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…

Looks like it’ll really ‘stick’ to their ribs.

Cinnamon and raw honey mixed in

Looks like you got MOM’S cereal.

Bruh cereal is cereal.

Cinnamon and chopped apples in the water, old fashioned oats, no milk, raw honey to finish.

Overnight oatmeal I enjoy, cooked- car not for the texture.

Sure is a lot healthier than that deadly sugar cereal. When fed Wheaties the lab rats died.

This reminds me of the Beverly Cleary book MITCH AND AMY. They were squabbling over who got to take the cereal boxtop to send away for a prize (do they even do that anymore?) and their mother told them to stop arguing, “…or I shall serve hot oatmeal every morning, 356 days a year, and there won’t be any boxtops to send away.”

I prefer oatmeal to generic puffed wheat or puffed rice

Moo Chunks is one of the best boxed cereal names I have ever seen.

Grandmother always served oatmeal because that’s what she got in the “commodity” box – I remember having to leave the table, once, half-way through breakfast, and when I came back and picked up my spoon from the bowl – the whole thing came out – sort of an oatmeal “popsicle” – and, yes, I had to finish it…

Back in the 60’s our Base commissary had “day care” for parents who wished to do their shopping sans children. Until we were trusted to push the cart and not fuss, my brother & I spent many a shopping trip there. Doubt it would work now, mega-marts want kids pushing stuff into the carts. $$$$!

Mom’s compromise is unpopular usually.

Just because the argument is ended doesn’t mean somebody won.

No one ever said compromise was fair.

Yuck! Boiled vomit.

Love oatmeal

I have oatmeal with added cereal so not so boring. Kids should not be tortured.

Maybe that’ll teach you to work together in future.

How about you buy both. Each kid eats out of a separate box.

If made right, oatmeal is scrumdiddlyumptious!

Important lesson to young siblings: if you fight over a choice, Mom wins. :-)