Monique’s Vague Instant Oatmeal Recipe

The benefits of this recipe is that it’s easy to prepare at work, and you can keep the main ingredients in your cube without worrying about them going bad. Oh and it’s healthy and less work than deciding what you want to have at the cafe.

• An amount of oatmeal
• An amount of dried fruit
• A small-ish amount of brown sugar (1 spoonful of sugar for every cup or so of oats maybe?)
• An even smaller amount of salt (1 pinch per two cups maybe)

Put oatmeal in food processor. Use the chopping blade. Press pulse a few times. Don’t turn the whole thing to dust, though.

Combine all the other ingredients. Put as much or as little of everything as you like. Experiment!

Put contents in container for future use.

To prepare a bowl of oatmeal, use a ratio of 2 parts water to 1 part oatmeal. Put in microwave for 1.5 – 2 minutes. Stop and stir if it starts to overflow.

Monique’s Dad’s Spartan Lunch

My dad’s been using this recipe for a couple of years now, and he likes to call it his spartan lunch (in honor of the Grecians not the Michigan State team ), so I’ve kept the name as that. Benefits are health, easy cube storage, and ease of use.

• 1 cup of mixed nuts (I like walnuts and almonds)
• Some easy to handle, no-need to refrigerate fruit (e.g. apples, bananas, oranges)

Enjoy.

Variation: Take some more perishable fruit to work if you feel like it. You’ll still probably want to stay away from messy fruit, though. Raspberry juice on the keyboard is no fun for anyone.

Oh, and in case you don’t believe I actually do this, here’s a picture of my healthy food stash:

Enjoy!