What's wrong with just eating oatmeal? I toast mine, add a little bit of salt and then just heat some up and eat it every morning.
A fried egg on top is good, but so is just plain oats. Try toasted oatmeal plain, you'll forget all about "additives".
My recipe:
In a deep skillet or heavy pot melt 2 tbsp butter over med-high heat.
Add one cup steel cut oats, quickly toss to coat all of the kernels with butter.
Heat over med-high until kernels start to crackle and pop, and start to get a dark coffee-colored brown.
Add 4 cups of BOILING water (steam burns hurt like hell, use a mitt) and stir.
Reduce heat to medium and simmer for 35 min.
Add 1 tsp salt and stir in, then continue to simmer 5 more minutes. Turn off heat and allow to cool. (Note that I'm at 6,000 feet, so your cooking time is probably significantly less. I'd go with 25-30 min for the initial cooking time.
I eat about 1/5 of this every day at work. If I skip a day I take the leftover home and fry it with a couple eggs and some homemade jalapeno jelly on top on Saturday.
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