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In all the excitement of this weekend, I forgot that I have four Quaker Oats prize packs to give away! Then I promise I will stop talking about oats and groats and marsey-doats and doesey-dotes. Each prize is a 1 month supply of Quaker’s heart healthy breakfast products – including Old Fashioned Quaker Oats, Quaker Instant Oatmeal, Quaker Oatmeal To Go and Quaker Oatmeal Squares.

To enter, leave a haiku about oatmeal in the comments below by 11:59pm on Saturday, November 15th. A haiku is a three line poem in which the first and third lines contain 5 syllables and the second line contains 7 syllables. Four winners will be drawn randomly, not by the quality of their haikus. However, if it is not a true haiku, you will be disqualified. Count your syllables, people!

To inspire you, here’s a pic of Roni, Mo and me in the taxi on our way to the Quaker Oats headquarters, are faces beaming with thoughts of oatmeal. Let us be your muses!

Roni, Mo and PastaQueen

Win or lose, you can also click this link to get a coupon for $1.00 off any two packages of Quaker Oatmeal. You must be using Internet Exploder for it to work though.

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  1. delicious oat, you

    are high in fiber. you

    keep me regular.

    but, um, that is gross.

    so instead i will thank you

    for being delish.

  2. @s – oops, i missed a syllable in my firstcommenthaze.

    delicious oat, you

    are high in fiber and you

    keep me regular.

    but, um, that is gross.

    so instead i will thank you

    for being delish.

  7. Bananas and oats

    the perfect combination

    thank you Quaker oats

    Shakespeare it’s not,but it’s all I got!

    Oh, and I think the syllables are correct,but was never a math genius either!

  11. @Stacy –

    Ooh, or better —

    Eighty pounds now gone

    Grateful for daily oatmeal

    And a healthy heart

  12. Steel-cut oats are king

    I can’t imagine any-

    thing being better.

    Sorry, Quaker Oats. I’ve been won over and I can’t go back ~ you still make great cookies, though, so you are in my pantry (just not as a breakfast food!).

  27. I laughed at your post!

    it isn’t dosey-dotes, duh!

    it goes “does eat oats!”

    mares may eat oats, but

    i eat oats too, every day

    at seven thirty.

  30. A morning of oats

    So delicious and filling

    A perfect day break

    I don’t know how much I like the Simple Harvest oatmeal though- it doesn’t seem to absorb water very well.. :(

  31. Oh! Tasty oatmeal!

    With sugar and raisins, yum!

    I will eat you up.

    I remember in middle school having to write haiku for a unit on Asia. I am terrible at them. They make me cringe. But I am broke, and will do nearly anything for free food.

  35. Haha…”Internet Exploder”. That’s a very accurate way to put it, actually. On the rare occasion I use that I wish it would explode.

  36. Three ride in a cab

    Brought together by oatmeal

    Mushy Warm Friendship

    Well thank God we’re not being chosen by the quality of our haiku, eh? rofl.

    And how did you know I tagged you on my blog? I never even told you! You blew my mind when you left a comment.

  47. Technically speaking, a “true haiku” should touch on elements of one of the four seasons. No, ‘strue! That said:

    Winter in Japan.

    Meal of rice, not meal of oats?

    Ready to go home.

    (Actually, there’s oatmeal here. It’s just too expensive to justify buying, when I can get a huge can at Acme for less than a buck.)

  52. so early she rose

    before her children and spouse

    instant oatmeal was

    non existant then.

    but oatmeal is nutricious

    and so delicious

    so she would get up

    at four a.m. to prepare

    the oats for her kids.

    ungrateful brats–they

    never said thank you, mommy!

    instead, eyes bleary

    they shovelled it down,

    brushed their teeth, put on their clothes

    and went to the fields

    to begin working.

    ah, the farming life! i am

    so glad i got out.

    but now that i’m grown

    i would like to say THANK YOU

    mom, for making oats.

  60. Love Haiku, so I did 2:

    lively breakfast treat

    cooked fast in the microwave

    good oats hot with milk

    wild oats served with love

    nurtures body soul and mind

    healthy creamy warm

  68. I hate poetry

    No talent have I to write

    But oats are tasty

    One time in the poetry unit of english class I was lacking in a topic so I wrote a poem about how much I hate writing poetry. I got a good grade. Hopefully I will have good results this time as well.

  70. Beige, lumpy goo

    Does not look appetizing

    But hides healthy yum!

    I like it thicker

    Like spackle, with brown sugar

    Makes my tummy smile.

  82. Weak bite fiber ew

    thick bland mouthful of paste

    palatable sway

    I’m not really a fan, but I want to be convinced…I know its filling and good for you, and I keep seeing all these blog people eating it with tons of crap added, and it almost looks good. I guess I want to give it another try, maybe make my own oatmeal challenge

  90. Warm and Creamy!

    Lowering Cholesterol

    While losing my fat!

    and

    Warm and Creamy!

    Greeting me at morningtime,

    Old-time Breakfast Treat.

  97. @cindy – Quaker makes steel cut oats too! In fact, at my grocery store they are usually less expensive than other brands. they are in the same shape container as the Old Fashioned Rolled Oats.

  108. Oatmeal in a bowl

    Smells like wet cardboard to me

    What am I doing wrong?

    Wish I liked oatmeal

    Supposedly good for us

    Pilgrim in a hat

    Thanks Jennette Fulda

    Creativity busts free

    Haiku re: oatmeal!

  114. Running in my eyes,

    Makes my hair hard and crusty.

    I hate chicken pox.

    (Remember the oatmeal baths back when kids still got the pox?)

  120. When I was very

    young, I ate a giant bowl

    and barfed. Yuck. (Sorry.)

    Years later: I *heart*

    the stuff. And their recipe

    for cookies? Foolproof.

    (Seriously, that “vanishing” oatmeal cookie on the Quaker lid is about the least troublesome drop cookie ever. No guesswork as to when they’re done; take ’em out when golden brown.)

  140. Clearly there isn’t enough bad poetry in the world, so I’ll do my part and add two haikus:

    Oatmeal for lunch and

    Oatmeal for dinner but not

    For breakfast. Too much.

    I say “oatmeal” but

    My Brit friend calls it “porridge”,

    So we disagree.

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