The Oatmeal Monster Strikes Again!

I love that I got Mal into eating oatmeal for breakfast. After listening to me rave about oats for months and months, he finally gave them a try, and he’s been hooked ever since! However, he’s quite the oatmeal monster! Look what I found this morning when I went to cook-up my morning batch of oats. (Luckily, we had another huge canister in the cupboard!)

Mal makes oatmeal like a guy. He just pours oats right from the canister into a big Tupperware container, which he takes to school and cooks there. No measuring, no fun add-ins, no nothing. Just oats in a Tupperware container to go. I, however, make oatmeal like a girl. I use a measuring cup each morning to portion-out 1/2 cup of dry oats. I add in all of my fun ingredients (fruit, nuts, etc.), cook in the microwave, pour into a nice, neat bowl, (take a million photos), and enjoy. Who would have guessed that the genders eat oatmeal so differently!?!

My oat bowl this morning was a wonderful mix of sweet, smooth, and chewy. Inside my bowl was raisins, dried cranberries, ground flaxseed meal, and honey…

… which was topped with vanilla yogurt “icing” and cranberry sauce.

A very holiday-esque bowl of oatmeal! 

Tayna from Iateapie.net (one of my favorite websites!) recently asked me to share my 5 Favorite Food Products of 2008 with her to feature on her site. (She is highlighting various food bloggers all December long.) This morning, Tayna featured my top 5 selections! I’m sure you guys can probably guess which products made my list, especially which product took place numero uno! Be sure to check it out!

What are your top 5 food products from 2008?