On Fri, 19 Mar 2021 11:34:03 -0700 (PDT), 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

Ha!

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