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For at least the last seven years I have had almost exactly the same thing for breakfast on about 300 out of the 365 days of the year. This may be coming to an end and I am as upset as a koala bear being offered something other than eucalyptus leaves (or succulent human flesh) to eat. I like extra thick rolled oatmeal because it has more texture and chew than regular or, fate save me, quick oats. I think that quick oats are about as palatable as eating flour paste and the only conditions I will eat them under is that of a fishing trip when speed of getting out on the lake is paramount.
Fortunately for me I have a wonderful resource here in Denver, a store that has offered bulk foods and spices as low prices without any sort of brand name and in fact their name has of recent years been the rather generic "Natural Grocers" with their old name "Vitamin Cottage" tacked onto the end using "by" as conjunction. My cheap (not thrifty, frugal, or those other soft names for meanness with money) soul deeply loved getting a two pound bag of organic oatmeal for a little be more or a little less than $2.00. When I went in recently to pick up my usual 12 pound supply I was shocked to find that the price had risen to $3.60 for the extra thick rolled oats.
The room started to spin, my heart palpitated, and about 300 years of Scottish ancestors jumped up and down in the back of my head screaming about travesty and people who did not know the value of pennies. I did buy some anyways, but not nearly as much and really only to tide me over while I started to hunt for the best alternative. I suppose what I should do is to finally figure out how to properly prepare steel cut oats in my microwave as those are a great deal more available and interchangeable than thick rolled oats and I really do not give a fig one way or another for the whole organic thing. I just want inexpensive oatmeal the way that the gods intended.
And once I am settled into eating steel cut oats I suppose I will not ever have to change since they are a product that has changed little in centuries... Cue disaster that entirely deprives me of oatmeal just as I am about to be deprived of Google Reader. Also the owls have mostly eliminated the koala infestation at The Cup and Eagle, but have brought their own problems. More on that later and the state of my joints.
Fortunately for me I have a wonderful resource here in Denver, a store that has offered bulk foods and spices as low prices without any sort of brand name and in fact their name has of recent years been the rather generic "Natural Grocers" with their old name "Vitamin Cottage" tacked onto the end using "by" as conjunction. My cheap (not thrifty, frugal, or those other soft names for meanness with money) soul deeply loved getting a two pound bag of organic oatmeal for a little be more or a little less than $2.00. When I went in recently to pick up my usual 12 pound supply I was shocked to find that the price had risen to $3.60 for the extra thick rolled oats.
The room started to spin, my heart palpitated, and about 300 years of Scottish ancestors jumped up and down in the back of my head screaming about travesty and people who did not know the value of pennies. I did buy some anyways, but not nearly as much and really only to tide me over while I started to hunt for the best alternative. I suppose what I should do is to finally figure out how to properly prepare steel cut oats in my microwave as those are a great deal more available and interchangeable than thick rolled oats and I really do not give a fig one way or another for the whole organic thing. I just want inexpensive oatmeal the way that the gods intended.
And once I am settled into eating steel cut oats I suppose I will not ever have to change since they are a product that has changed little in centuries... Cue disaster that entirely deprives me of oatmeal just as I am about to be deprived of Google Reader. Also the owls have mostly eliminated the koala infestation at The Cup and Eagle, but have brought their own problems. More on that later and the state of my joints.