Home made Ready Brek?!

WifeofDJFLP

My kids won't eat traditional, made with oats that cost 20p porridge, but will eat Ready Brek.

As I recall the ingredients of Ready Brek are

Oats
Chalk :rolleyes:
Some vitamins

So do you think that if I put some normal cheap porridge oats in my food processor and blitz them till they're a dust-like consistency that I'll have Ready Brek?!

I suppose I could also add some chalk though I only have blue pink and yellow and that would be a giveaway.

WifeofDJFLP
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Magentasue

I would hold out and give them the real stuff! My kids eat it neat but I can only eat it with demerera sugar. One day, when son1 was ill and not eating, I shared the demerera sugar secret but, somehow, the others haven't noticed.

Otherwise, how about just blitzing oats and trying it? You could always put them in some crumble if it doesn't work.

sandraroffey

CHALK?????? IN READY BREK??? MINE NEVER ATE IT, SO I NEVER HAD CAUSE TO READ THE LABEL BUT jeeeeez!

moanymoany

It always seemed to me to have the consistency of wallpaper paste!

I would try the whizzing up thing.

princess_loki

i would be interested in the outcome of your experiments... my oh only likes ready brek :rotfl: . i have tried oats so simple or something similar but even though that less grainy than traditional porridge he still does not like it :eek: .

i hate hate hate ready brek so refuse to buy it - especially when we have milk and normal porridge oats in the house!!!

let me know how you get on! :A

annie-c

I have blitzed porridge oats in the blender to make 'lighter' texture porridge. I used a tip by someone on here to make the equivalent of the sachet stuff -oats so simple. Basically to make that you blend half down to a finer consistency and mix it with the full oats to get the 'mid-way' consistency. That was when I was a newbie to healthy eating, I prefer proper porridge now.

But I assume you could just blend down the oats the whole way for Ready Brek. Worth a go!

However, unless you buy the real thing you know your kids won't get the orange aura around them on the way to school and everyone will know you have failed them as a parent.....

WifeofDJFLP

Ok no it doesn't work, the texture is just all wrong, maybe the chalk is important :rolleyes:

ariba10

One way to make porridge smoother is to soak it in milk ( or whatever you use ) overnight in the container you are going to cook it in.

It will make a difference.

annie123

from their web site:ready brek ingredients: Wholegrain Rolled Oats (60%), Wholegrain Oat Flour

sainsburys hot oat cereal is the same but cheaper:Wholegrain Rolled Oats (60%), Wholegrain Oat Flour

hth

frazzmunch

i do it regularly!!....i use normal porridge oats, add milk, microwave for a minute or so until it is quite warm, stir, blitz in blender for a few seconds (don't overdo it or the oats will be reduced to flour and you will think you are eating glue!!) then pour back into bowl and microwave until hot....:D lovely!!

suep

I've eaten the real stuff for years and my teenage DD has never eaten, in fact she hardly ever eats breakfast and so I was surprised this morning when she asked if Id make a double portion so she could try some. She ate most of it but said it was nasty stuff and she preferred ready Brek instead even though I cant remember ever buying it before.
I did buy some today in the hope that she will start having breakfast again, if not its going in crumble.
sue