Friday 9 November 2007

Instant Oats - Frugal ideas

Jenn @ Frual Upstate had this idea on her blog for making your own instant oatmeal packets.
I know we used to consume a lot of these over winter and now I can make them failsafe as well so my son will be able to eat them! He loves his oats in winter!

Homemade Instant Oatmeal(Makes 8 Packets)
3 Cups Quick Cooking Oatmeal
Salt
Put 1 cup oatmeal in the blender or food processor and blend to a powder(you may want to do this 1/2 C at a time).
In each of 8 zipper style baggies 1/4 cup un-powdered oats, 2 tablespoons powdered oats, and 1/8 teaspoons salt.
To use: Empty packet into a bowl. Add 3/4 cup boiling water. Stir and let stand for2 minutes. For thicker oatmeal, use less water – for thinner oatmeal, use morewater.
You can adapt this recipe to many different flavors.
For brown sugar oatmeal add 1TBS packed brown sugar to each.
You can also add raisins, splenda, chopped dried apples, or even make a fruit and cream version by adding 1TBS powdered creamer and 2TBS dried fruit.
I am going to try a mix with some powered milk and brown sugar added to make it creamier - will let you know the outcome :)

4 comments:

The Tin House said...

Brilliant Lis, just brilliant.

Lib said...

Thanks for all the Yummy recipes you share.
Hope you're having a Great week.
Blessins',Lib

Karen said...

Hi, new to reading your site and really enjoying it. Great idea - will give this a go!

Lis said...

Thanks for all your support girls! Hope some of my overseas visitors can make use of this before I do! Can't see much porridge getting eaten at my place during summer :)