A couple months ago, oatmeal was on sale. Sure, it was those individual, pre-seasoned packets that are usually on the sweet side, but I figured I would indulge myself. I bought a box, took it home, busted one open and much to my dismay, I found it was a low-sugar version, meaning it had sugar substitute (curses!). The taste is somewhat unbearable, like eating an apple right after brushing your teeth (guess what I did around 7pm yesterday).Since then, I've tried to mask the flavor by adding stuff like yogurt, nuts, honey, ice cream, and peanut butter. The additives were good, but I couldn't enjoy them because the taste of artificial sweetening still lurked underneath, surfacing full force in an unforgiving aftertaste. I gave up for about a month, and then tonight I decided to give it another go. This time, I tried to rinse off the oats before nuking (worked out better than I expected), but then I remembered that the only milk that I had was chocolate soy milk (worked out worse than I had hoped). It ended up a soppy, unappealing, ugly mess as seen in the picture above.
I'm well on my way to ruining oatmeal for life.
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