F**king brown rice.

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40. I love steel cut oats

and my store also has them in bulk for fifty cents a pound which is about three servings. Thanks to Roger Ebert, I also make my oatmeal in the rice cooker. I add bananas, blueberries, chopped dates, raisins, whatever is handy.

Breakfast good for the rest of your life. Start with oatmeal. I like the stone-ground organic oatmeal. Put in as much as you need, and the specified amount of water. The water is important. I like my oatmeal a little al dente. You may like yours a little softer. With experience you can make small adjustments in the amount of water.

Slice your bananas, your peaches, your applies, pears, plums, apricots, strawberries, your Kiwi. Throw in your blueberries, your blackberries, your boysenberries, your this berry, your that berry. Drop in maybe a couple dried prunes. No, stupid. Not all the fruits at once. We're making breakfast, not fruit compote. Let's say two fruits together are nice. Bananas and peaches make Peaches 'n Cream.

While you're doing this, your oatmeal is already cooking. Figure out the hard way when to add the fruit to the Pot so it tastes the best and doesn't get all boiled to death on you.