Want convenience and oatmeal at the same time?

Last night I spent sixty seconds filling a miniature crock pot with steel cut oats and water. I turned it on and went to bed.

This morning I turned off the crock pot when I woke up, then went about my morning routine. After about 15 minutes, I scooped the oats out into a bowl and stirred in a bit of tart cherry preserves.

Voila! Oatmeal. In fact, it's steel cut oats so it's healthier than rolled. The fruit preserves are a fairly healthy version that's made with real fruit, rather than being sugar with some fruit added. My total effort was less than five minutes.

This is my daily breakfast. It's easy, tasty, and healthy. I keep different jars of preserves around so that I have a variety of flavors. (If you're looking at my diet calendar, they all go in as a teaspoon of sugar. It's close enough, and I'm lazy.)