My kids like oatmeal in the morning, but it seems a little boring to me. Usually I make it with honey and cinnamon. What sorts of things do y'all add to oatmeal?

I cheat. I buy a huge box of the Quaker Oatmeal (microwavable kind) from Sam's. It is all flavored-cinnamon roll, apples and cinnamon, banana bread, etc. But you do get some plain packets. I never know what to do with those. Sometimes I split one plain between the kids older kids to add to whatever flavor they are having.
When I was a kid, I liked oatmeal (NOT microwavable, the kind you cook on the stove) and all we ever added to ours was sugar, butter and milk. MMMMMMMMM
I would think that you could add in honey, jelly, peanut butter. Cant think of anything else.

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I like it with honey and ground pecans. It gives it a nice texture.

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~Jodi~

Any fresh fruit I have on hand, apples, peaches, ect. I always add ground flax seeds and cinnamon. It's yummy w/ maple syrup or with brown sugar. I love rasins, granola or nuts on top.

we even bought some strawberry extract to 'fake' the strawberries & cream' kind

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you can about a tsp of any kind of jam you have.

cinn/sugar
honey and pecans are a good combo
chunk of mashed up ripe banana with a tsp or so of Peanut butter
cinn and applesauce
a sprinkle of mini choc chips
granola
brown sugar

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My daughter had the Quaker instant with a crunchy topping package at her grandmothers and LOVED it, problem is, instant oatmeal is already expensive and that stuff only comes 6 packs to a box!

Fast forward to me getting several boxes of Kashi Go Lean Crunch for .50¢ each, only to find no one really likes it as cereal. Tossed some on my daughters oatmeal one morning, and we had a hit! She eats it on yogurt as well.

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We have added any combo of the following:

Frozen blueberries (they warm up from the oatmeal and also cool the oatmeal down)
vanilla
cinammon
brown sugar
applesauce

dried michigan cherries & brown sugar.

They have oatmeal that has dinosaur eggs in it. When the eggs get wet in the milk, they "hatch" into baby dinosaurs. DS loves it, so to save $, I sometimes get dinosaur sprinkles - the kind you put on cupcakes in the little bottles, and put them in. No difference to him!

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