Baby Blues by Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott for September 21, 2024

Wanda put in HER favourite to the cart. LOL.

I like oatmeal once in a while, especially cold mornings.

I’d say that since you guys were unable to compromise, your mother made the decision for you. ;)

You can stir the lumps out, Zoe!

Wanda knows the folly of buying the kids high sugary cereal!

I don’t buy the pre-made oat packets. I get the regular 42-ounce container of quick oats, put 3/4 of a cup of oats and 10 ounces of water in a glass dish, and microwave it for 5 minutes at 50% power. Add some brown sugar, and voilà, the perfect breakfast!

I eat it every morning — but there’s a way to make it NOT lumpy. Mine is delicious.

As the Rolling Stones song says: “You can’t always get what you want.”

It’s more nutritious and more economic.

Oats: “A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.” – Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary.

(Personally, I really like oatmeal.)

Lumpy is good. Gobble the lumps.

I use oatmeal for Apple Crisp. I eat Grapenuts for morning cereal. One of the few that is not Sugar with a little grain in it.

This is what happen when you fight over every little things!!

And then there was Cream of Wheat too.

I hope it’s apple cinnamon or maple brown sugar oatmeal. Something with flavor.

Lesson: Never let mom negotiate the compromise. Stop arguing, give mom the four-barreled BIG SAD PUPPY EYES treatment and ask “PLEASE, dear mother without whom we wouldn’t exist, can we get both?” It would be a poor family indeed in which the mother wouldn’t spring for ONE more box of cereal for kids who would stop fighting and be so sweet and polite.

I like oatmeal, but prefer it thick with a dash of salt.

That’ll teach them.

I loved hot Oatmeal when I was a kid. We got it with a sprinkling of brown sugar and a dollop of butter right in the middle…