On Friday, March 19, 2021 at 2:07:41 PM UTC-4, dsi1 wrote:
> On Friday, March 19, 2021 at 7:55:54 AM UTC-10, Dave Smith wrote:
> > On 2021-03-19 1:07 p.m., jmcquown wrote:
> > > On 3/19/2021 12:27 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
> > >> On 2021-03-19 11:54 a.m., jmcquown wrote:
> >
> > >>> I'm not sure I've ever heard of "pre-sweetened" oatmeal. Is this one
> > >>> of Bruce's random ramblings about how much sugar Americans consume?
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> I had to check and make sure, but those packages of flavoured instant
> > >> oatmeal do have sugar. 8-10 grams per serving, depending on the
> > >> flavour. In the list of ingredients it is the third item.
> > >
> > > Thanks for looking that up. I've never bought any "flavoured instant
> > > oatmeal". It's Bruce again pushing his belief everyone in North America
> > > consumes massive amounts of sugar.
> > I had to look it up because I never buy that kind of stuff. I am North
> > American not US American, and I never buy any sweetened cereal, though I
> > will confess that years ago I occasionally enjoyed a bowl of Frosted
> > Flakes. I am disappointed to go through the cold cereal aisle and see
> > how many of them are sweetened.
> >
> > I never buy quick cooking oats because they taste like paste and the
> > instant stuff is even worse. It is large flake or steel ground for me.
> > >On the rare occasions I eat oatmeal
> > > I add a bit of brown sugar to it but not to the point it could really be
> > > called "sweet". I actually like the taste of oats.
> > >
> > I love the taste of oats.
> >
> > Horses love oats too. I used to love feeding it to my friends horses
> > because they got so excited over it.
> When I had a business, I'd eat that instant oatmeal stuff for breakfast. It was dirt cheap and fast and could be made in the office microwave. What it wasn't was good. I could live with that. Two out of three ain't bad.

Real oatmeal is cheaper, fast if you plan ahead, and can be made in the office
microwave. It's good.

Every afternoon my husband prepares a bowl with some oatmeal, raisins
and sugar in it, and a container with a measured amount of water. At midnight
he wakes up, prepares and eats the oatmeal, takes a Hydrocodone (which
upsets his stomach if it's empty), and goes back to bed.

Cindy Hamilton