Chewy Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

2 cups flour
1 1/2 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. salt
1 1/2 cup shortening or 3 sticks of butter, room temperature
3-4 cups uncooked oats (start out with 3 cups then add more or less depending on consistency
2 cups sugar
2/3 cups brown sugar
3 eggs
1 tsp. vanilla
1 pkg. semi-sweet chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Cream shortening/margarine and sugars. Beat in eggs and vanilla. Sift dry ingredients together then add to the wet ingredients. Stir in oats, adjust amount of oats to how wet or dry the dough is. Fold in chocolate chips. Bake on greased cookie sheet 12-15 minutes. Let cookies cool 5 minutes before removing from cookie sheet.

Yields about 5 dozen medium sized cookies.