What Are you Having for Breakfast Today?

iVillage Member
Registered: 07-15-2008
What Are you Having for Breakfast Today?
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Tue, 10-07-2008 - 8:21am

Today (and yesterday and the day before...) I had a cup of lf plain yogurt with a tablespoon of sf, ff cheesecake jello, splenda and a 1/4 of a chopped banana mixed in!


My morning snack will be the remainder of the banana and a cup of steel cut oats, which leads me to another question.


I take 1 cup of steel cut oats, cook with 5 cups of liquid (3 cups milk and 2 cups water), splenda, a 1/2 cup of finely chopped walnuts, and depending on my mood cinnamon, nutmeg, etc for flavorings.


From all this I get 6 cups of oatmeal.  I know this because I divy it up into one cup serving containers.  So what is the actual grain serving I'm getting?  1, less than 1? or more?  I've been counting it as one


 


 

Sheila

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iVillage Member
Registered: 01-03-2006
Tue, 10-07-2008 - 8:38am
I had greek yogurt mixed with splenda, mixed berries and slivered almonds.
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iVillage Member
Registered: 12-06-2007
Tue, 10-07-2008 - 8:49am

I had steel cut oats made with milk, and stirred in some sugar-free raspberry jam.

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iVillage Member
Registered: 12-06-2007
Tue, 10-07-2008 - 8:53am

I always get

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iVillage Member
Registered: 07-15-2008
Tue, 10-07-2008 - 9:01am

I thought (and could be wrong) that 1/4 cup uncooked = 1 cup cooked, and 2 grain servings


So, if 1 cup uncooked = 6 cups cooked, would mean about 1.25 grains per 1 cup serving?

iVillage Member
Registered: 01-03-2006
Tue, 10-07-2008 - 9:02am
I just checked my box and 1/3 of a cup = 40g! So one serving would be less than 1/3 of a cup....at least for this brand. Wow!
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iVillage Member
Registered: 12-06-2007
Tue, 10-07-2008 - 9:14am

I just checked my box of steel cut oats; ¼ cup uncooked = 40 grams.

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iVillage Member
Registered: 06-29-2005
Tue, 10-07-2008 - 9:29am
I had a chocolate banana soy smoothie made with some of the yogurt I
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iVillage Member
Registered: 07-15-2008
Tue, 10-07-2008 - 9:42am

Well

iVillage Member
Registered: 08-07-2007
Tue, 10-07-2008 - 12:27pm
I had a slice of baked oatmeal with shredded apples (made over the weekend) and a hard-boiled egg.
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iVillage Member
Registered: 04-01-2004
Tue, 10-07-2008 - 1:28pm

1/4 cup uncooked steel-cut oats is a serving


1/2 cup uncooked steel-cut oats is a serving


We don't measure the cooked volume.

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