Rolled oats from the bulk bins at Whole Foods. These were marked "thick" rolled, but frankly, I cannot see any difference between these and regular rolled oats.
You know, they do a lot of things to oats to make them cook faster. Oat groats, the best of all, take a long time to cook so they're smashed with rollers to flatten them, they're steamed to give them a head start in cooking, they're cut into tiny bits. They do all three things, smash, steam, cut, to make instant oatmeal, by then there is little of the salubrious health benefits left to the abused exhausted grain. Plus they're marketed in tiny bags that contain about 1/4 cup along with some kind of dehydrated goodie, and who can get by on that? Nobody! Instant oatmeal is a pathetic and a cruel hoax perpetrated upon a weary and unsuspecting misinformed public. You can do much better.
A touch of salt because all grains needs salt or it's just *putewey* gross without it, cinnamon, brown sugar. A mixture like this can be combined in advance for convenience. Then as you go, scoop out 1/2 a cup oatmeal premixed to your own preference then cook stovetop or microwave in double the water for under five minutes. This is 3/4 cup oatmeal with 1 +1/2 cup water.
The odd yellow thing that looks like a squared off banana is a wedge of fresh pineapple that was frozen.
I guess I went a little overboard. All this fruit couldn't fit in the bowl so the surplus will get munched separately.
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