I have not always been a fan of oatmeal cereal.  I ate it maybe twice, three times a year.  My mother used to cook it for my siblings and myself for breakfast and I remember it was always gooey and slimy, that might have had something to do with the fact that I couldn’t get past the first spoonful.

Mom was a good cook, but she had these little quirks (I like to call them that), she felt if she ate food one way as a child then her children should eat it that way also. When I started having children I made a promise to them and myself that no slimy oatmeal would pass their lips or mine ever again.  I have kept that promise, but I do eat oatmeal cereal now.