You may or may not know this about me but I love two things in the morning: coffee and oatmeal. Probably in that order.

I may have to cut back on the coffee a little bit though. I drank a whole pot by myself yesterday morning and I was a little shaky feeling for the rest of the day. Copious amounts of water didn't even fix the problem. Oops.

Luckily I don't have to cut back on oatmeal. Oatmeal's good for you.

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I like oatmeal because it's hot and creamy. It's a nice balance to the cold of winter and the dark mornings. It's also satisfying but more over, it's healthy. Did I mention it's tasty?

On a whole, I really like making it from scratch on the stove from whole oats. Recently, I accidentally bought a bag of quick oats which as the name implies cooks more quickly but I don't think is as tasty.  Serves me right trying to get everything on my shopping list in 10 minutes.

The result was that a few days later I was back at the store again. Only this time, I popped into Hit. And low and behold, they had the oats I wanted and something I didn't even know that I wanted nor did I know they existed in Bulgaria!!

Right?! That's the magic of Hit.

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Check this out: instant oatmeal. Boil water. Pour over the contents which have already been dumped into a bowl and in 2 minutes you have oatmeal.

This stuff is no where near as good at the whole oats but man-oh-man I had a busy week last week and these things are stupidly easy. And while they aren't <em>delicious</em> they're fine. For two minutes. There's strawberry from Nestle and Ovo-fit has at least two other flavors raspberry and apple. If you're wondering, raspberry is hands down the best.

Sometimes a girl just needs quick and easy and these fit the bill.