that are significantly higher in protein, and they take 15+ minutes to cook in "rolled oat" form, which from personal experience is accurate: https://www.bobsredmill.com/product/protein-oats https://www.bobsredmill.com/product/protein-oats
- nozzlegear 7mo ago> with my girlfriend's husband's dad With your what now?
- jihadjihad 7mo agoI can’t figure out which is worse, a girlfriend’s husband’s dad, or a husband’s girlfriend’s dad.
- zoklet-enjoyer 7mo agoMy girlfriend is married but they been split up for like 10+ years, just never got divorced. We're all friends and it's all good.
- 867-5309 7mo agothat was an unexpected Occam!
- frakkingcylons 7mo agoI appreciate the world building in this oatmeal comment
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- ThrowawayP 7mo agoAll the accompaniments suggested are sweet so I'll say something I've said before: oatmeal works fine with savory accompaniments. If it's made at the normal porridge-like thickness, any toppings or add-ins that work with Asian rice porridge recipes (congee, dakjuk, etc.) will work with it. If it's made with a very thick consistency, it can be treated similarly to mashed potatoes or polenta
- Exoristos 7mo agoGreat point! Also, steel-cut oats can replace grits in dishes such as grits and eggs. An improvement health-wise obviously, but arguably also taste-wise.
- OutOfHere 7mo agoCumin powder goes well in oatmeal as a savory addition.
- bythreads 7mo agoWhy are you all heating it?, eat it raw with milk unheated
- Ferret7446 7mo agoAs I recall, raw oats are not edible. All of the "raw" oats that you can buy are not actually raw, they are at least steamed.
- oidar 7mo agoOatmeal is for breakfast, lentils are for lunch. Here's a good lentil recipe: https://web.archive.org/web/20200309092143/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/voraciously/wp/2020/03/08/this-lentil-soup-is-so-good-one-nurse-has-eaten-it-for-lunch-every-workday-for-17-years/ https://web.archive.org/web/20200309092143/https://www.washi...
- AlexeyBelov 7mo agoWhy is oatmeal for breakfast specifically?
- umvi 7mo agoUnfortunately as a diabetic, oatmeal is one of the most difficult foods to control. I question how healthy it is given how high and how fast my blood sugar spikes after eating some. Oats are converted to glucose very quickly it seems, and that's without all the added sugar OP recommends. I won't dispute that it's delicious though.
- Exoristos 7mo agoSteel cut oats or groats solves this problem.
- OutOfHere 7mo agoUse thicker oats. Do not add sugar or any sweet milk. Also, if you sprinkle ceylon cinnamon and fenugreek powders, the impact will be less. For more effect, I used to microwave it in black tea instead of water. Heating and then cooling oatmeal should allow it to form some resistant starch of type RS3. This will spike glucose a little less, but it causes much more gas. Other effective hacks are gymnema, berberine, thiamine, and benfotiamine supplements, all of which help with glucose regulation. Acacia fiber powder in oatmeal could be a worthy hack too, but I have yet to try it.
- claylimo 7mo agoI used oatmeal with water and it has always spiked - every body is different. How much less did it spike when you used fenugreek ? What other blood sugar spike hack do you use? Others that I know of — frozen bread changes starch, or extra virgin oil and almond butter are high in oleic acid so with the right amount it won’t spike as much
- actionfromafar 7mo agoIt should look something like this. https://www.runningwithspoons.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/img_1102-1024x682.jpg https://www.runningwithspoons.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06... Or Quaker rolled oats, that's probably fine too.
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- bluefirebrand 7mo agoI recently started eating oatmeal a few times a week and really enjoy it. I was diagnosed as celiac last summer, so I had to give up a lot of my old breakfast foods like bagels and such. I'm lucky that I found a really good gluten free oatmeal that I can buy at Costco. It's really good and good for you! I'm happy about that. I haven't really lost any weight since my diagnosis, which is a shame. I figured that cutting out bread and pasta would be good, but it hasn't changed much. Too much rice I guess
- mft_ 7mo agoThere's also a subculture of savoury oats. All sorts of recipes involving adding veg, eggs, cheese, spices...
- vova_hn2 7mo agoOats are just carbs. > You can enrich it with bananas or goji berries for extra nutrients. "extra nutrients" are more carbs. > it’s healthy I don't think that a whole meal without a good protein source can be considered "healthy"
- John23832 7mo agoOats are soluble fiber, which the vast majority of people are deficient in.
- vova_hn2 7mo agoOkay, but it doesn't address the issue of having a whole meal with barely any protein.
- Blackthorn 7mo ago2 servings of rolled oats: 300 calories, 10g protein. Barely any?
- mikestew 7mo agoThat’s begging the question, you have to first establish the need for protein at every meal. And I’m not even going to begin to address that digression.
- vova_hn2 7mo agoThere is basically no downsides to eating too much protein and there are a lot of potential problems if you eat too little. Of course, you can carefully design other meals to be more protein-heavy, just because of your weird idea of a having an (almost)no-protein meal. But it is much easier to make it a habit to include at least one high protein food in every meal.
- gnabgib 7mo agoErr.. what? Kidney damage, inflammation, constipation, bloating, nutrient deficiency, potential heart problems, kidney stones. There's lots of downside of eating too much protein. https://www.health.com/too-much-protein-side-effects-11894852 https://www.health.com/too-much-protein-side-effects-1189485...
- jerlam 7mo agoReminds me of Norway's Matpakke, the "Most boring lunch in the world": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlNmeVK_zLg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlNmeVK_zLg
- gib444 7mo agoQuinoa base can be good too. With a bit of cinnamon/maple syrup/vanilla etc to take the edge off the bitterness (on top of rinsing well).
- OutOfHere 7mo agoOrganic soy milk powder by Now Foods is extremely underrated as a milk substitute. It goes very well with oats. Unlike milk, it practically doesn't expire, it doesn't have sugar, and you don't need to maintain a fresh supply.
- sergebakharev 7mo agoAdding a small amount of protein powder unlocks a whole slew of flavours too!
- imartin2k 7mo agoEating it daily for breakfast since around 2013.
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