My 1st review and giveaway!

Well, you guessed right!



I decided to try and review McDonald's new "Fruit & Maple Oatmeal!"

I was up at 6:30 feeding the youngster and even though I reallly felt like going back to bed, I decided against it and headed up to the Golden Arches once I'd finished.  Ryan was half asleep on the couch as I proceeded to tell him where I was going.  "I know," he said.  "You're going to do a giveaway and review that McDonald's oatmeal."  I was impressed that he had read my blog!

I threw on some tennis shoes with my pajama pants and came home with this little lovely.  I decided to use their spoon...you know, to get the full experience.



I liked it!

Here are my notes:

* It's instant oats, not your thicker old-fashioned kind.

* It's sweet, but not TOO sweet.  It didn't taste like they had dumped a ton of sugar in it.

*It's chocked full of red and green apples, cranberries, and golden and regular raisins.

* It was pretty filling.  It would definitely get you through a couple hours into your morning and is a nice portion size.

* You could make this at home.  But, if you're out and about and need a healthy-ish breakfast or snack, go for it!  You could make worse choices.

[caption id="attachment_1588" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="What I saw when I opened the lid..."][/caption]

[caption id="attachment_1589" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="After a quick stir."][/caption]

[caption id="attachment_1590" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Breakfast!"][/caption]

[caption id="attachment_1592" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Can you taste it? :>"][/caption]

 

[caption id="attachment_1593" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="CAUTION. HOT! It WAS still warm when I got it home..."][/caption]

[caption id="attachment_1594" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="I tried to capture the Nutrition Facts. But it came out fuzzy. At least they're on the cup!"][/caption]

You get:

290 calories. 4.5 grams of total fat. 57 grams of carbs. 5 grams of fiber! 32 grams of sugar (I think some of this has GOT to be from the fruit. That's a lot of sugar.) 5 grams of protein.

I kept eating it, so it couldn't have been that bad :)  This was not as good as what I'd make at home.  Old fashioned oats...throw in some peanut butter...cinnamon.  But like I said, not a bad choice if you're on the go.  I'm not a McDonald's advocate but why not commend them for trying to add a health-IER choice?  The bag says the oatmeal is swirled with light cream and brown sugar.  I think I could taste the cream.  It had a nice, pleasant flavor and I would buy this again.  For $2.15, the price is definitely right!

I kept eating it.





So.  What do ya think?  Do you want to try some??  :--)

Here's what to do!  For my 1st ever blog giveaway, I'll be mailing $5 worth of McDonald's give certificates to one lucky winner.  That will buy you 2 oatmeals, should you so choose.  Of course you don't have to spend it on that if you don't want to :>  To enter, comment on THIS POST and tell me something about oatmeal...

What's your favorite way to eat it?  Do you even like it?  Is oatmeal in your regular breakfast rotation?

I'll tally up the comments from the weekend and on Monday will use a random integer chooser thing :-) to pick a winner.

So comment away!  And happy weekend :-)