I’ve still been doing this thing; I’m trying to persevere. As I have done so there have been some days that I fell into a rut with something that I found bearable and other days that I summoned something Awful onto my breakfast table. Here’s\u00a0 a basic overview.<\/p>\n
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Brian<\/strong> was right: Boiling water added to the Instant Oats (particularly the apple and cinnamon packages) is many times better than cooking it on the stove top. I could actually use two packets of the stuff and only about half a cup of hot water and it winds up almost tasty.<\/p>\n Someone had suggested Maple Syrup and it didn’t cover the Awful. To try to rectify this I put maple syrup on each spoonful. Soon, I was soaring: speaking at about a hundred words per minute; jumping to go off and do some more work; changing diapers while cleaning the living room; deciding that maybe I should rewrite my book; finally crashing at 10:30 AM on the couch.<\/p>\n No one had suggested it but I decided to try semi-sweet chocolate chips and raisins. I had summoned Awful and I was sure that I was going to die. I’m not sure if I finished this bowl.<\/p>\n For some reason, everyone in my house has taken a hankering to eating all of my raisin packets. With the cupboards bare I decided to make a bowl of Oats (not instant; stovetop) with half a packet of Instant Vanilla Pudding. I used water\u2026.<\/p>\n \u2026I feel like puking just thinking about it. It was this sort of silky-slash-slimy concoction with a semi-texture of coagulated lumps of oats. The flavor was bland and my wife, noting that I didn’t use milk for the pudding, made a gagging face when I told her about it.<\/p>\n Don’t try it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve still been doing this thing; I’m trying to persevere. As I have done so there have been some days that I fell into a rut with something that I found bearable and other days that I summoned something Awful onto my breakfast table. Here’s\u00a0 a basic overview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,7],"tags":[274,285],"class_list":["post-806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants","category-reviews","tag-oats","tag-recipe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=806"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":808,"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions\/808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}