0 a type of flour made from oats: --
oatmeal bread
1 crushed oats, esp. cooked as a breakfast food --
I would add that it is occasionally possible to give them fried herring, but even that requires oatmeal.
I believe that oatmeal—and herring, too—is consumed more in the houses of the well-to-do than in the houses of the poor.
Encouragement and assistance have already been given to oatmeal millers and breakfast cereals manufacturers to attain the maximum possible output.
Like any other item of diet, oatmeal is not generally consumed by itself as a complete food.
Of the £65,000,000 which represents the current rate of subsidy for bread, flour and oatmeal, the proportion assignable to bread is approximately £35,000,000.
In an affluent society people no longer have bread, oatmeal, herrings and potatoes as their main staple diet.
They eat a large quantity of oatcakes, oatmeal bannocks and other things, like haggis, for instance.
Statistical returns of oatmeal production cover periods of two weeks and it is not possible therefore to give accurate figures for production during calendar months.
