The great thing about oatmeal is you can change the taste easily. Savory, sweet, spiced, aromatic, creamy, chewy, whatever you want.

My go-to is oatmeal with milk and pepper, but some days I want some aged cheddar, or smoked cheddar (mmmm!). Frozen wild blueberries/wineberries for a winter treat. Tumeric, ginger, cinnamon and honey if I'm getting sick. A fried egg and hot sauce if it's a lazy sunday.

Savoury oatmeal might be my wife's top-rated thing that I brought to the relationship.

Indians are great at this kind of thing. They don't really eat sweet dishes like we do. Upma is usually a wheat porridge but can be made with oats.

What a bunch of fucking heathen.

Actually heathens were pagans living on heaths (uncultivated wild lands). To add spices and exotic ingredients you need to be rich, civilized, modern. Fancy oatmeal is bougie af

Bah. I love putting a layer of frozen blueberries at the bottom of the bowl then layering on piping hot steel cut oats to thaw and warm them up. You’re probably right that I shouldn’t add dried cranberries and a tiny drizzle of maple syrup on top (occasionally with thinly sliced bananas) but I’m happy enough to be wrong about it. I also skip the milk.

You're missing out on up to two or three extra months of life by enjoying yourself now! I hope you think about that when you're too old to think about things!

He's really risking his life with all those frivolous oatmeal add-ons.

If you are taking out the sugar you might as well go all the way and take out the milk.

It’s so funny you’re being downvoted, i think it’s just an expression of how much people hate oatmeal and like milk, lol. And also you can pry my milk from my cold dead hands.

Full fat milk is probably better because a) it will taste better and b) the fat will slow the energy release.

That's what I do, my son often comments that I eat gruel for breakfast.

What a lot of people don't realise is that the creamy texture comes from the oats rather than the milk.

Milk? Why the exception for that?

Milk is the perfect complement to oatmeal and accentuates the deliciousness without overwhelming it in a crass taste overload so typical of Americans.

Civility

Oatmeal and water

*horses

Savory oatmeal is the way to go.

It is a shame that most people's associations with oatmeal is either "bland" or "I've added in so much sugar that I may as well ignore the benefits of oats entirely".

Why no fruits? I eat oatmeal with milk, an apple and some flaxseed each morning. I don't care about the taste but I add the apple because of vitamins. An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

Refined sugar might offset the health benefits.

But it's your bowl of oatmeal, do what you want with it. Otherwise, what was that whole punk thing for, really?