instant porridge-make it yourself?

Meadows

23rdspiral wrote: »

I was reading a story set in the countryside 50yrs ago where the family ate porridge in winter and in the summer they just had 'oats'. They would measure out a portion of porridge oats, add normal cold milk, then go feed the cows or whatever... when they came back they ate it with honey or just on its own!

I quite often have cold oats soaked overnight for my breakfast, I do 30g oats, 50ml milk, 125g natural yogurt. Mix up leave overnight in the fridge and then serve over sliced banana, berries or soft fruit (you can also sprinkle over dried fruit or nuts). You can also drizzle over honey, maple syrup etc. (You can slice the banana and pour the oat mix over the top and leave all in the fridge for the next day as well, or add the dried fruit mixed in - this swells and the fruit becomes plump and juicy).

nicksas2001

3 x heaped desert spoons (39g) of superfast oats
(grind 1 spoonful to a powder. This helps to thicken the porridge)
1 x heaped desert spoon (9g) of skimmed milk powder
1 x level tsp (5g) sugar
170ml boiling water

Mix dry ingredients together in a cup.
Add the boiling water and stir thoroughly.
Wait one minute.
Stir again and serve.

I bought an instant porridge tub from Aldi.
Harvest Morn original instant oats.
They cost 49p each.
The contents weigh 53g.
The ingredients say; oat flakes (73%), skimmed milk
Powder, sugar.
It tells you to fill to the line with boiling water
(approx. 170ml).
If you empty the tub completely and fill water up to
The line, it takes 240ml. By using this you can use a
Different tub and draw a line onto it.
I reuse the same tub that the porridge came in and
I've found that large yoghurt carton lids fit the tubs
Perfectly.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Enough of this talk about some quackers way of wasting money on plasticised oats. The ones in them packages had other bits than oats in them. They are, in the word of BoP carp.
Proper oats are milled. Wholesome and do not require blitzing in some mechanised blender. I get mine every morning, thanks to Ms Whack. Fresh every year, from Alford Mill, a 5kg sack. Lasts until March. Just add water and they are done in the time it takes to boil the kettle for they glue version.
With Porage, it is meant to be ruff. Now shiver yer timbers and eat proper! If you are sweet toofed, and decent seeded raspberry jam

Soworried

Bumping this to get some ideas from you all hopefully

I am trying to save money so I am finding cheap ideas that also use up my stores.
This thread has been such a good read and I am now going to take these to work with me most days.
I took them today with a handful of raisins in. I have what seems to be an unlimited supply of dried fruit of one type or another.

Also a poster on the grocery challenge thread suggested cinnamon which I will take tomorrow.

Any other ideas or variations?

WantToBeSE

Peanut butter and jam
Banana and cinnamon/nutmeg
Marmalade
Cocoa powder and nutmeg

Thise are some of the combinations that we use.

Soworried

WantToBeSE wrote: »

Peanut butter and jam
Banana and cinnamon/nutmeg
Marmalade
Cocoa powder and nutmeg

Thise are some of the combinations that we use.

Banana and cinnamon sounds lovely, I always just put cinnamon with apples or rhubarb for some reason.

Cocoa powder and nutmeg sounds nice for a choccy kick as well :T

field0014

I did this the first time when i was ill and couldn't be ask to eat any solid food and couldn't be bothered to cook anything. I thought to myself if it doesn't work or taste good ill just force it down and at least I've eaten something. When i discovered you could do this and realised it tastes normal I've been doing this ever since. I've saved soo much money doing this not having to buy these instant porridge pots.

Here's how i do it:
So i do this with just NORMAL Scott's Oats at home and Quaker Oats at work because tescos near my work don't sell Scotch Oats.
1. Boil the kettle.
2. Pour the boiled water into a bowl of oats and stir/mix the water and oats so there are no dry pockets and leave it to sit for 2 mins.
3. after the 2 mins if the porridge is too think simply add more water ALSO if your super hungry and its too hot and you want to eat immediately add cold water.
4. add water ever flavouring you like fruits, jam. I drench mine in Honey
5.DONE

lindens

Just bumping this up after I too have become addicted to the instant porridge pots, but not the price

welshmoneylover

I put a heap of porridge oats in a bowl with some chia seeds and cinnamon, cover with hot water out of the kettle, leave for 5 mins and hey presto a hot breakfast with no cooking!

JIL

Sorry for bumping this thread.
I have made the mortgage free in three instant porridge.
I remember it was 90g sugar, 90g of skimmed milk, a pinch of salt.

Oats baked in the oven then, 2/3rds were blended. But I cannot remember the measurement of oats?

Can anyone help. I am guessing it was 300g.
I joined Pinterest but I can see reference to it but no recipe. MFin3 website is currently down and has been for a while so appreciate any help.

Thankyou.