{"id":7905,"date":"2010-12-03T12:41:35","date_gmt":"2010-12-03T22:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/?p=7905"},"modified":"2023-09-04T21:33:37","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T07:33:37","slug":"news-to-maybe-make-up-for-the-big-macs-theyve-sold-over-the-years-mcdonalds-will-soon-sell-oatmeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/2010\/12\/03\/news-to-maybe-make-up-for-the-big-macs-theyve-sold-over-the-years-mcdonalds-will-soon-sell-oatmeal\/","title":{"rendered":"NEWS: To Maybe Make Up For The Big Macs They&#8217;ve Sold Over The Years, McDonald&#8217;s Will Soon Sell Oatmeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mochick\/257677698\/\" title=\"McDonald's by girlwparasol, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/113\/257677698_68e703aeee.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"McDonald's\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>If your New Year&#8217;s resolution is to eat healthier, McDonald&#8217;s is the last place you&#8217;ll want to go.  However, if you want to break that resolution, McDonald&#8217;s might be the first place you&#8217;ll go.  But starting January 3rd, you might be able to walk into a McDonald&#8217;s and walk out with your New Year&#8217;s resolution intact, thanks to their new Fruit &#038; Maple Oatmeal.<\/p>\n<p>The oatmeal contains half a cup of fruit, which consists red and green apples, dried cranberries, and golden and regular raisins.  All that wholesomeness will give you five grams of dietary fiber and two-thirds of your daily recommended intake of whole grain.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll be able to get the Fruit &#038; Maple Oatmeal with or without brown sugar.  With sugar, the serving of oatmeal will contain 290 calories, and 260 without it.  It will be available all day long for $1.99.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grubgrade.com\/2010\/12\/02\/food-news-fruit-and-maple-oatmeal-from-mcdonalds-coming-nationwide-in-january\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Grub Grade<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><small><\/p>\n<div xmlns:cc=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/ns#\" about=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/88776252@N00\/257677698\/\"><a rel=\"cc:attributionURL\" href=http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/88776252@N00\/257677698><\/a>Image via flickr user girlwparasol \/ <a rel=\"license\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/deed.en\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/small> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If your New Year&#8217;s resolution is to eat healthier, McDonald&#8217;s is the last place you&#8217;ll want to go. However, if you want to break that resolution, McDonald&#8217;s might be the first place you&#8217;ll go. But starting January 3rd, you might be able to walk into a McDonald&#8217;s and walk out with your New Year&#8217;s resolution [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1429],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fast-food-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8095,"url":"https:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/2010\/12\/30\/review-mcdonalds-fruit-maple-oatmeal\/","url_meta":{"origin":7905,"position":0},"title":"REVIEW: McDonald&#8217;s Fruit &#038; Maple Oatmeal","author":"Marvo","date":"December 30, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Ordering the McDonald's Fruit & Maple Oatmeal via the drive-thru at my local McDonald's made me feel like I was in an alternate universe, where McDonald's brags about being fresh and healthy, while Subway has a fat Jared Fogle dressed up as a clown as their spokesperson. 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