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DIY Instant Oatmeal

I'm all about some comfort food for breakfast, however having the time to whip it up on a weekday usually escapes me. I've tried oatmeal in the crock pot but it never quite works for me and cleaning the pot after is nearly impossible. Thumbing through cook books yesterday I saw a recipe for instant oatmeal. For some reason it just never occurred to me that you could make your own instant oatmeal! I thought it was made in a factory by unicorns or something! I stopped buying it years ago because I couldn't justify the extra ingredients and loads of little wax coated bags, it just seemed like so much waste! There are many ingredients you could add such as nuts and dried fruit, but I'll just give the basic recipe and you can let your imagination run wild, or in my case I'll just hand over the creative bit to the unicorns.  

6 C organic oats
1/4-1/2C brown sugar
1 tablespoon cinnamon
1teaspoon salt

               Bake oats on a cookie sheet @ 375 degrees for 20 minutes, pull out and let cool.

 

Grind 4 cups of oats, sugar, cinnamon and salt in a food processor until smooth

                                                         
                                                           It will look a little like this

 

Mix the oats and oat mixture into a mason jar and whatever toppings you want and boom instant oatmeal!

Mix 1/2C instant oatmeal and 1.5 cups boiling water in a bowl cover for 5 minutes and you have Sunday morning breakfast any day of the week!