Having learned a while back that my good cholesterol was looking bad, or my bad cholesterol was looking good, or whatever translates to "Here, take these statins," I have been pretty religiously eating oats. Sure, I'd been reading those little blurbs on the Cheerios box, but who believes that stuff. Kyla told me it really worked, though, so I gave up my longtime yogurt for breakfast and switched to oats. It seems to have done the job. I'm still on statins, but not as much as I would be otherwise.
Now that I am an oat afficiando, I wondered if anyone else has tried steel cut as opposed to the standard Quaker Oats route? Oprah seems to like steel cut oats, so how could you go wrong. On the other hand, she can afford them. And she must have someone to cook them for her, too, because they take about 20-30 minutes to cook as opposed to 5 with Quaker (or 1 minute if you can stand those 1 minute kind, which I draw the line at). Anyway, steel cut oats (or sometimes labeled Irish oatmeal) are pretty good! Dara can't stand to be in the same room as cooking oatmeal. Oh well, give it a try anyway. It's Cheerios for me most mornings, though, as I'm too lazy for much else.
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I have to say I, too, am a fan of the steel cut oatmeal over the regular kind (and am fortunate to have a loving father to cook them for me when I'm home). At school I'm lucky to be in the one dining hall that serves us oatmeal all winter long. I eat an awful lot of it much to my roommates' amazement. Too bad we just get the regular stuff, not steel cut (though they do promise me that it's organic...)
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