[Melody]

Originally Posted by Penny

I don't remember ever seeing Irish oatmeal. I will look at Trader Joe's, sometimes they have things like that.

Steel cut oats, in addition to being called Irish Oatmeal, is also known as Pin Head Oats. Just an FYI.

We have a nice slow cooker where we will have oats cooking over days. It's great.

Mel

[grace girl]

Now you've got me started! I LOVE oatmeal, but I rarely eat it because I have these strange kids who don't like it! They're just going to have to suck it up tomorrow!

[HelenM]

I have porridge for breakfast most mornings and at the moment have very good control with few spikes. (A1C result yesterday 5.0% )
I had it before diagnosis and when I was in hospital the dietician thoroughly approved and asked my husband to bring in the packet of oats as it was a better breakfast than the hospital could provide . The ward staff thought I really was a mad English woman to want such a strange thing for breakfast.
I do confess to flavouring it with canderel cankao. ( a slightly sweetened low carb cocoa powder). The dieticians preferred option was unsweetened fruit compot.

[Penny]

Originally Posted by grace girl

Now you've got me started! I LOVE oatmeal, but I rarely eat it because I have these strange kids who don't like it! They're just going to have to suck it up tomorrow!

Granddaughter Emily loved oatmeal until she got old enough to listen to friends instead of wise old Mamaw. So last night I had her read this thread, explained that we would be trying an experiment, and have oatmeal every morning for a month. I thought there would be a big argument, but she seemed to be very interested and willing to try. I told her she could add things, like fruit or even chocolate syrup. I intend to remind my older kids, that having oatmeal every morning when they were kids, might be the reason they are all so healthy.

[mg_2204]

My previous job I had to work like a horse. Oatmeal (porridge!) was always the kind of breakfast I went for. Unsweetened of course. I hate Splenda and the likes. It helps lower cholesterol too. 1/2 a cup is very filling and Bg never went up the curtains because I burned it all quickly. Often I had to have a mid-morning snack too. Anything you eat I think... you must think of the level of physical activity you're going to experience afterwards.

[Scratch]

If I have breakfast, I love oatmeal made with milk and blueberries.

[Injecto]

MMmmmmm, I love hot oatmeal on a cold winter morning. That with a coffee. Yeah, it's got lots of carbs, but like others have said, it keeps the cholesterol down and have no trouble with spikes...yet.

[Geoff]

I eat porridge (Jorden’s rolled oats) every morning, summer and winter. 40grms rolled oats, I add cinnamon for flavour instead of sugar products, 20grm of raisins, 20grms of blueberries, and half a washed canned peach cooked slowly. This comes to about 55grms of carbs, and keeps me going for the next four to five hours. I have never had a spike, and after two hrs my bs is under 6mmol/lt.

[poodlebone]

I LOVE oatmeal! Instant oatmeal, quick cooking, slow cooked, steel cut - it's all good! I prefer old fashioned rolled oats that you have to cook or steel cut. Steel cut is my first choice. I don't own a slow cooker so I do the overnight soak method. Boil 4 cups of water, add 1 cup of steel cut oats, cover the pot and turn off the heat. Let it sit out on the stove overnight. In the morning you just have to heat it up for a few minutes until all of the water is absorbed and it's heated through. I make 4 servings at a time and store them in individual containers in the fridge. In the morning I just have to reheat in the microwave for a minute.

I like berries in my oatmeal. Fresh when they're in season and frozen when they're not. I also add some unsweetened Vanilla Almond Breeze milk. 40 calories per cup, 2g of carbs! It is unsweetened so it's not good for drinking straight or even for cold cereal. But for mixing in hot cereal, hot cocoa, tea etc that has other sweeteners it's fine. It adds a nice vanilla flavor and some creaminess to the oatmeal for practically no calories & carbs. I think it's got 3g of fat per cup. They also make unsweetened chocolate, as well as sweetened chocolate & vanilla.

I have not had any problems with oatmeal and I use the carb counts on the package. Lately I've been running late in the morning and eating breakfast at work. I have a container of a 4 grain hot cereal - rolled oats, rye, barley & wheat. The texture is coarser than plain oats but I really like it. I can even have a small amount of banana (2 - 2.5 oz) in it instead of berries without spiking.

Some nights when I get home late and don't want to cook I have oatmeal. I've had it for lunch as well. I also like farina, grits and every other kind of hot cereal.

[panmat1]

Aren't cheerios a very high glycemic food? Wouldn't that cause spikes? Nancy

[shanda]

My dietician recommends Oatmeal and I have no problem with it causing any spikes, and I love the taste. The instant Oatmeal may cause more bg spikes because it's processed. I was advised to use the large flake Oatmeal, the kind you cook as opposed to instant. It only takes a few minutes and it's well worth it in my opinion. It's also known to help lower cholesterol levels. It's high in fiber and really sticks with you on a chilly morning. It also reminds me of my childhood; Oatmeal the way Mom used to make it

[poodlebone]

The stuff in packets is loaded with sugar. I always buy plain, of whatever kind I get, and add my own sweetener, cinnamon and any fruit/nuts I have on hand. The packets can be so sweet that all I taste is sugar.

[Larry H.]

I love the steel cut oat meal although I don't make it real often since it does require longer cooking. I have made it up in batches ahead so as to avoid long cooking times. I use an old waterless cooker or steamer sometimes for those. But I think you can also make it by cooking it like 5 minutes then leaving it to sit for 20 more minutes covered?
I have a box here of Arrowhead Mills it says:

Total Carbs 27 g.
Dietary Fiber 8 g. (33%)
0 sugar
6 protein

Would sure seem like the fiber would be good for you and you can subtract alot of that from the total carbs I believe. I haven't tried it as yet since I began my new eating habits. The carbs are in line with what ADA recommends and the fiber is a plus. If you have never eaten it, it has a very distinctive sort of nutty, crunchy effect. If its cooked really slow and long it gets very soft, both ways its good though.
Somewhere I have my Grandmothers German Recipe for what they called something like Gata, its a steel cut oats and ground pork mixture that you cook and then make into a flat pan covered with a light lard kind of covering, they fried it and served it with syrup over it. Was really good but awful for you if your worried about the colesterol levels too.

[parrotletzoo]

oatmeal is never a good choice because its nasty. bleh

[BobbyT]

I really miss having oatmeal but even a small amount raises my levels more than I like.