Oatmeal

Well, i suppose this is a trivial question, but I'm half way through my two week full fluids and I'm gonna try some oatmeal.

I bought some old fashioned rolled oats,, organic... i know they need to cook a bit longer, but my GW's Scottish background will ensure they get cooked right.

My question is, what can i put on the oatmeal? In the past i used milk and , of course, lots of brown sugar, or maple sypur.

Now, I'll use 1 % milk and what?  I don't want to use splenda or anything with aspartame or sorbital... Any suggestion?

 

Hi there u can probably use unsweetened applesauce or get the sugar free syrup.  I hope this will help.

Tc

Anna

Ahah!  Sugar free syrup! Right.... I have some from when I was taking Optifast... I have some butterscotch... that should be good in oatmeal..

Thanks

 

Great post - my surgery is three (feeling like very long) weeks away and I was wondering the same.... I will remember this.   I just bought some cinnamon, that would be nice.

Lori Lee

It has Splenda to sweeten, ...just so you realize since your post asked for ideas without artificial sweeteners...

Not sure if youre a coffee drinker but i replaced sugar and milk with a glug of coffee in my oatmeal and really love it. Hope it works for you. 

Elaine

Hmmm. I WAS a coffee drin****il the operation... I'm not sure I want to go back.... certainly not to decaf..

 

But I'll keep it in mind... thanks

 

I just eat it with the milk now! I also used to use brown sugar but tastes very good plain!

I put some brown splenda sugar in it - give that "brown sugar" taste that I love. Then I add 1 dried (cut up) prune and 1/2 banana. ( But I am a bit further out - 7 months). But when I was 2 weeks out I would do the same but without the dried prune and I would mash the banana ( and take less of course)

I tired to cook it with milk but because I take cut oats... it would always boil over... So I use water.