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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.

It started about 6 years ago when I found I had high cholesterol and the doctor suggested oatmeal for breakfast.  At the time I felt I would rather have the cholesterol…I was wrong.  My husband who I love more than myself insisted I follow the doctors instructions if not every morning than at least three times a week.  I figured I could do that for him and my family.  Oh!  the sacrifices we Mothers make for our families.

My husband who also grew up on oatmeal makes it for me every morning now and you know what it didn’t have to be is slimy, gooey, or taste bland.  He adds a small amount of brown sugar to the cooking water, sometimes honey, fresh fruit, raisins, sometimes nuts of different varieties and sometimes I think he might add the kitchen sink.

Oatmeal is one of natures best fighters for high cholesterol.

Think of the ways you can use Oatmeal in your daily recipes:  as a filler for meatloaf or meatballs, in your yogurt,  make your own nutri-bars with oatmeal, raisins, nuts, if you think of it you will be able to come up with a thousand ways to used oatmeal in your everyday life…and don’t forget those oatmeal raisin cookies!

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