You knew it had to be bad, but this bad? Bittman on McOats:
A more accurate description than “100 percent natural whole-grain oats,” “plump raisins,” “sweet cranberries” and “crisp fresh apples” would be “oats, sugar, sweetened dried fruit, cream and 11 weird ingredients you would never keep in your kitchen.”
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Incredibly, the McDonald’s [oatmeal] contains more sugar than a Snickers bar and only 10 fewer calories than a McDonald’s cheeseburger or Egg McMuffin. (Even without the brown sugar it has more calories than a McDonald’s hamburger.)
Read the whole thing; Bittman really hits it out of the park on the perception of simplicity, speed, and “cheap” calories. I particularly enjoy knowing that cream “contains seven ingredients, [only] two of them actual dairy.”
Lemkin 