I Love Oatmeal!

I have oatmeal for breakfast a minimum of 5 out of every 7 days of the week. Once in a while I'll make scrambled tofu, and every Sunday I have a vegan burrito. But every other day I grab my trusty old 4-Cup Pyrex measuring cup, dump a few raisins in the bottom, add a cup of filtered water and a half cup of old-fashioned oats, nuke for 2 minutes, then add either fruit or a spoon of peanut butter and cocoa powder, mix well, and yum, yum eat. This meal holds me until around 2pm most days, and that's pretty amazing for someone with hypoglycemia!

I like to mix it up with all different fruits, but now and then I just have a yen for something, well, different. The first cool day after a long summer usually finds me opening a can of pureed pumpkin, and for the next week or so, or until I get so sick of it I dump the rest of the can in the garbage, I have pumpkin flavored oats. Well, Quaker has done me one better. I found out on this and other blog posts that Quaker and Walmart are having a promotion of limited time only flavors of instant oatmeal, pumpkin spice and roasted pecan. I'm usually not a fan of instant oatmeal because of the sugar, and even if I had 4 packets of instant the meal doesn't hold me more than an hour because of that, but I couldn't pass up buying these yesterday at the tiny Walmart in Harrison, NJ. (I call it "tiny" because it's about a quarter the size of the Walmarts I used to go to when we lived in Kissimmee, Florida. God, I miss that place and can't wait to move back when hubby retires!) It's always jammed, filthy, aisles are over-crowded and the lines take forever to get through, but it's the only Walmart I've got so I'm stuck. It was worth the 15 minute wait on line to pay for my 4 boxes of oatmeal. Today was burrito day, but tomorrow morning I'll be diving into my first bowl of Quaker Pumpkin Spice Walmart-only oatmeal, and it better be good!