Food Simple

A bowl of oatmeal


Okay, so that's pretty boring. Rolled oats. So good for you in a boring kind of way. Yawn. The Wikipedia search for Quaker Oats Company has a underlining disclaimer, "Not to be confused with Quakers" Unless you refer it as thee oatmeal. Actually, Quakers don't come to mind as much as I think about Wilford Brimley and how I would like to have a talk with him about diabetes.

These were plain rolled oats. Need fruit. I cut up one of my large fuji apples, saving skin, and cubed it up. Not having lemon on hand so I could prevent it from turning brown, I drizzled a little of the raspberry honey into it. Sort of like a fresh compote. Ta-da! Fruit to dress up boring oatmeal. With a splash of rice milk, real good. How's that Wilford?

Now get cooking. Soaked black beans the night before, cooked up easy in the morning. Long grain brown rice, done in 20 minutes. Add to that vegetables. Zucchini, garlic, bits of green onion and chopped red pepper from Fresno thank you. All cooked in about a teaspoon of olive oil in a cast iron pan. Dinner to go.

I brought some carrots and rice crackers for a later snack at work but didn't feel hungry yet. I had a cup of yerba mate tea and I think it squelched my appetite. I may be on to something here. I've read mate is good for bone formation. With my sponge bones I'm all for that.

Home, now hungry. Ate 10 little crackers (approximate serving) and 6 baby carrots. Then my sweet tooth struck about forty minutes later, dun,dun, dun!!!!! Break open the chocolate brownie cliff bar. Snipe off about half of it. Add to that a third of a sliced banana and a splash of rice milk. Happily temporarily satiated.