drop the breakfast meat and go all oatmeal.
not the instant packets with all the salt,
but the cardboard round box with just oatmeal.
a few raisins or some honey and you're set.
most healthy and nutritious breakfast you can have.
(there's always steak and eggs 
)
I love dark chocolate.
With many new or current candy bars, the milk chocolate contains a less and less cocoa butter or chocolate liquor. It is be replaced with some oil or imitation flavor.
There was an article in Bloomberg magazine very recently that the low return for farmers that grow cocoa beans is causing many to quit and switch to other crops.
Obviously this is driving the price of cocoa beans and therefore chocolate up, which is one reason less and less real chocolate is being used in milk chocolate bars.
The result being either smaller bars or more artificial ingredients being added to keep the bars the same size.
As for your oatmeal the only thing missing is pouring some half and half on.
Oatmeal has been my favorite hot cereal since I was old enough to remember.
When I started making it my self, I found out the longer cooking type did seem to taste better than the quick or instant types, at the same time I also found that there are brands that taste as good or better than Quaker and are cheaper, or more expensive.
On a sad note, I found out recently, that with flake type oatmeal the only thing that really separates the instant and quick cook types from the longer cooking type is that the quicker ones merely take a longer cooking type and cut or shred the pieces so they absorb water and cook more quickly.
