Oatmeal Cookies Are The #1 Non-Cereal Use For Oatmeal, Followed By Meatloaf And Fruit Crisp
National Oatmeal Day comes around annually on October 29, celebrating one of the world’s most versatile, familiar foods. But how many of us know more than that? How many ways are there to prepare it? With all the ways to eat and use oatmeal, it’s no wonder we had to dedicate a whole day to it! 7000 BC – Oats were one of the earliest cereals cultivated by man. They were known in ancient China as long ago as 7,000 B.C. The ancient Greeks were the first people known to have made recognizable porridge (cereal) from oats. 1000 BC – Some historians say the wild ancestors of modern oats were widespread in Asia. But they weren’t domesticated until sometime in the first millennium BCE in what is now Central Europe. 1602 – The Scots have eaten oatmeal for centuries; the grain itself grows well in that part of the world due to that country’s low temperatures and high humidity. 1755 – Samuel…