As you get older, you get told to eat oatmeal to lower your cholesterol and ease up on the salt. I’ve posted several low-salt recipes and recently I reinvented my chocolate chip cookie recipe to add more oatmeal to my diet (the doctor didn’t say how to eat oatmeal). After playing around with the recipe, it turns out I like these cookies even a bit more than my regular recipe!

Cream together:

1 cup margarine
3/4 cup regular sugar
3/4 cup packed brown sugar

Add and stir well:

1 egg (high altitude needs two)

Add and stir:

1 cup flour (high altitude needs 1 tsp baking soda at this time and an extra two tablespoons of flour)

Add:

2 3/4 cups oatmeal (2.5 cups for for gooier cookies)

Stir and then add:

1 to 2 tsp vanilla (I like 2 tsp, which is unusual for cookies)
1 1/2 cups chocolate chips (or more if you prefer)

Stir everything well and chill for two hours. Form one and a half inch balls and flatten with a fork on a cookie sheet. Bake at 350 for 12 to 15 minutes.

Whew.  That’s so healthy, I think I’ll go have myself a big fat BLT!!!