I love to make oatmeal for breakfast, specifically on Saturdays for some reason. Oatmeal, is of course a blank canvas for whatever I want it to be. Keeping seasonality and prices in mind, I do an apples and cinnamon, blueberries and vanilla, peaches and lemon mint. These ingredients as well as a sweetener.Although I always just used plain table sugar, I have since transitioned to more nutritious alternatives. Honey, made by our disappearing friends, the honey bees, is an excellent option and my favorite. Although I put it in everything from PB & Js to cookie dough, it goes very well with the simplicity of oatmeal. Not to mention the different options- wildflower to clover to lavender, all of which cannot be written in stone (you try following a bee around and making sure it only goes to lavender flowers). Even more appealing, though is the fact that honey contains micro nutrients and minerals that aren't present in processed table sugar. As does turbinado sugar, which I learned about in bio; it too is not processed totally, giving it a brown color and all those awesome nutrients.
FYI: The Obamas even included some hives in their organic garden- the white house carpenter has to take care of them
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