Dear Rabbi, A friend and I were wondering about the following: We can’t eat bread for medical reasons, so is it possible to wash, and then say over oatmeal (made into a kugel especially for this purpose) either borei minei hamizunot or ha-kol? Then, is it possible to bensch? Thanks, Frieda

On oatmeal (even Kugel) one says Mezonot and Al Hamichya. But if the oatmeal is made into bread and looks like bread, if eaten as a meal one should wash, make Hamotzi and bench at the end of the meal. Rabbi Yitzchak Grinblat