The Ultimate Convenience Breakfast Food – Homemade Oatmeal Packets

I love granola for breakfast.  As a matter of fact, it’s one of the recipes I gave you in the blog post “Seven Simple Food Storage Breakfasts.” When it comes time to make breakfast it’s already ready and at my fingertips.  Not that it’s a problem, but the downside to granola is the 15 active minutes of making it and the hour of baking it and all the cleaning up of the pans – that parts the WORST.  But there are other ways to use oatmeal that are both easy and convenient!

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Today though, we’re going to focus on convenience.  Convenience is a wonderful thing now, but an even more important thing during a power outage for instance.  Anything that you can do to up your convenience factor so that you can focus your attention on more important things then is a double blessing!

So today, we’re going to talk about homemade oatmeal packets.  They are simple to make, cost-effective, and not messy.  So that means easy cleanup – SCORE!   But if you’re kids are like my kids, what one likes the others hate and sometimes vice-versa.  That means that I have to have a lot of different options to what I’m making.  I’m going to pass those options on to you.

Homemade Oatmeal Packet #1

Plain and simple

1/2 C Oats

1 T Nonfat dry milk powder

1 T Brown Sugar or Sucanat (SUgar CANe NATural – It’s sugar with all the minerals still intact.) I buy brown sugar from Costco

Directions:  To use the packet, boil 3/4 C of water and add it to your homemade ‘packet.’

Homemade Oatmeal Packet #2

Raisin and Brown Sugar

1/2 C Oats

1 T Nonfat dry milk powder

1 T Brown sugar or Sucanat

1 T Raisins

Directions:  To use the packet, boil 3/4 C of water and add it to your homemade ‘packet.’

Homemade Oatmeal Packet #3

Chocolate Lovers

1/2 C Oats

1 T Nonfat dry milk powder

1 T Brown sugar or sucanat

1 tsp cocoa powder

1 T chocolate chips – I buy these from Costco

Directions:  To use the packet, boil 3/4 C of water and add it to your homemade ‘packet.’

Homemade Oatmeal Packet #4

Strawberries and Cream

1/2 C Oats

1 T Brown Sugar or Sucanat

2 T Nonfat dry milk powder

1 T Freeze-dried strawberries

Directions:  To use the packet, boil 3/4 C of water and add it to your homemade ‘packet.’

Homemade Oatmeal Packet #5

Apples and Cinnamon

1/2 C Oats

1 T Nonfat dry milk powder

2 T Freeze-dried apple slices

1 T Brown sugar or sucanat

1/2 tsp cinnamon

Directions:  To use the packet, boil 3/4 C of water and add it to your homemade ‘packet.’

Which version do you think your children would prefer?  Which do you think would be your favorite?  Oatmeal is something most people have on hand.  Give these packets a try and let me know what you think.

What About You?

What’s your favorite way to eat oatmeal?  Have you converted it to something you could use an oatmeal packet for?  I’d love to hear!  Share your ideas with us below in the comments so that we can all be better prepared.

Together, let’s Love, Learn, Practice and Overcome!