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Governor Schwarzenegger’s Oatmeal: Organic or not

By Linda Eckhardt on May 21, 2011

You talk about using twitter. the governator made a splash with this photo of his oatmeal breakfast. Who knew that the smiley face he put in the middle with raisins et al, had more to do with his extra curricular activities than the excellence of oatmeal. Or did it?

http://filmdrunk.uproxx.com/2009/10/arnold-schwarzeneggers-oatmeal

Inquiring minds want to know. Was it organic? Or was he? Probably not.

The oatmeal of choice for Arnold Schwarzenegger long before he was elected Governor of California, and currently being served at the Governor’s residence, is Christine and Rob’s organic, slow-toasted, thick-cut oatmeal (www.christineandrobs.com). Served on Hollywood movie sets for over eight years and with a star clientele list that includes Jamie Lee Curtis, Clint Eastwood, and Danny DeVito, Christine and Rob’s Oatmeal is the creation of Christine and Rob Bartell of Stayton, Oregon and features the family’s generations-old recipe.

“We all know that kids do better in school, educationally and physically, when given the proper nutrition at breakfast,” notes Rob Bartell, founder of Christine & Rob’s Oatmeal. “It is the same for adults. Start your day right with a healthy, well-balanced meal and you can feel the difference all day. Christine and I believe that more people should do this, especially kids.” Bartell’s family continues the tradition of their grandfather, James T. Roberts, who was considered by the family to be a true oatmeal connoisseur and lived to be over 100 years old, by maintaining that “the good you expect to get out of your body depends on what you put into it.”

The governator may be an oatmealaholic, and he may live to be a hundred but I bet that smile has been wiped off his face. ha.

About Linda Eckhardt

Linda West Eckhardt, is an award winning journalist, food writer, and nutritionist. Her more than 20 cookbooks have garnered prizes including the James Beard prize for the best cookbook for a text she wrote with her daughter, Katherine West DeFoyd, entitled Entertaining 101, Doubleday. Their follow-up book, Stylish One Dish Dinners, Doubleday, was also nominated for a James Beard prize. Their next book, The High Protein Cookbook, Clarkson Potter, remains a best seller after 12 years. That book was designed to accompany low carb diet plans. Her ground-breaking book, Bread in Half The Time, Broadway Books, was named the Best Cookbook in America by the prestigious IACP, The Julia Child award. Her award winning radio work with Jennifer English, for a national show on the Food and Wine radio network, was nominated for a James Beard Prize for a show called, “I Know What You Ate Last Summer.”