I think I mentioned before that I’m doing the South Beach Diet. So far, I have lost 10lbs. I hesitate to get in to numbers but whatever… as of today I’m at 10lbs. I’d like to lose another 40.
There are a lot of diets out there so you may not know the laws of the South Beach. It is pretty much all about eating lots of vegetables and lean proteins, and restricting the amount of grains you eat and limiting those to whole grains. Fruits have lots of sugar so they are limited too… and sugar is right out. No sugar.
Anyway, I’m far enough in to the diet that I can eat a few whole grains. Due to my laziness I keep a big can of rolled oats at work. It means that even if I get up late, there’s always something I can have for lunch.
Today I got up extra late. I decided I would do oatmeal but brown sugar and raisins are not on the approved list, so I decided I would finally try something like Brian’s savory oatmeal. I had a little package of lively run goat cheese that I love but haven’t been eating for lack of crackers. So I stirred about an ounce of that into a serving salty oatmeal and added about 1/4 – 1/8 tsp of black pepper to the mix.
Holy crap! It was so delicious. It was something like risotto, something like a sharp mac and cheese. I started to wonder what Canadian Bacon and cheddar oatmeal would be like. And then I started thinking again about peanut butter oatmeal, maybe with some red pepper flakes and soy sauce… something like the west african peanut chicken stew I made the other night.
I know… this sounds freaky. But seriously, try salty oatmeal with goat cheese and black pepper before you make up your mind. It tastes great and it’s way less likely to lead to diabetes than brown sugar and raisins. 
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