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Personal Narrative: Oats Beyond The Meal

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Oats Beyond the Meal
A lot of preppers websites love to tell you to store grains, and rice, and flour, and salt etc. I noticed that they really don’t give a lot of fact about the foods they recommend. This happens to be my biggest pet peeve of all prepper sites. I am that annoying girl at the front of the class “But why? Why? Why?” Without the facts I don’t really see the point of set aside money on things I never eat or don’t really know the value of.
One of the most recommended grains to store are oats. I grew up in a household that loved oatmeal. I used to get up every day since four grade and cook up a pot of oatmeal for my mom and me. We always ate it the same way, brown sugar and a little bit of milk. Most mornings I would discard half of mine because I’m not really a fan of breakfast and the texture would bother me by the end. I never knew why mom wanted me to eat oatmeal until now. …show more content…

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