{"id":10361,"date":"2023-08-18T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-18T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=10361"},"modified":"2023-08-17T15:15:20","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T20:15:20","slug":"oatsnboats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=10361","title":{"rendered":"Oatsnboats"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I travelled south of the border for a day-long getaway last weekend. It&#8217;s noteworthy that this is my third trip to &#8216;Murica in less than a year, after having barely travelled outside of the city for the last decade. It&#8217;s kind of fun! (But also I always wind up spending too much&#8230;)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, today I&#8217;m going to talk about oatmeal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because I&#8217;m such an exciting person, you see.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/oats0.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/oats0.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10363\" width=\"250\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/oats0.png 500w, https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/oats0-214x300.png 214w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>But this is no ordinary oatmeal! No, sir! This is Cap&#8217;n Crunch Oops All Berries instant oatmeal! There was also a regular Cap&#8217;n Crunch oatmeal available for purchase but, I mean, <em>crunchberries<\/em>. When am I not going to pick crunchberries? Oh, sure, I could have simply bought both, but I try to limit the amount of excessively sugary things I put in my body as best I can. Aside from crunchberries, of course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, I&#8217;m going to call this product OABmeal from now on because it&#8217;s easier to type and more fun to say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>I can very confidently say that this is by a wide margin the best oatmeal I&#8217;ve ever had. Because it&#8217;s jam-packed with sugar, of course, but that doesn&#8217;t make my point any less valid. I do eat plain-ass oatmeal on a semi-regular basis, and once in a while I will splurge on some with a little flavour dust, but that first spoonful of OABmeal was a major shock to my tastebuds. I had suspected that the flavour wouldn&#8217;t be overly powerful, but I was wrong. So very wrong! It&#8217;s actually not that different from eating a bowl of Oops All Berries. Except that there&#8217;s oats in there too, now.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/oats.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/oats.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10362\" srcset=\"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/oats.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/oats-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/oats-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The very smart thing that Quaker did with this specialty oatmeal was to package the oats and berries separately. That way, after you&#8217;ve prepared your oats, you can toss the crunchberries on top so that they retain their crunchiness. Which is very similar to how Cap&#8217;n Crunch&#8217;s main selling point has always been that the cereal stays crunchy even in milk. And that&#8217;s cool! It&#8217;s an EZ clap, certainly, but one that cheaper companies may not have bothered with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My favourite thing about OABmeal, however, isn&#8217;t the satisfying taste or thoughtful packaging. Rather, I am over the moon for the itty bitty mini-crunchberries! They&#8217;re so tiny and cute! I don&#8217;t have a regular crunchberry on hand to compare, but I would estimate that the crunchberries that come with OABmeal are roughly half the size of the average crunchberry. Friggin&#8217; adorable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I guess it goes without saying that I <em>instantly<\/em> became a huge fan of this stuff. Absolutely would and will buy again. 100% earns the TE Seal of Approval. This should come as no surprise, as I&#8217;ve always been obsessed with Cap&#8217;n Crunch&#8217;s various cereals. But man, am I ever going to be sad when I eat up that last package and it&#8217;s all over. OABmeal is currently not available in Canada, so it&#8217;s not like I can just pop it on my weekly grocery order to get my fix. I&#8217;m definitely going to be bringing at least one box home with me on any future visits to the USA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I travelled south of the border for a day-long getaway last weekend. It&#8217;s noteworthy that this is my third trip to &#8216;Murica in less than a year, after having barely travelled outside of the city for the last decade. It&#8217;s kind of fun! (But also I always wind up spending too much&#8230;) Anyway, today I&#8217;m &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=10361\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Oatsnboats<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foodstuffs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10364,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10361\/revisions\/10364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}