Raise your hand if you grew up eating oatmeal for breakfast. I know I did! My mom would whip up a batch of oatmeal with brown sugar, milk, and cinnamon on the regular, and I still love it.
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I actually make hot avena for my family for breakfast at least once or twice a week, but oats are cheap and we buy them in a huge container so we almost always have them in the pantry.
That means I end up using them in lots of other recipes, too. Mostly cookies or no-bake energy balls, but oatmeal can end up in any number of dishes that come out of my kitchen. Check out the gallery for 40 of the best oatmeal recipes I've come across.