Sooo...I'm off vacation now...

Back at work. Whee? Decided to take the opportunity to try the Quaker® Real Medley that was sent to me in my Influenster Holiday 2012 VoxBox. The product was sent to me for review and I was not paid by either company for my opinions on this.

Now...normally.....oatmeal yuck. YUCK! Its like wallpaper paste or some goopy soup. I can never seem to get the right amount of water in it. Normally food textures don't bother me...but for some reason oatmeal texture ALWAYS bothered me. I can eat poi but not oatmeal, go figure.

That being said, I decided to give this stuff a shot anyway. It was the cherry and pistachio flavour, two things I love love love. I have to say it wasn't bad. I ate it all. I wanted more. That's saying a lot actually.

Now...I still didn't get the right amount of water in it. I put too much. I didn't measure I just kind of put the water in. We are lucky enough to have one of those water coolers at work that also has a SCALDING HOT spigot, so its pretty easy making breakfast cereals with it. I was just talking and not paying attention (story of my life.)


 As you can see, I got it kind of soupy...but not TOO bad. You can also see the huge chunk of pistachio in there as well as almonds. There were also cherry chunks in there and you could tell they were real dried cherries not some gummy fruit version of a cherry. This made me a happy camper. I am not a fan of the fakey fruit flavour.

I really liked this stuff. I would probably buy it if you could get it as packets in a box rather than $1.79 for each cup full. Granted, $1.79 is cheaper than breakfast at McDs but still...you can get a whole box of oatmeal from the store for around $2-$3 and there are what, 10 packets in there? I'd probably purchase this again if I had a coupon or it was on super sale...but it won't be a regular purchase if it is always at full price. That's just a little big for my budget.

The flavour on this was grade A. I did like the mixture of multigrain in the cereal as well. The fruit and nut combo was perfect. They sent me the one flavour out of the four I see listed on the website that I would actually eat. Thumbs up for luck there! I enjoyed this little cup of oatmeal. Did it convert me in to an all time oatmeal lover? No...but it did make me a Cherry Pistachio Real Medleys fan.

~Robin