Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs

[Groo the Wanderer]

[quote name='IcePrincessKRS' post='1290540' date='Jun 7 2007, 07:20 PM']You can't get them in South Korea. I'm kind of anti-cereal anyway, but we have it when Matt is around (I say that like he's usually not around. He is usually around, but its just that we were apart for so long the lingo still hovers about from time to time). I prefer eggs, oatmeal, and pancakes. I guess I'm a little old fashioned in that regard. [/quote]


Eww. Get the kids something healthy:

Eggs, toast with butter, bacon, coagulated milk, and salsa. YUM!



or try that Kashi Go Lean Crunch stuff...yumo even with *blech* soy milk

[IcePrincessKRS]

Oh, we don't eat cereal every day! In fact, we only have it in the house when we're able to live together (military family, sometimes living together just isn't possible), when he's away its all eggs, bacon/sausage, toast, or pancakes, or oatmeal. Most days eggs, oatmeal takes more prep (I prepare mine differently than most people, I soak it overnight) and I don't think to do it, and pancakes aren't every day fare for similar reasons. We've been here since May 11th and already gone through about 11 dozen eggs. I'm not kidding. 11 dozen. Sometimes I'll make eggs and Matt will have both eggs and cereal, which makes the girls want cereal, and when thats the case they have to eat their eggs before they get cereal.

[Pontifite 7 of 10]

[quote name='IcePrincessKRS' post='1290533' date='Jun 7 2007, 07:12 PM']Frosted Mini-Wheats[/quote]
I LOVE THAT STUFF! It tastes much better than Coco Puffs!

[homeschoolmom]

[quote name='IcePrincessKRS' post='1290701' date='Jun 8 2007, 12:30 AM']Most days eggs, oatmeal takes more prep (I prepare mine differently than most people, I soak it overnight)[/quote]

HStot likes instant oatmeal... however, he has his own unique way of eating it. He likes it poured in the bowl with milk (or water) poured over it. NO COOKING. Just the oatmeal floating in the milk... bleh.. he loves it. He would eat three packages at a sitting if I let him. Bleh...

[Sirklawd]

I Ont cocoa bombs too!

[MissScripture]

[quote name='homeschoolmom' post='1290776' date='Jun 8 2007, 07:56 AM']HStot likes instant oatmeal... however, he has his own unique way of eating it. He likes it poured in the bowl with milk (or water) poured over it. NO COOKING. Just the oatmeal floating in the milk... bleh.. he loves it. He would eat three packages at a sitting if I let him. Bleh...[/quote]
Eww! I won't even eat oatmeal the regular way...but I love it in cookies!!
Oatmeal always makes me think of once when I was babysitting. One of the little girls wanted oatmeal, and she went to grab the container (it was Quick Oats or whatever they're called, in the canisters) and acidentally dumped it all over her head. It was REALLY hard not to start giggling at the shocked look on her face.

[IcePrincessKRS]

[quote name='homeschoolmom' post='1290776' date='Jun 8 2007, 08:56 AM']HStot likes instant oatmeal... however, he has his own unique way of eating it. He likes it poured in the bowl with milk (or water) poured over it. NO COOKING. Just the oatmeal floating in the milk... bleh.. he loves it. He would eat three packages at a sitting if I let him. Bleh...[/quote]

My older sister used to eat it like that, or she'd put warm water on it but not cook it. I could never bring myself to do it (we went through a bog Irish/Scottish phase in our teens... ironically she married an Irishman. Literally from Ireland. His family still lives there), though I did make it "thick enough to stop a bullet" (if anyone remembers that reference I'll give you a quarter lol) and eat it that way.

Here is the recipe for how I make it:

1 cup oats, rolled, cracked, or old fashioned, but NOT quick cooking.
1 cup warm water
2 Tbs. yogurt (plain), buttermilk, kefir (its a cultured milk product that probably no one else here knows what it is...), or whey (you know, the runny liquid that gathers on the top of your yogurt... I make cream coagulated milk and save the whey for this purpose)
1/2 tsp salt (preferably sea salt)

Mix oats, water, and your choice of yogurt, buttermilk, kefir, or whey. Cover and leave in a warm place for at least 7 hours or as long as 24 hours. when soaking is complete bring an additional 1 cup of water to a boil with the salt. Add soaked oats, reduce heat and simmer several minutes. Serve as usual. (We usually top it with a titch of butter, brown sugar, and milk.) (For those health-conscious that use a lot of whole grains like kamut or spelt, you can replace the oats with either of those grains.)

It probably sounds a little weird, but its really tasty. I like oatmeal anyway, but that just makes it even better.

[IcePrincessKRS]

To make your own cream coagulated milk (even if you don't save the whey, its really good, my girls like to eat it with Wheat Thins) the easiest way to do it is to use plain yogurt (you can use buttermilk but there are other steps you have to take... this is just easiest). Use full fat, or at least low fat; fat free yogurt makes crummy cream coagulated milk (I found that out the hard way, its hard to find full fat yogurt here so I tried fat free... I made a dip/spread out of it because I couldn't stand it plain, it was too dry).

The recipe calls for 2 quarts of yogurt, but I never that much. I think the most I've made all at once was 2 of the individual serving sized containers (6-8oz?). Take a clean white dish towel (preferably NOT terrycloth) and spread it over the top of a bowl; plop in your yogurt. Carefully (don't squeeze) gather up the ends of the towel and tie them with a string or rubber band. This is the tricky part: suspend the towel of yogurt over the bowl--I have hooks in my kitchen under the shelves that I use, I just stick it on the hook and put the bowl underneath. If you don't have something like that then you can attach it to a wooden spoon and suspend it across the top of a pitcher (so the pouch hangs down inside the pitcher). You let that hang and drip for several hours (I usually put it up before bed and by morning its ready) until it stops dripping whey. When the dripping stops you take it down, store the cream coagulated milk from the towel in a storage container in the fridge (it should keep for about a month) and the whey in a glass jar (it should keep about 6 months in the fridge). Its a little more tart than store bought cream coagulated milk, but its really good and tastes even better after a couple days. Use good quality yogurt, too, like Stonyfield Farms, something with the fewest possible additives for the best quality and best tasting cream coagulated milk.

[franciscanheart]

I love these. Printing and trying! Thanks, Icey.


Oh.. pass the GapeNuts please...

[kateri05]

oooh i really wanna try that! yogurt is so much cheaper than creamcheez!