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DuranOfForcena posted...

it's okay to add a bit of brown sugar to your oatmeal in order to make it taste better. that's not going to totally wreck your diet. i was adding brown sugar and butter to my oatmeal most days for a long while there, even well into when i was intermittent fasting and trying to eat healthier. eventually you get used to the base flavor and can start adding less and less, until you add none at all. i dropped the butter pretty quick, but tbh i still sometimes use brown sugar in my oatmeal. not all the time though.

and only using water is definitely going to make it not taste all that great. something like that almond milk will be pretty good. personally i like to use a 2:1 ratio of water to nonfat dairy milk. makes it somewhat creamy without adding too many calories.

blueberry cinnamon should be a pretty good flavor profile though. i've never used the vanilla, but that seems like a good idea. i also like to do banana nutmeg. and pumpkin spice. i like to buy the can of pure pumpkin puree, and mix spices into it following the directions on the can for making pumpkin pie filling, except for using only 1/4 of the brown sugar it calls for. it's tasty stuff.

good idea. i only used water because it's easy to put into my kettle and heat up easily. so basically laziness. but i will try almond milk next time. a little brown sugar might be worth trying. when i make oatmeal, i like to heat up the water separately, and then quickly mix it in with the other ingredients - just because i generally hate sogginess. this works well with the instant oatmeal packets, but maybe this isn't recommended for real oatmeal.

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