Brown Sugar

We eat oatmeal for breakfast quite often. My kids like it and ask for it. We like to eat it with milk and brown sugar. Most days the girls take twice (or more) as long to eat as I take. So I will go upstairs and continue on with my preparations for the day while they finish eating. Inevitably, if I have left the bag of brown sugar on the table and left the room, when I return I will find Miriam trying to hide the fact that she has been eating the brown sugar straight from the bag.

I must confess, while this is not the best food to eat, she comes by it honestly. I remember as a kid sneaking into the pantry and getting out the brown sugar. I would eat it plain straight from the bag. Mmm. That rich, sweet flavor! Life couldn't get much better than that. Now, I thought I was so sneaky. My mom never mentioned this little habit I had. But as a mother, I really don't think there is any way she didn't know someone was eating the brown sugar. It isn't cheap and we must have gone through a lot of it!