Last Updated on April 16, 2024 by Michelle

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Can you make homemade “instant” oatmeal from scratch? I was determined to figure it out. After all, I’m a firm believer that real food CAN be convenient. In fact, that’s the topic of the current season on the podcast…

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Homemade Instant Oatmeal

INGREDIENTS

2 cups Old Fashioned Rolled Oats

1/8-1/4 cup maple sugar or coconut sugar

1/2 tsp salt

1/4 tsp cinnamon

1/2 cup add ins (see below)

DIRECTIONS

Toast 2 cups of old-fashioned rolled oats at 350, for 15 minutes.
After oats have cooled, pulse half of them in your food processor briefly, to coarsely chop them.
Place all oats together in a bowl and stir in the rest of the ingredients.
Store in a mason jar.
To prepare, scoop a few tablespoons into a bowl and add enough hot water to make your oatmeal the consistency you like.

IDEAS FOR ADD-INS:

walnuts (you can chop these with the oats),
sunflower seeds,
pumpkin seeds (I use these),
dehydrated strawberry powder (find directions to make dehydrated strawberry powder here),
chopped up dried fruits, such as peaches, strawberries, or blueberries (read more about adding dried fruit in notes, below)

Notes for Homemade Instant Oatmeal

Toasting the oats is definitely optional, but trust me that added umpf in taste is well worth the extra effort.

Feel free to double this recipe to fill up a quart-size mason jar with your ready-made, homemade oatmeal.

You can add dehydrated fruit (on any add-in, really) to the stored mix or wait and add in whatever add-ins you’re in the mood for as you prepare each bowl. Bonus, if you add dried fruit right before serving, instead of into your dried mix, you can rehydrate it a few minutes, in a tiny bowl of hot water, so it’s nice and soft in your oatmeal.

These sealed, flip-top mason jar lids are my favorite way to store not only meat rubs, but all my homemade seasonings, homegrown herbs, and my favorite loose leaf teas. Grab a 4-pack and it’s even better than getting one free!

You can make your own maple sugar. Go here to find out how to make your own maple sugar.

Not sure what sugar you want to use? Go here for a break down of all the best options.

Use Redmond Real Salt in this recipe and add more than 64 trace minerals to your amazing bowl of oatmeal! Use code SOULYRESTED to save & stock up on some of this amazing salt today. I buy it in the bulk size because it stores so easily and keeps forever.

I source many of these ingredients from Azure Standard. Go here to find out how this independent food supply chain is fixing a broken food system and connecting food suppliers directly to consumers.

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Homemade Instant Oatmeal

Ingredients

2 cups Old Fashioned Rolled Oats
1/8-1/4 cup maple sugar or coconut sugar
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp cinnamon
1/2 cup add ins see below*

Instructions

Toast 2 cups of old-fashioned rolled oats at 350, for 15 minutes.
After oats have cooled, pulse half of them in your food processor briefly, to coarsely chop them.
Place all oats together in a bowl and stir in the rest of the ingredients.
Store in a mason jar.
To prepare, scoop a few tablespoons into a bowl and add enough hot water to make your oatmeal the consistency you like.

Notes

*Add-in ideas:

walnuts (you can chop these with the oats),
sunflower seeds,
pumpkin seeds (I use these),
dehydrated strawberry powder (find directions to make dehydrated strawberry powder here),
chopped up dried fruits, such as peaches, strawberries, or blueberries (read more about adding dried fruit in notes, below)

Items I use to Make Homemade Instant Oatmeal

I highly recommend this organic, delicious cinnamon.

These organic oats are the only ones I buy

I have more than a dozen of these lids and use them for herbs, seasonings, teas, sugars, and more.

This dehydrator is superior to Excalibur in every category. I love mine.

Redmond’s Real Salt–the only salt mined in the US–is never heat processed and stripped of their natural trace minerals. Use code SOULYRESTED to save with every order.

Maple sugar is delicious, all-natural sugar that you can substitute for refined sugar in every way, 1:1 ratio

Talk to me!

If you have any questions, leave a comment below. And please tag me on ig to show me your amazing oatmeal you create @souly.rested.

Other pantry staples you should be making yourself:

How to Make All-natural Maple Candy (video)

Make your own taco seasoning

Make your own meat rub

Homemade (healthy!) DIY Soda

Make your own fats by Rendering Lard

Mill Your Own Flour

I know that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to do good while they live. That each of them may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all their toil—this is the gift of God. Ecclesiastes 3: 12-13

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