# Oatmeal and lowering your cholesterol **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 26, 2007, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oatmeal-and-lowering-your-cholesterol/401778 "2007-04-26T20:30:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2007, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oatmeal-and-lowering-your-cholesterol/401778/21 "2007-04-27T00:13:58Z")
I’m currently doing the instant Banana Bread flavor. It’s pretty good, but it’s still fucking oatmeal. It’s the texture that kills me more than anything. ---
**Author:** ![zweisamkeit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zweisamkeit/32/4360_2.png) [@zweisamkeit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zweisamkeit)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2007, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oatmeal-and-lowering-your-cholesterol/401778/22 "2007-04-27T00:25:18Z")
[QUOTE=Kalhoun] I’m currently doing the instant Banana Bread flavor. It’s pretty good, but it’s still fucking oatmeal. It’s the texture that kills me more than anything. [/QUOTE] Ew, stop getting the packet crap. That’s why you have the gluey texture. Get a cylinder of regular rolled oats. 3/4 cup with 3/4 cup of milk/soymilk/water (or whatever mix of those you want) along with a tiny bit of salt, some sweetener and spices or dried fruit. Microwave that for about 3 minutes. You still actual texture but the oats are cooked and still easy to eat. This is much yummier than the glue-in-a-packet. ---
**Author:** ![Caridwen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c89c15/32.png) [@Caridwen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caridwen)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2007, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oatmeal-and-lowering-your-cholesterol/401778/23 "2007-04-27T00:29:38Z")
[QUOTE=Kalhoun] I’m currently doing the instant Banana Bread flavor. It’s pretty good, but it’s still fucking oatmeal. It’s the texture that kills me more than anything. [/QUOTE] Can you turn it into cookies? ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2007, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oatmeal-and-lowering-your-cholesterol/401778/24 "2007-04-27T00:43:15Z")
My cholesterol levels are ridiculously good given the rest of my diet and exercise plan. I eat oatmeal or Cheerios for breakfast each morn. ---
**Author:** ![dangermom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@dangermom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dangermom)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2007, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oatmeal-and-lowering-your-cholesterol/401778/25 "2007-04-27T00:46:46Z")
[QUOTE=GingerOfTheNorth] I eat plain oatmeal (store brand rolled oats) with about a teaspoon of brown sugar and maybe a tablespoon of milk to cut the gluey texture. I already have awesomely good cholesterol levels (and my ‘good’ cholesterol level is very very high), but eating this is very low calorie (two points per serving) and keeps me filled up until afternoon. It takes only 1.5 minutes in the microwave, too. [/QUOTE] Ooh, when I was a teenager, I would do that, only with butter instead of milk. Possibly that would negate the whole low-calorie/cholesterol thing, but it’s sure yummy. ---
**Author:** ![Satchmo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/satchmo/32/4223_2.png) [@Satchmo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satchmo)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2007, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oatmeal-and-lowering-your-cholesterol/401778/26 "2007-04-27T00:52:08Z")
I’ve also heard lentils are better for lowering cholesterol than oatmeal. So if you really don’t want to eat oatmeal, have a nice lentil pilaf 2 or 3 times a week. Maybe instead of rice? ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2007, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oatmeal-and-lowering-your-cholesterol/401778/27 "2007-04-27T01:31:40Z")
[QUOTE=Hal Briston] Well wait a moment then…where would one get these magic pills of which you speak? [/QUOTE] You could always try Miracle Max. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Stuffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f17d59/32.png) [@Stuffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stuffy)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2007, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oatmeal-and-lowering-your-cholesterol/401778/28 "2007-04-27T01:33:42Z")
[QUOTE=Caridwen] Can you turn it into cookies? [/QUOTE] Are we related? ---
**Author:** ![Montgomery0](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/0ea827/32.png) [@Montgomery0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Montgomery0)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2007, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oatmeal-and-lowering-your-cholesterol/401778/29 "2007-04-27T02:37:32Z")
[QUOTE=Kalhoun] I’m currently doing the instant Banana Bread flavor. It’s pretty good, but it’s still fucking oatmeal. It’s the texture that kills me more than anything. [/QUOTE] I eat oatmeal every day, the old fashioned stuff, not that one minute crap. What I do is pre soak the oats in the fridge. I’ll dish out a spoon or two, pour in extra water and microwave it for 2 minutes (make sure your bowl is big enough to contain the boiling oats.) It’s not over cooked and if you like it firmer, you can cook it for less. No stirring so it’s not particularly gluey (you can always add extra water anyway.) I’ve also heard of people blending it down as some sort of shake (I’m assuming you would add flavoring and not just have oatmeal shake.) I’ve never tried it but I had thought of it before. Might be something to look into. ---
**Author:** ![toadbriar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bb73d2/32.png) [@toadbriar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toadbriar)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2007, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oatmeal-and-lowering-your-cholesterol/401778/30 "2007-04-27T05:17:15Z")
A fresh orange is way better than juice. Juice has all the sugar, but how much of the fiber? Fiber is really the good stuff for lowering cholesterol, and the fruit will fill you up more instead of just quenching thirst. Oatmeal’s pretty awesome with maple syrup and craisins. Vanilla sugar is a very fine thing too. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oatmeal-and-lowering-your-cholesterol/401778.md?page=1)