I know I’ve mentioned this in other threads, but I like my oatmeal savory, I like it with any one of the following: egg, crumbled veggie burger, onion, mushrooms, jalapenos, Laughing Cow Cheese, fat-free cream cheese. As a base I’ll boil a veggie cube with salt and pepper. Except for the veggie burger (70-80) calories, these ingredients only add about 30-40 calories and are fairly healthy (minus the sodium in the veggie cube and the veggie burger, I guess.) I usually add garlic, smoked paprika and Frank’s Red Hot Sauce, too. Sometimes I’ll do an oatmeal curry.
This is the key: use steel-cut oats instead of rolled oats to start out with. I just add brown sugar, but anything will taste better with them.
Soy sauce and furikake.
Frozen blueberries, milk, butter, sweetener, and cinnamon. I keep a large bag of frozen blueberries as a staple, and I add about a quarter cup of them to just about any cereal, hot or cold. When I add the milk on top of the cereal and berries, they defrost enough to be quite edible. They’re especially good on Cheerios, or the knockoff Cheerios, but they’re great on corn flakes, too.
Blueberries also are good for fulfilling the blue/purple requirement if you try to eat your rainbow every day. I always find that slot the hardest one to fill, if I don’t have my blueberries.
Jams and jellies are good. If I’m going fruity, like peach or blackberry, I toss in just a touch of cream. Way better and a way wider variety of flavors than those pre-flavored microwave packets. But my favorite is pepper jelly. Sweet, tart, just a touch spicy…mmmmm. Either way I like to add in some chopped nuts (ideally toasted) for texture and flavor.
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Blueberries also are good for fulfilling the blue/purple requirement if you try to eat your rainbow every day. I always find that slot the hardest one to fill, if I don’t have my blueberries.
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I usually just eat a handful of Skittles.
Same, except with Optimum Nutrition. Their Rocky Road flavor mixes well and tastes very nice with hot oatmeal.
I’ve found this list of things to add in a blog post by doing a search when I was trying to do the same thing. I’ve now tried most of the things on the list which generally includes nuts, dried and fresh fruit, different kinds of milks, protein powder, nut butters, apple butters, jam and jellies, yogurts, cereals and more. It’s a pretty good list, but it doesn’t include the more savory stuff.
Thanks Hazle Weatherfield, I’m going to try some of your savory suggestions.
Sorry for the double post.
Between my last post and now, I tried some oatmeal with soy sauce and dry roasted seaweed based on The Hamster King’s suggestion. To my amazement, it’s good!
I don’t like salt in my oatmeal, but this was a different taste. If you’ve never tried it, it’s worth a try.
Not all at the same time but here are some things I add:
Chopped crystallized ginger, raisins (golden if I have em) or any dried fruit, slivered almonds, minced apples with cinnamon, chopped pecans, real maple syrup.
I’ve tried some tropical fruits - dried pineapple and mangoes and did not care for that at all, but I think that’s a matter of my own taste.
It’s basically toasted sesame seeds with some salt ground together, and you sprinkle it over your porridge with a little butter and it is EEEEELICIOUS.
Creamy peanut butter and raisins.
It’s oatbran, not meal. Healthier, nuttier, and less mushy. The usual spices vanilla, cinnamon, chopped pecans, sometimes banana and my secret ingredient is a dash of allspice. I also like warm almond milk in it. I don’t often sweeten it, but when I do, it’s usually with stevia, but sometimes I just do real maple syrup and a little butter.
My problem with oatmeal was that it was too damned hot to eat immediately after microwaving, and I’d have to blow on every spoonful beforehand or scorch my mouth.
I solved this problem with frozen blueberries which adds healthy flavor and cools down the oatmeal at the same time. Ever since trying this a few years ago, oatmeal is my breakfast at least 90% of the time, and I make sure to always have frozen blueberries on hand.
For texture and fiber, I often add a handful of All Bran cereal or granola. Crunchy, yum!
I add raisins and blackstrap molasses. If you have not tried this just add a teeny bit of molasses on a big spoonful of oatmeal to see if you like the taste, which can be quite overpowering if you are not used to it