<p>I have recently discovered that I LOVE this healthy food. I have been making a pot on the weekends that make enough for the whole week and I refriderate them and portion them out each morning, adding a little liquid and heating in the microwave. When cooking I have just been adding the desired amount of water, than after they are cooked I add some dried blueberries and cinnamon. </p>
<p>My question is, does anyone have any other/better ideas? Also, had anyone ever cooked them in a savory dish? Thanks in advance!</p>
<p>Here’s a yummy baked oatmeal recipe which uses steel cut oats. It calls for dried cranberries and apricots, but I’ve used many other types of dried fruits and they are all delicious. It is a big batch, but it freezes well.</p>
<p>It is super easy to cook steel cut oats overnight in your crockpot with no mess. You essentially create a water bath. Put about an inch and half of water in the bottom of the crockpot. Take a bowl or baking dish or something that is okay to be in the hot water. Put in 1/4 cup of oats per cup of water for 1 serving (I usually make 1 or 2 servings). Place the dish in the water (it will come only partway up the side of the bowl), put the top on the crockpot, turn the crockpot on low. 6-8 hours later, turn it off and your oats are cooked overnight with no mess in the crockpot.</p>
<p>I find that fruit (like raisins) get too mushy cooked overnight. Sometimes I stir them in when I turn off the crockpot, then just put the top back on while I shower and get dressed. They are softened, but not mush.</p>
<p>That baked oatmeal recipe looks fantastic. My doctor has recommended that I try a gluten-free diet next year, and I’m not looking forward to giving up all my favorite morning cereals. Having something like that in the fridge would be a good wake-up!</p>
<p>I tried these for the first time recently. I followed the instructions on the box and it seemed to me they weren’t cooked enough, very gritty. Is that how they are supposed to be, or should I add more water and cook longer than the box says?</p>
<p>The recipe I always make and I made it this morning! This recipe makes about 4 days worth for me. I add some brown sugar to it too - in addition to this recipe, at the end I add about 1/4 c. chopped almonds and 1/4 cup dried fruit. Then, I add some fresh fruit - usually blueberries - when I eat it.</p>
<p>I take 1/4 cup steel cut oatmeal add a half cup of soy milk and 1/4 cup of water. Microwave 8 minutes on medium setting. After the microwave I add 1/2 cup of frozen blueberries and stir.
The heat defrosts the blueberries.</p>
<p>One other thing I have found is that at my local co-op, they are something like $1.19/lb (organic) in the bulk section. The kind in the box is more than twice that price per pound (for non-organic).</p>
<p>^^^Great ?, I was wondering that too and think that I have found that they are not. I was considering the palao diet and saw they were on the avoid list.</p>
<p>I take a cup of Steel Cut oats from Trader Joes (I don’t think that it’s their own store brand), and cook it in water (don’t recall how much but it’s on the box). I take half and put it in a GlassLock container and the other half in another GlassLock container. Then I let them cool and put them in the refrigerator. I then have two days of oatmeal. I generally try to eat about 100 grams of carbs in the morning when I’m going running so that I have enough fuel. I sometimes add one or two slices of fiber bread, or one to two cups of high-fiber cereal.</p>
<p>Today I tried Oat Bran Cereal (hot) and it was okay - it doesn’t soak up the water and expand like oatmeal does.</p>
<p>Steel cut oats were 99 cents a pound at my local Sprouts store. They didn’t cost any more than rolled oats!!</p>
<p>I put 40 g (approximately 1/4 C) oats with 3/4 C almond milk and 20 g craisins in my NEW rice cooker the night before. Then I set the timer for when I want to eat breakfast in the morning. I wake up and am greeted by a hot breakfast.</p>