On Friday, March 19, 2021 at 8:34:06 AM UTC-10, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> 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

If it was cheaper, faster, and good, I would have been doing that very thing. It ain't.