Oat Revolution

When I was smaller, my mother used to give me oatmeal EVERY SINGLE DAY! As a child, I hated oatmeal so getting up in the morning and seeing a bowl of that nasty crap on the table was definitely not the highlight of my day. One day I took it to the extreme, and I made myself throw up. Yes, I put my finger down my throat at a ripe age of 7. Sweet... eating disorder here I come ( do not sweat, I don't have an eating disorder).  Due to this, my mom finally got the message that I did not enjoy oatmeal and then she started to give me regular cereal like lucky charms.  Since then I have been very reluctant to go back to oatmeal but since my tastes have been changing so much I thought hey why not try it and see if I actually like oatmeal again (which I did). I bought the following:

Its amazing the ideas people come up with. The pouch is actually a measuring device for the water that you are supposed to put in to make a perfect bowl of oatmeal.  Well, I just want to give you a warning: Read ANY and ALL directions on the stupid pouch because you might avoid an accident like I had. I decided that I was too good to read the directions. I mean how hard can it be.. 1. Put water in pouch 2. Pour water in bowl.  So I went to the water bubbler, pressed the hot water setting into the pouch and well what do you know it, the pouch started to feel like molten lava. It was so hot!! I was stubborn because I was like no seriously this was a good idea, so I filled it to the line scolding my hands in the meantime. Then the pouch started to slowly disintegrate in my fingers and molten lava water got all over my hands. AWESOME. However, if I just took a couple of seconds to read the pouch I would have seen that it specifically calls out for you to put COLD water into the pouch and then heat up the oatmeal in a microwave. This accident was totally preventable.

Moral of the story... read directions and do not be an ass like I am!! Have a great Tuesday!