What should I add to my oatmeal?

[Smokescreen]

Getting sick and tired of eating plain oatmeal. I need some "oomph" added to it to actually make it worth eating. What should I add. I know some of you are going to say to add fruits. Sounds great! But I really don't want to add "extra" carbs to my oatmeal.

So what should I add to enhance it's flavor? Someone suggested to me to just add a few blueberries. That the few blueberries I add really won't jack up much of the carbs. And someone highly suggested I add a bit of honey. But isn't Honey a "high glycemic" carb?

Any suggestions?

 

[HollywoodSwole]

splenda and cinnamon

 

[Ingram]

Low carb, low glyc Oats... Try these, I usually have these when I'm getting ready for a show.

-Tbsp of Natural PB and a packet of Splenda.

-Splenda and Cinnamon w/ small apple. Low glycemic high fiber

or the grand daddy of them all...

-= Protein Pancakes =-

1 scoop protein powder (Vanilla)
1/2 cup oats
2/3 cup egg whites
1 tbsp brown sugar twin
1/2 tbsp cinnamon
-=BLEND=-
1 Chopped up apple (don't blend)

Heat on Med, flip once

- Try to undercook it, the inside should be wet.
- If it makes a big mess when you flip it, you done good.

Microwave

- You can also nuke this for 2 mins in a bowl, stirring once... it's not as good, but does the trick.

-Ingram

 

[redtopp06]

splenda and peanuttebutter

 

[Smokescreen]

Low carb, low glyc Oats... Try these, I usually have these when I'm getting ready for a show.

-Tbsp of Natural PB and a packet of Splenda.

-Splenda and Cinnamon w/ small apple. Low glycemic high fiber

or the grand daddy of them all...

-= Protein Pancakes =-

1 scoop protein powder (Vanilla)
1/2 cup oats
2/3 cup egg whites
1 tbsp brown sugar twin
1/2 tbsp cinnamon
-=BLEND=-
1 Chopped up apple (don't blend)

Heat on Med, flip once

- Try to undercook it, the inside should be wet.
- If it makes a big mess when you flip it, you done good.

Microwave

- You can also nuke this for 2 mins in a bowl, stirring once... it's not as good, but does the trick.

-Ingram

OH! I know about those pancakes! I make them from time to time. They rock! But I just got a little sick of them. Been eating it for such a long time. And lately, I just dont have the time to make them. I just want to grab a half cup of oatmeal, add water and nuke it and eat! But blah! So bland and plain. Need some oomph added. Going to try adding cinnamon and perhaps a handful of blueberries. What'cha think?

 

[musclemom]

My husband doesn't lift but I make his oats with a combination of dried cherries, dried blueberries, dried cranberries, raisins, chopped walnuts and chopped almonds (you don't need a lot, I make steel cut oats and use the overnight cooking method so the fruit gets rehydrated).

I used to eat my oatmeal (before I realized it wasn't on the gluten free list) with chopped white meat chicken and ground flaxseeds, I happen to prefer the stuff savory.

 

[Smokescreen]

My husband doesn't lift but I make his oats with a combination of dried cherries, dried blueberries, dried cranberries, raisins, chopped walnuts and chopped almonds (you don't need a lot, I make steel cut oats and use the overnight cooking method so the fruit gets rehydrated).

I used to eat my oatmeal (before I realized it wasn't on the gluten free list) with chopped white meat chicken and ground flaxseeds, I happen to prefer the stuff savory.

Crap. I'm about to sound really stupid here. But then again...stupid is not knowing something. Stupid is someone that repeats the same mistakes over and over again and never learns from his/her mistakes or from the mistakes of others! LOL

What is Gluten? And what happens to your husband when he eats foods with Gluten? Upset stomach?

 

[musclemom]

Crap. I'm about to sound really stupid here. But then again...stupid is not knowing something. Stupid is someone that repeats the same mistakes over and over again and never learns from his/her mistakes or from the mistakes of others! LOL

What is Gluten? And what happens to your husband when he eats foods with Gluten? Upset stomach?

There are no stupid questions:

1. It's not my husband who has problems with gluten, it's me.

2. Gluten is the protein found in certain grains (wheat, rye, barley, and oats to a small degree) that gives it a stretchy consistency. Gluten is why bread rises, and why cooked pasta has a "bounce" to it.

3. Gluten creates an inflammatory response in my digestive tract. The problems start at the stomach (I get heartburn if I accidentally eat something that has gluten in it, gravy thickened with flour, for example) and go ALL the way down. I have never been formally diagnosed but I have SOME form of gluten intolerant enteropathy, commonly known as celiac disease.

There is more than one type of gluten enteropathy, one version (I call it the skinny version) gives the person horrible diarrhea and they drop weight and have a hard time putting weight on, but it's correctable as long as they stick with a gluten free diet. I have the opposite problem. When I eat gluten (which I do my damndest to avoid) it causes so much inflammation in my gut that food stops transiting (it's called slow or low motility, different from constipation) and I have a horrible time losing weight. When I first got sick with this stuff I had the "skinny version" but I've never had a very good relationship with doctors, so it went undiagnosed. I didn't figure out what was going on for a long time, and then stumbled onto it purely by accident. I think the skinny version is like stage one and the fat version is just what happens if you don't get off gluten free foods soon enough.

Anyway, that's probably too much information for you, but I always try to inform people who ask because gluten intolerance is like some dirty secret in America (whereas it's tested for at birth in Europe). It's one of the last things to be suspected as the cause of digestive problems, and doctors hardly think to test for it. It's a tough diagnosis because you can't give the patient skin prick or blood tests like other foods (they actually have to biopsy your small intestine and even that's not 100%) since it's not a true allergy. But the worst part, IMO, is that being gluten intolerant and not following the diet increases your risk of colon cancer by more than 30%.

 

[Smokescreen]

How do I find out if I am Gluten intolerant? Gas? Bloated stomach? Diarrhea? Belching? What???

 

[musclemom]

How do I find out if I am Gluten intolerant? Gas? Bloated stomach? Diarrhea? Belching? What???

For me, keeping a food diary of what I ate, when I ate, and all health symptoms gave me the keys. I found out afterwards that a few family members have the problem, as well (neither side is very close).

Gas/bloating/belching can be from a lot of things, ranging from how much fiber you're getting (or not getting) to eating your food too fast (swallowing air while you eat) to food intolerances to food allergies.

Think of diarrhea is your body's way of saying "Oh Shit!" literally. Something has been introduced to the GI tract that makes it VERY unhappy and it wants that out of there ASAP. Stress can give you the runs, but again, if you see a pattern with regard to food then you start to tweak out the problem.

Why do you think you have this problem?