Oatmeal.
Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2025 10:33 am
When out shopping today I went to the rice section at the supermarket. They spell it Supermarket, but I would beg to differ.
On the shelves were more brands, types, varieties and flavours of rice than you might imagine.
What I wanted was a small, or even a medium size bag of brown rice. No, out of stock.
So I had a think and said "oatmeal". I must have said it out loud, because my wife and another young woman with a small child in a shopping trolley looked at me.
"Oatmeal", I repeated to my wife, hoping that proving I was supervised would calm the young woman.
If they had no brown rice, in one of the biggest rice producers in the world
I figured that some oats might be a source of quickly digested carbohydrates.
I found some, labelled "Breakfast oats".
When I got home I put about a big dozen raw peanuts and a heaped tablespoon of the 'Breakfast oats' in the small blender, whizzed them up and tipped them into 3 cups of grain mix. Squeezed a fish oil capsule on it and shook it.
I had kicked the Youngstars, the small youngsters, and a few stock pigeons who happened to be in the way out for a quick fly.
When they dropped in they attacked the feed with gusto.
It might not make them go any better, but it smelt alright
On the shelves were more brands, types, varieties and flavours of rice than you might imagine.
What I wanted was a small, or even a medium size bag of brown rice. No, out of stock.
So I had a think and said "oatmeal". I must have said it out loud, because my wife and another young woman with a small child in a shopping trolley looked at me.
"Oatmeal", I repeated to my wife, hoping that proving I was supervised would calm the young woman.
If they had no brown rice, in one of the biggest rice producers in the world
I figured that some oats might be a source of quickly digested carbohydrates. I found some, labelled "Breakfast oats".
When I got home I put about a big dozen raw peanuts and a heaped tablespoon of the 'Breakfast oats' in the small blender, whizzed them up and tipped them into 3 cups of grain mix. Squeezed a fish oil capsule on it and shook it.
I had kicked the Youngstars, the small youngsters, and a few stock pigeons who happened to be in the way out for a quick fly.
When they dropped in they attacked the feed with gusto.
It might not make them go any better, but it smelt alright